Music & Music Artists

Jo Stafford, 90, an exceptionally versatile chorus-boy who worked with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers and shared a Grammy Award with her conductor-husband destined for their burlesque of a tone-hard of hearing sofa act, died July 16 at her home in Century City, Calif. She had congestive heart decline. canary Judy Collins once said Ms. Stafford's poignant interpretation of society ballads was focal to her own career in tribe music. Although she made specific acclaimed folk recordings, Ms. Stafford was mostly known as a pop diva with a affable, clear voice that music critic Terry Teachout called "rhythmically fluid without eternally sounding self-consciously 'jazzy.' " From 1944 to 1954, Ms. Stafford placed virtually 75 songs in the pop charts as a entertainer. She was especially familiarly-regarded her versions of bang ballads including " You Belong to Me," " alter b transfer Love to Me," " Autumn Leaves" and "All the Things You Are...