Sarah Vaughan's Golden Hits

by Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan's Golden Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:51
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This beautifully curated collection rounds up the legendary vocalist's most commercially potent and critically lauded recordings for Mercury Records. Balancing incredibly sophisticated, swinging jazz phrasing with sweeping, heavily orchestrated traditional pop balladry, the album serves as a definitive showcase of her unmatched operatic range and flawless, horn-like improvisational agility.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal, classic, ballad, virtuosic, compilation

Tracklist

  1. Misty (2:59)
  2. Broken Hearted Melody (2:23)
  3. Make Yourself Comfortable (2:39)
  4. Autumn In New York (3:19)
  5. Moonlight In Vermont (3:16)
  6. How Important Can It Be (2:28)
  7. Smooth Operator (2:20)
  8. Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) (2:36)
  9. Lullaby Of Birdland (3:59)
  10. Eternally (2:23)
  11. Poor Butterfly (3:31)
  12. Close To You (3:05)
  13. Lover Man (3:16)
  14. Tenderly (3:09)
  15. Passing Strangers (2:38)
  16. C'est La Vie (2:33)
  17. Experience Unnecessary (2:49)
  18. The Banana Boat Song (2:20)

Credits

  • Sarah Vaughan - primary artist
  • Erroll Garner - written-by
  • Johnny Burke - written-by
  • Hal David - written-by
  • Sherman Edwards - written-by
  • Bob Merrill - written-by
  • Vernon Duke - written-by
  • John Blackburn - written-by

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