Autumn in New York/Starring Jo Stafford (1997)

About this title: Autumn in New York/Starring Jo Stafford, a Capitol/EMI twofer collection released in 1997, includes 24 tracks of exceptional material by one of vocal music's underrated performers. Though the dates on the CD list Autumn in New York and Starring Jo Stafford as originally 1955 LP releases, it's much more likely from the artwork and material that these are 78-rpm catalogue sets from at least several years earlier. On the first, Stafford reprises 12 hits from Broadway shows, led by the title song. Fortunately, there's plenty of the dreamy, inspirational material she usually excelled at, including ... read more

Tracks:

1. Autumn in New York [Duke]
2. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes [Kern/Harbach]
3. Haunted Heart [Dietz/Schwartz]
4. If I Loved You [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
5. In the Still of the Night [Porter]
6. Some Enchanted Evening [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
7. Just One of Those Things [Porter]
8. Almost Like Being in Love [Loewe/Lerner]
9. Make Believe [Kern/Hammerstein]
10. Through the Years [Youmans/Heyman]
11. The Best Things in Life Are Free [Brown/DeSylva/Hende]
12. Sometimes I'm Happy [Youmans/Caesar]
13. Serenade of the Bells [Goodhart/Twomey]
14. On the Alamo [Jones/Kahn]
15. No Other Love [Russell/Weston]
16. Red River Valley [Weston]
17. Ivy [Carmichael]
18. Fools Rush In [Bloom/Mercer]
19. A Sunday Kind of Love [Belle/Leonard/Prima]
20. The Gentleman Is a Dope [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
21. Symphony [Alstone/Lawrence/Ta]
22. Tumbling Tumbleweeds [Nolan]
23. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song [Berlin]
24. Day by Day [Cahn/Stordahl/Westo]

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