DAY BY
DAY
JO
STAFFORD
SONGWRITERS: SAMMY CAHN; PAUL WESTON & ALEX
STORDAHL
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: YOU BELONG TO ME
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1989
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917–July
16, 2008) was an American traditional
pop music singer and occasional actress, whose
career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for
the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become na
opera singer before
following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide
record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to
Me" topped the charts in the United States and
United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the
first by a female artist to do so.
Born in remote oil rich Coalinga,
California, near Bakersfield in the San
Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she
joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters,
who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938,
while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth
Century Fox's production of Alexander's
Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members
of the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired
them in 1939 to perform back-up vocals for his orchestra.
In
addition to her recordings with the Pied Pipers, Stafford featured in solo
performances for Dorsey. After leaving the group in 1944,
she recorded a series of pop standards for Capitol Records and Columbia Records. Many of
her recordings were backed by the orchestra of Paul Weston.
She also performed duets with Gordon MacRae and Frankie Laine. Her
work with the United
Service Organizations giving concerts
for soldiers during World War II earned her the nickname "G.I. Jo". Starting in 1945,
Stafford was a regular host of the National Broadcasting Company(NBC)
radio series The
Chesterfield Supper Club and later
appeared in television specials—including two series called The Jo Stafford
Show, in 1954 in the U.S. and in 1961 in the UK.
Stafford
married twice, first in 1937 to musician John Huddleston (the couple divorced
in 1943), then in 1952 to Paul Weston, with whom she had two children. She
and Weston developed a comedy routine in which they assumed the identity of an
incompetent lounge act named Jonathan and
Darlene Edwards, parodying well-known songs. The act proved popular at parties
and among the wider public when the couple released an album as the Edwardses
in 1957. In 1961, the álbum Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris won Stafford her only Grammy Award for Best Comedy
Album, and was the first commercially successful
parody album. Stafford
largely retired as a performer in the mid-1960s, but continued in the music
business. She had a brief resurgence in popularity in the late
1970s when she recorded a cover of the Bee Gees hit, "Stayin' Alive"
as Darlene Edwards. In the 1990s, she began re-releasing some of her material
through Corinthian Records,
a label founded by Weston. She died in 2008 in Century City,
Los Angeles, and is interred with Weston at Holy Cross
Cemetery, Culver City. Her work in radio, television,
and music is recognized by three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"Day by Day" is a popular song with
music by Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Chart versions in 1946 were by
Frank Sinatra (recorded on August 22, 1945, and released in January 1946); Jo
Stafford; Les Brown; and Bing Crosby with Mel Tormé and His Mel-Tones.
Day by day
I'm falling more in love with you
And day by day
My love seems to grow
There isn't any end to my devotion
It's deeper, dear, by far than any ocean
I find that day by
day
You're making all my dreams come true
So come what may
I want you to know
I'm yours alone
Cause I'm in love to stay
As we go through the years
Day by day
I'm yours alone
Cause I'm in love to stay
As we go through the years
Day by day.
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