Posted by
Jay Adler Comment on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:37:07 PM
I would rather hear a kind mention of one of my favorite singers, recently deceased, Jo Stafford. One of the few vocalists with perfect pitch and clarity, she was an American favorite as she wowed her audiences back in the days of the Sputnik, I remember Jo singing You Belong to me. There is no recording artist today that can come within a country mile of her jazz vocalist ability. I bring her up because besides selling 25 million records at the inception of CBS Records and being an American sweetheart loved by our troops, the media did not really acknowledge her properly in my opinion when she died recently at the age of 90. If President Obama had to go nostalgia, I would have rather he said a few sentences about Jo Stafford, then bring up the Soviet Union. I even remember the Soviets sending up a chimp all wired up into outer space. If Obama was going to go Sputnik, why not chimp or even roaches, I think they went up and came back alive in a show of solidarity. Bobby Short was a legend at the Carlyle. How about that Dino and Jerry? I prefer American success stories.
Jay R