“You Belong To Me” by Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me" is the most popular recording of a 1952 ballad, and her version went to number one in both America and Britain. The song began life as "Hurry Home to Me", written almost entirely by Chilton Price, a songwriting librarian at WAVE Radio in Louisville, who pictured it as an American woman calling out to a sweetheart stationed overseas during World War II.

Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart took co-writing credit, largely for pushing the song, though they did tweak its music and words, gave it the new title and loosened it from the war into a song for any pair of lovers kept apart. Price had already worked the same way with the two men on her hit "Slow Poke". Stafford takes the vocal solo, and the whole thing floats on her poise.

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