Trivia

She was a favorite singer of actor William Powell who collected everyone of her albums.

Fellow jazz singer Billie Holiday once said in an interview that Stafford was her favorite music artist because she found her to be very ladylike.

Member of The Pied Pipers from 1938-1944.

From 1944-1957, she had 83 records on Billboard's pop music charts as a solo artist.

Her first husband was The Pied Pipers singer John Huddleston.

Despite her brief time as a solo artist (she ended her career in the 1960s), she sold more than 25 million records.

She was a favorite singer of soldiers in the United States Army during World War II. Servicemen affectionately called her "G.I. Jo".

The only Grammy Award she won was as her off-key singing alter-ego Darlene Edwards when she won "Best Comedy Album" (1960).

Sang in The Stafford Sisters, a vocal sister trio with her two older siblings, Pauline Stafford and Christine Stafford.

Jo Elizabeth Stafford passed away on July 16, 2008, four months away from what would have been her 91st birthday on November 12.

1960 Grammy Award winner (as Darlene Edwards) in Best Comedy Performance-Musical category for "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards In Paris" with husband Paul Weston (as Jonathan Edwards).

Had two children with second husband Paul Weston. Tim Weston became a musician and record producer, and Amy Weston became a session singer.

Began her solo career after leaving the Dorsey Orchestra (1942) with the new Capitol Records label. She later moved to Columbia Records (1950) and then back to Capitol Records (1961).

Her parents were Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna (York) Stafford. The family moved to Long Beach, California when she was young and where she had five years of classical voice training.

The Pied Pipers went from an octet to a quartet once they began working with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (1939).

She was awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1625 Vine Street; for Radio at 1709 Vine Street; and for Television at 7270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

She was a lifelong Democrat who supported the presidency of John F. Kennedy and she later performed for President Kennedy at a dinner in his honor given by the Southern California Democratic Committee.

Following her death, she was interred with her second husband Paul Weston at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.