Portrait Edition (1994)

About this title: For over 30 years, Jo Stafford was one of America's top middle-of-the-road pop singers, admired for her ability to always sing in tune and to uplift every lyric she interpreted while actually singing very straight. This three-CD retrospective, which was released in 1994, has 76 selections covering a 40-year period, with most of the numbers dating from the 1940s and '50s. On the minus side, the music is not programmed in chronological order, and the complete personnel is not given, but since Stafford's style was unchanged through the years and she tended to be the main star of her records ... read more

Tracks:

1. Little Man With a Candy Cigar [Dennis/Kilduff]
2. Haunted Heart [Dietz/Schwartz]
3. If [Hargreaves/Damerell]
4. In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This) [Lewis/Young/Wayne]
5. April and You [Roberts/Frisch]
6. Where Are You? [Kahn/Rinker]
7. The Trolley Song [Martin/Blaine]
8. I'll Remember April [Raye/DePaul/Johnsto]
9. Blues in the Night [Mercer/Arlen]
10. Floatin' Down to Cotton Town [Klickmann/Weisslede]
11. Every Night When the Sun Goes In [Traditional]
12. The Night We Called It a Day [Adair/Dennis]
13. The Gentleman Is a Dope [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
14. My Darling, My Darling [Loesser]
15. Young and Foolish [Horwitt/Hague]
16. Tomorrow Mountain [Latouche/Ellington]
17. Peace in the Valley [Dorsey]
18. Teardrops from My Eyes [Toombs]
19. Dancing in the Dark [Dietz/Schwartz]
20. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
21. Gypsy in My Soul [Jaffe/Boland]
22. Imagination [Burke/VanHeusen]
23. If I Were a Bell [Loesser]
24. No Other Love [Russell/Weston]
25. You're Blasé [Sievier/Hamilton]
26. You and Your Love [Green/Mercer]
27. As I Love You [Livingston/Evans]
28. Teach Me Tonight [Cahn/DePaul]
29. When April Comes Again [Weston/Schaefer]
30. St. Louis Blues [Handy]
31. Good Nite [Jeffers/Phillips/Be]
32. Make the Man Love Me [Fields/Schwartz]
33. Warm All Over [Loesser]
34. The Best Things in Life Are Free [DeSylva/Brown/Hende]
35. One [Sondheim/Bernstein]
36. These Foolish Things [Link/Marvell/Strach]
37. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening [Mercer/Carmichael]
38. The Nearness of You [Washington/Carmicha]
39. Smoking My Sad Cigarette [George/Walker]
40. The Party's Over [Styne/Comden/Green]
41. The Folks Who Live on the Hill [Kern/Hammerstein]
42. A Thought in My Heart [Calder]
43. Yes, Indeed! [Oliver]
44. I'm Your Girl [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
45. When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love [Harburg/Lane]
46. Whispering Hope [Hawthorne]
47. Shenandoah [Traditional]
48. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry? [Donaldson/Lyman]
49. I'll Be Seeing You [Kahal/Fain]
50. Candy [David/Whitney/Krame]
51. The Last Time I Saw Paris [Kern/Hammerstein]
52. All the Things You Are [Kern/Hammerstein]
53. If I Loved You [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
54. What Is This Thing Called Love? [Porter]
55. Come Rain or Come Shine [Mercer/Arlen]
56. With These Hands [Davis/Silver]
57. Use Your Imagination [Porter]
58. For You [Burke/Dubin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.