Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent cl
Picture of Stafford from the New York Sunday News, September 21, 1947
The singing Stafford Sisters in 1941
The Pied Pipers in 1944: Pictured here are Charles Lowry, Jo Stafford, Clark Yocum, and John Huddleston.
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, television personality, author, and talk show host. Born in Winchester, Tennessee and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she rose to prominence as a recording
Jo Stafford
…one of the first groups signed to Mercer's new label, Capitol Records, which was founded in 1942. Weston, who left Dorsey's band in 1940 to work with Dinah Shore, became music director at Capitol. While Stafford was still working for Dorsey, Johnny Mercer told her, "Some day I'm going to have my own record…
Shore as Julia Sanderson in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Shore (left) and Gail Patrick in the CBS Radio studio at a rehearsal for The Screen Guild Theater (1945)
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan with a group at NBC's 1982 taping of its "Christmas in Washington" special in the Pension Building in Washington, D.C. Left to right: NBC News anchor Roger Mudd, CBS News reporter Eric Sevareid, Dinah Shore, actress Diahann Carroll, actor and musician John Schneider, President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, actor Ben Vereen, and entertainer Debby Boone.