''The Jo Stafford Show'' is a 15-minute musical

variety program Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compèr ...

which aired on

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in prime time in the 1954–1955 television season. Paul Weston wrote a special theme song for the show. Television show tickets Jo Stafford 1954

The show had the same cast of regular performers Stafford worked with during her ''

Chesterfield Supper Club ''The Chesterfield Supper Club'' is an NBC Radio musical variety program (1944–1950), which was also telecast by NBC Television (1948–1950). Radio ''The Chesterfield Supper Club'' began on December 11, 1944, as a 15-minute radio program, a ...

'' shows from Hollywood. Paul Weston and his Orchestra and the Starlighters provided the music and vocal accompaniments on the television show just as they had done on Stafford's hosted "Supper Club" radio programs. The television program was done live. During the year it aired, an episode featured loss of her skirt on one show while singing "

Let Me Go, Lover! "Let Me Go, Lover!", a popular song, was written by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill, a pen name used by Fred Wise, Kathleen Twomey, and Ben Weisman. It is based on an earlier song called " Let Me Go, Devil", about alcoholism. Background "Let ...

". One of the cast members tripped, and as he fell, a button on his coat caught in Stafford's costume. Her skirt falling along with the actor, Stafford tried holding onto it while singing "Let me go". The decision to end Stafford's television program was not hers, but that of

. At the time of the cancellation, the show's sponsor, Gold Seal Company, contemplated moving the Stafford program to

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. The loss of the television show was another factor in Stafford's move from

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, owned by CBS, back to

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, where she had her first solo recording contract. Stafford received an

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nomination in 1955 as Best Female Singer for her work on the program.

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