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Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin is a 1957 studio album featuring Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, and the songs of Irving Berlin. [1] Although Vaughan had made many recordings with Eckstine, this was their only complete album together.
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- Youthful Rebellion and Recognition
- Going Solo
- Moving on
- Sarah Vaughan Legacy
- Top 10 Sarah Vaughan Songs
- It’S Magic
- How Important Can It be?
- Nature Boy
- Black Coffee
- That Lucky Old Sun
Aside from gospel music, Sarah Vaughan also took an interest in popular music at a young age. During the 1930s, she often watched local and touring bands at a street skating rink facility that showcased them. When she became a teenager, she performed as a pianist and singer at nightclubs, including the Piccadilly Club and the Newark Airport. This w...
Starting in 1945, Sarah Vaughan began to freelance as a solo artist in New York City at a variety of jazz clubs and nightclubs. Although she was technically a solo artist, she still performed frequently with bigger bands, including Gillespie’s. This also included studio recordings. Come October the same year, she performed with violinist, Stuff Smi...
Despite the early success with Columbia Records, Sarah Vaughan found herself at odds with the label’s management style as she didn’t match the atypical standard of talent they were spending more time on. As of 1953, Treadwell managed to negotiate a new recording contract for Vaughan with Mercury Records. She made her debut recording with the new la...
In 1947, Sarah Vaughan won Esquire Magazine’s New Star Award, as well as a series of awards from Down Beat Magazine from 1947 until 1952 and Metronome Magazine from 1948 until 1953. The success trail of Sarah Vaughan saw the early stages of her career blossom with performing opportunities throughout the United States between the late 1940s until th...
#10 – Tenderly
According to Sarah Vaughan, “Tenderly” was a song she was proud of as it placed her as a name to be the first to record what the industry calls a jazz standard. “Tenderly” became an unexpected hit in 1947 on the US Billboard Hot 100. She, along with Nat King Cole, recorded this song separately and are both noted for its cult classic, but it was first recorded and released by Brazilian singer, Dick Farney by July 1947. Sarah Vaughan recorded on July 2, 1947 but her version didn’t hit the chart...
From the Doris Day film, Romance on the High Seas, “It’s Magic” became a chart success in 1948 for Sarah Vaughan as this beautiful jazzy ballad peaked as high as number eleven on the US Billboard Hot 100. While her version didn’t chart as high as Day’s number two achievement, it still earned itself a place among the favorites as Vaughan’s performan...
“How Important Can It Be?” was first popularized by Joni James in 1955. Sarah Vaughan recorded hers the same time as Joni James recorded her second version. When James’ publisher, MGM Records, learned of this, they rush-released hers before Vaughan’s label company at the time, Columbia, could do it. For Vaughan, it still peaked as high as number tw...
“Nature Boy” was a single that first recorded and released by Nat King Cole in 1948, becoming an integral part of his big breakthrough as a jazz singer. For Sarah Vaughan, her cover of this single earned her a number nine hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 as a less orchestral version. “Nature Boy” has become a pop and jazz standard that has seen many...
Released during the summer of 1949, “Black Coffee” was the first single through a Columbia Records release by Sarah Vaughan. For her, it was a number thirteen hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is still regarded today as the most notable version since it was first published by Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Webber in 1948. The first two measures of ...
On the US Billboard Hot 100, “That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)” peaked at number fourteen in 1949. Sarah Vaughan’s jazzy performance deliberately contrasted the narrator’s life with the oblivious attitude regarding the natural world. From the start of the song to the end, “That Lucky Old Song” was every bit as dramatic as an au...
Billy Eckstine. William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) [1] was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. [2]
Listen to Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin (With Bonus Tracks) on Spotify. Billy Eckstine · Compilation · 2014 · 15 songs.
