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I'll Be Seeing You (Jo Stafford album) While "shopping" for covers for your new pages, I ran into an auction for her I'll Be Seeing You 1959 album. A link for a 1983 Japanese re-release of it gave the track listings. Snagged a cover for Joyful Holiday, but still looking for the others. Have seen the 1993 Greatest Hits cover, but every image I've seen so far is too dark; her face is almost obscured. Hoping to see a lighter copy before uploading an image for this. I think you will want to have a look at this too. Shows some of her 1961 shows on tape along with what looks to be an apparent clip from (probably) a US television show she was on in 1960. Am not sure if other episodes were recorded like this also. We hope (talk) 02:38, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My Heart's in the Highlands grabbed another one. :-) We hope (talk) 03:07, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, thanks for that, I'll have to get hold of a copy. Thanks for the uploads as well. I'll write a few more this afternoon. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 14:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Justine Thornton, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that as a teenager, Justine Thornton, the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:05, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

As of now, we are missing only 3 covers- Songs of Faith, Songs for Sunday Evening and 16 Most Requested Songs for the articles now online. But in the meantime, I've learned that both Jo Stafford and Paul Weston went from Capitol to Dot Records in the late 1960s. (Have not yet been able to enter & ref the information.) So this means there are Dot albums out there also. Didn't have any reference(s) that talked about their being at Dot until now. We hope (talk) 21:48, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks for searching them out. I'll create some more articles in the next couple of days or so. Good work finding the Dot Records info. I know she retired in the mid-60s, but given the number of compilations released in recent years, it would seem odd if there'd been virtually nothing through the late 60s and 70s, so there must be a few titles on that label. TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:27, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would it help if I left some Billboard links on your talk page? Got all of this from Billboard re: Dot. There are some issues with trade ads in them which do list at least some of the albums. Not sure what kind of luck there will be for covers unless they were re-released by another company later on, but there is at least some start to information about the Dot albums. (Most of my day was taken by an A/V issue. It was fine early this morning, but then it notified that it couldn't update. Whatever happened there affected the rest of the company's website too, so I couldn't go to their help forum to find out if the problem was more wide-spread than me. Did a Google search on the company's name and had to get the information from Twitter re: problem and the resolution.) We hope (talk)

I hope everything's working ok now. The Billboard site would be very useful as most of the information I got was from CMT.com, which is obviously incomplete. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Billboard copies come from Google Books-Billboard opened their archives to Google.
Stafford Dot Album/signing Billboard 23 October 1965.

Dot ad Do I Hear a Waltz? 25 June 1966.

Album Tracks listed, but cover is not so good.

Album This is a good cover for us. :)

Muntz Stereo Pak ad This is Jo Stafford (Dot) Billboard 19 November 1966.

Album Track listing can be read by enlarging cover photo. Cover not really good for us, I think, due to the angle it's shot at. I can try cutting it and see what happens, though.

Stafford to Re-Do Folk Songs at Capitol. So this tells us the Capitol version was a totally new set of recordings. Billboard 13 February 1961.

At the Supper Club Part III Due out in June.

I think after they left Dot (don't have a year for it), this is when he founded Corinthian. We hope (talk) 00:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 3rd year of editing. :) and thanks! Mokapantages (talk) 20:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]