Jo Elizabeth Stafford, the third of four sisters, was born November 12, 1917 on a tract of land known as "Lease 35" in Coalinga,California. Her mother, Anna York Stafford,a distant cousin of World War ...

Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of GIs during World War II and whose recordings made the pop music charts dozens of times in the 1950s, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at her home ...

In 1955, Columbia Records presented Jo Stafford with a diamond-studded disc to mark her selling 25 million records for the label. Ironically, this marked the peak of her career, as she had only ...

Jo Stafford, who died Wednesday at 90, was a recording artist and big band vocalist who was among the most adored female singers of her generation, whether crooning a classic or cutting up with ...

Jo Stafford, 90, an exceptionally versatile singer who worked with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers and shared a Grammy Award with her conductor-husband for their parody of a tone-deaf ...

Famed pop singer Jo Stafford has died of congestive heart failure in her Century City, Calif., home, her family said. She was 90. Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an ...

Jo Stafford, who died on Wednesday aged 90, not only had one of the most pure, wide-ranging voices in American popular song – adored by wartime servicemen, who dubbed her GI Jo – but also the ability ...