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Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows gathers the great autumn 1956 session that seemed to crystalize all of Vaughan's technical and stylistic resources, propelling the legendary Miss Sassy into the mainstream spotlight her talent so richly deserved. Vaughan was simply one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, with an astonishing range that ranged from girlish soprano to lush, surreal baritone (and in some odd quirk of nature, her range grew wider and deeper as she entered her autumnal years). The formula for her growing acceptance among the mainstream pop audience was simple and common enough. It wed Vaughan's dark, sultry voice to lush, romantic orchestra and brass arrangements (mainly by Hal Mooney). In lesser hands, such an approach might have dated rather badly, but listen to the way Vaughan comes out of the verse on "Bewitched," the manner in which she extends and elasticizes the phrase "I-I-I-I'm wild again..." with her uniquely expressive vibrato, and bask in the presence of a master of jazz harmony and rhythm.
Such little details abound here. On an epic "Dancing in the Dark," Vaughan hits the word "dancing" with a broad vibrato that seems to key the arrangement's sense of swing, building to an operatic crescendo. On a wonderful "September Song," her subtleties of pitch convey the season's changing colors; and, during a turnaround which hinges on a descending "and...," she demonstrates remarkable harmonic grace, suggesting the twisting, wistful dance of a falling leaf with vocal leaps like the bowed double stops of a cello.
© Rovi Staff /TiVo
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Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
CHARLES TOBIAS, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - SAM H. STEPT, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney, Conductor - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1957 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
FRANK LOESSER, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ray Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Buddy DeSylva, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Hal Mooney, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Mooney and His Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Burton Lane, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Howard Dietz, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Schwartz, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kurt Weill, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Maxwell Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kurt Weill, Composer - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Maxwell Anderson, Author - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pete Candoli, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - John Best, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, Author - Paul Shure, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Eleanor Slatkin, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Mondragon, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harry Klee, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Alvin Dinkin, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Ronnie Lang, Alto Saxophone, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Felix Slatkin, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Bluestone, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Nathan Ross, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Bunker, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Israel Baker, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Mooney, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Murray McEachern, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Kusby, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Victor Arno, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - George Roberts, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Sosson, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Dan Lube, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Cy Bernard, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Justin Gordon, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Robyn, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Eudice Shapiro, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Beach, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra - Anne Mason, Harp, AssociatedPerformer - George Greeley, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mannie Klein, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Randall Miller, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Gill, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Champ Webb, Woodwinds, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerome Kern, Composer - Quincy Jones, Producer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Conductor - Bob Shad, Producer - Hal Mooney and His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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John Golden, ComposerLyricist - Quincy Jones, Producer - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Conductor - Bob Shad, Producer - Hal Mooney and His Orchestra, Orchestra - Raymond Hubbell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sammy Fain, ComposerLyricist - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney Orchestra, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kurt Weill, Author - George Gershwin, Composer - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harry Warren, ComposerLyricist - Mort Dixon, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Joe Young, ComposerLyricist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Kay Swift, ComposerLyricist - Paul James, ComposerLyricist - Bob Shad, Producer - Harold Mooney And His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sammy Fain, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Conductor - Bob Shad, Producer - G. Marion, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney's Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney's Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Leonard Bernstein, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Adolph Green, ComposerLyricist - Betty Comden, ComposerLyricist - Hal Mooney, Conductor
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - GEORGE FORREST, ComposerLyricist - Bob Shad, Producer - Robert Craig Bob Wright, ComposerLyricist - Don Costa Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1954 UMG Recordings, Inc.
GEORGE DAVID WEISS, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Bock, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - Hugo Peretti Orchestra, Orchestra - Larry Holofcenter, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1955 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Bob Shad, Producer - David Carroll Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Sarah Vaughan, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Hal Mooney and His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows gathers the great autumn 1956 session that seemed to crystalize all of Vaughan's technical and stylistic resources, propelling the legendary Miss Sassy into the mainstream spotlight her talent so richly deserved. Vaughan was simply one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, with an astonishing range that ranged from girlish soprano to lush, surreal baritone (and in some odd quirk of nature, her range grew wider and deeper as she entered her autumnal years). The formula for her growing acceptance among the mainstream pop audience was simple and common enough. It wed Vaughan's dark, sultry voice to lush, romantic orchestra and brass arrangements (mainly by Hal Mooney). In lesser hands, such an approach might have dated rather badly, but listen to the way Vaughan comes out of the verse on "Bewitched," the manner in which she extends and elasticizes the phrase "I-I-I-I'm wild again..." with her uniquely expressive vibrato, and bask in the presence of a master of jazz harmony and rhythm.
Such little details abound here. On an epic "Dancing in the Dark," Vaughan hits the word "dancing" with a broad vibrato that seems to key the arrangement's sense of swing, building to an operatic crescendo. On a wonderful "September Song," her subtleties of pitch convey the season's changing colors; and, during a turnaround which hinges on a descending "and...," she demonstrates remarkable harmonic grace, suggesting the twisting, wistful dance of a falling leaf with vocal leaps like the bowed double stops of a cello.
© Rovi Staff /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 34 track(s)
- Total length: 01:41:02
- Main artists: Sarah Vaughan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz Vocal Jazz
© 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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