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...night last week, Songstress Jo Stafford walked quietly on to the stage of a Hollywood recording studio, said hello to the band musicians, gave her husband-Bandleader Paul Weston-a quick kiss and was ready to go to work. After a run-through of one chorus to warm up, she went over to the microphone, got the nod from the control room and started singing...
Tonight We're Setting the Woods on Fire (Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine; Columbia). Songstress Stafford throws her bestselling voice behind two trends: 1) a duet with another popular singer, and 2) a hillbilly song. This one is a razzmatazz spoof on a pair of country folk on their way to a Saturday night spree. It is fast and loud, and its whipcracking arrangement gives it a fine juke-box flavor...
...late Sir Stafford Cripps's one-page will was filed for probate in Gloucester, England. The onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer left an estate of $42,380 to his widow and a three-bedroom cottage to his daughter, Diana...
...Desire Me (Jo Stafford; Columbia LP). Songstress Stafford's voice is warmer than ever and just as true. Most of her eight numbers (I'm in the Mood for Love, Something to Remember You By, etc.) are lugubriously slow; Blue Moon and September in the Rain have more bounce...
Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...