Columbia B-2526 (EP)
Issued in the ‘Hall of Fame’ Series
Issued 1957 (Date unknown)
Side 1:
You Belong to Me
Issued before on Columbia 39811 (Single, August 1952), Columbia B-1649 (EP 'Jo Stafford Spotlite', April 1953),
and on Columbia 4-50008 (Single, September 1954)
Matrix No. RHCO 10204 * Recorded 24th June 1952
Shrimp Boats
with the Norman Luboff Choir
Issued before on Columbia 39581 (Single, October 1951), Columbia CL-6268 (Album
'A Musical Portrait Of New Orleans', August 1953), and on CL-578 (re-issue of the Album
'A Musical Portrait Of New Orleans', 9th August 1954)
Matrix No. RHCO 4554 * Recorded 18th July 1951
Side 2:
Keep It a Secret
Issued before on Columbia 39891 (Single, December 1952), Columbia B-1649 (EP 'Jo Stafford Spotlite', April 1953),
and on Columbia 4-50008 (Single, September 1954)
Matrix No. RHCO 10316 * Recorded 10th October 1952
Jambalaya
with the Norman Luboff Choir
Issued before on Columbia 39838 (Single, September 1952), Columbia B-1649 (EP 'Jo Stafford Spotlite', April 1953), Columbia CL-6268 (Album 'A Musical Portrait Of New Orleans', August 1953), Columbia CL-578 (re-issue of the album 'A Musical Portrait of New Orleans', 9th August 1954), and on Columbia 4-50039 (Single, September 1954)
Matrix No. RHCO 10260 * Recorded 20th July 1952
NOTES
In 1954 and 1955, Columbia’s Hall of Fame series was a series of 45 rpm singles. It was re-launched, in the fall of 1957,
as a series of EP’s. One of the first new Hall of Fame discs was Jo Stafford’s EP with catalog number B-2526.
I am not perfectly sure about its date of issue. The re-launch of the Hall of Fame series was announced at the end of July, 1957. The first mentioning of this EP I found was in a record store advertisement printed in the September 11, 1957 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This means it must have been issued early in September, maybe at the end of August. Do you have more specific information about the date of issue?
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This EP is sometimes referred to as ‘You Belong To Me’ (both in contemporary ads and on record collectors’ websites). Officially, however, the EP did not have a title.
The label of this disc says Ms Stafford is accompanied by ‘P. Weston and his Music from Hollywood’. But when the four tracks were recorded in 1951/1952, the orchestra went under the less glamorous name ‘Paul Weston and his Orchestra’.