Bock The Robber

Jo Stafford RIP

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008

The great Jo Stafford died last week

Here’s Whispering Hope with Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae.

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8 Responses to “Jo Stafford RIP”

  1. Audrey
    July 28th, 2008

    bock must be old.. he knows all these old people! :)

  2. Bock
    July 29th, 2008

    That’s right. I knew Mozart too.

  3. snookertony
    July 29th, 2008

    Jo Stafford, Mozart and Leonard Cohen on the one planet.
    I might stay.

  4. Never mind the bollix
    July 29th, 2008

    Jo Stafford, one of the very few female singers that Frank Sinatra actually stopped and listened to. 90 was a good innings.

  5. Hoof
    July 29th, 2008

    That song was one of my late parents favourites, remember they’d sing “Whispering Hope” together at parties in the house decades back, and that LP seemed to be playing every time we’d get in from school.

    Brought a lump to my throat listening to it again for the first time in years, thanks for that Bock, and RIP Jo Stafford.

  6. Nora
    July 29th, 2008

    That took me back years. I’d never have thought of looking for it on YouTube but there’s a massive collection there now.
    My uncle was a traditional fiddler who made 78 rpm records in the States years ago. He used to play Whispering Hope on the fiddle sometimes, and it was sung in our house too when I was little. When the American relatives arrived every summer, there was music almost every night. One summer I had to sleep in the garage with my mother, as there were no beds left. I remember the spiders and being afraid to put my bare feet on the floor. But god, the music was great …

  7. mary
    July 29th, 2008

    Now I am not generally a sentimental woman but you wouldn’t believe what that stirred in me!
    When I was a young girl I used to sing that with my mother, she playing the piano.
    Between us we had a great selection of songs and now wish I hadn’t thrown the piles of sheet music after she died.

  8. savannah
    July 29th, 2008

    lovely, sugar…may she rest in peace.

    xoxo

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