Wow! That's silk velvet she's got for a voice. Nothing like it anywhere else in the universe.

Amazing! What World is going through in year 2020 and still 1 of the greatest voices we ever heard the Divine One 🎤🎙SOLID!!!

Now THIS is what artistry, elegance and great music was all about! Thank you, thejazzsingers, for posting this. I truly enjoyed the chance to see and hear the divine Miss Sarah once again. Whenever she came to town, I would be in the audience for every show. He voice was an instrument!

Her voice is pure SILK !! I love the way she sings MISTY . MY favorite song is Send in the Clowns. The way she handles it and approaches it. SHE made it her own. My heart melts. I'm 39 years old and 2 of my favorite artist always spoke highly of her. Anita Baker is my favorite artist and she studied Ms. Sarah Vaghn and now I truly understand why and can hear the divine one in some of her songs. Sarah Vaughn is brilliant. There's only one. She was a beautiful woman inside and out.

Smooth as silk - what a beautiful voice. This is the personification of class.

She eventually died of lung cancer. What an amazing talent - been listening to her since I was a kid.

woooooooooow!! Her voice and control is sick! She is sooo vibrant!!! LOVE IT!!

Amazing voice! I can't stop looking for more Sarah songs to listen to.

ONE of my favorite songs of all time.

Thanks for posting. Broken Hearted Melody, what a thrill to watch video, always hear it but...........wow

what a voice the queen i melt when i hear this women even though this is much before my time where are these voices today i feel cheated

I remember Ms. Vaughn having a cocktail in her other hand....Girl friend liked to Party.......She's Briliant!!!

Wonderful! I never really heard a lot from her on the radio as I was growing up. I started learning about her only within the past 8 years or so. Love her! I'm having a lot of fun discovering the music she made before she passed. I'm surprised no one has tried to popularize a cover of 'Broken Hearted Melody.' (or have they?) I'm even more surprised that we don't hear more of her on radio stations that play standards and nostalgia music. Always great to hear her voice.

timeless!!!!!

very very nice

Wonderful....

divine Sarah

one of my favourite of all time performances

E' e sarà unica!

Yes. I was surprised to see a cigarette in her hand too, but that was that period. Many singers smoked

beautiful

WOW!!!!!

La "Divina" Sarah Vaughan cantando en vivo tres de sus mayores exitos, de los cuales yo me quedo con "Broken hearted melody", que para mí es su tema insignia! Al parecer esta es una presentación en la mansión Playboy, lo digo por el conejito en la bateria, y por el hombre delgado junto a la columna blanca, que por la pipa en la boca debe ser Hugh Hefner.

From what I understand, Sarah hated "Broken Hearted Melody". It's great to her swinging it here minus the hokey string accompaniment that plagued 50's pop and AC. Her live performances of "Gone With the Wind" were stellar...I've posted one of her performances of the tune from a radio show, audio only, but it's also magnificent. So much dramatic poise, manifested in quite a beautiful physical presentation. It's lamentable that beautiful singing fell out of fashion, no?

Makes sense - it was a pop song. Sort of of like the disco songs many artists felt compelled to release in the late 70s. But the really talented people like her raised the level of the pop tunes they sung - she raised the bar in whatever she sang.

@juanitamitchell3090

5 жыл бұрын

ain't never lied on that

listen til the end ... there are three songs including 'broken hearted melody'.

Maybe. I've known a lot of jazz players to carry joints in cigarette cases. Whatever it was, it's amazing that her range and clarity weren't wrecked by smoking while singing. I can even see the smoke billowing up from the ashtray behind her! She was like wonderwoman!

Nice.

w sarah!!!

Those were the days...having a puff during her peformance...ha

This is called "MISTY", not Broken Hearted Melody. Anyway, great rare footage...

@rreettyyuull

5 жыл бұрын

actually neither of you are wrong she sing both songs, so chillllllllllllll

Is she holding a cigarette during Misty?

AAA+

At thant time it was being sophisticated to smoke - if you didn't you were thought a bit odd, especially men. Fortunately boys got the message in the '80s, but girls took longer. (I taught 2000 16 - 18 year olds from 1968 - 2004, so pretty good data!)

Smoking was good for you back then. By the time they decided it was bad for you, everyone was already addicted.

yeah she did not like singing it but did it cause of audince demand she felt silly singing this song called broken heart melody etc

playboy bunny on the drums

1:38 Is she holding a cigarette? Terrible. The cigarette: the serial killer of so many beautiful voices in the 20th C. And Sarah Vaughan was the most beautiful of all.

@RaymondHng

2 жыл бұрын

In 1989, Vaughan's health began to decline, although she rarely revealed any hints of this in her performances. She canceled a series of engagements in Europe in 1989, citing the need to seek treatment for arthritis of the hand, although she was able to complete a series of performances in Japan. During a run at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club in 1989, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and was too ill to finish the last day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances. Vaughan returned to her home in California to begin chemotherapy and spent her final months alternating stays in the hospital and at home. She grew weary of the struggle and demanded to be taken home, where at the age of 66 she died on the evening of April 3, 1990, while watching _Laker Girls_ , a television movie featuring her daughter.

@Christian06820 I ment to give your comment another thumbs up and I accidently hit the other one. I wish I could take it back.

Yes she is smoking

Yes, this is from "Playboy After Dark" I believe. Sassy would have had no problems singing in a room full of white people. She didn't think that way. She was down to earth, she enjoyed a good time, she made friends easily (and tons of them), she loved to work and she made lots and lots of money, more money than anyone else in that room! As you can also see, she was elegant and the epitome of fashion. Musically, she was a genius, period.

@rreettyyuull

5 жыл бұрын

think what way? she definitely was aware and help to fight for civil rights, now whether she let it get to her is different, but to say think that way? it was real racism there was no way to think about it , but you must go on, don't make it seem like it would have been terrible for to think anything because it was hard and if she didi and was still able to pull it off I love here even more if its possible from the deep depth that i do now and always.

@cocomaire Cruel irony, she died from lung Cancer...

she may have been paid to hold a cigarette, I'm not sure she smoked. I was really young when I met her, I don't rmember. She was a friend of my Aunt Dianah Washington and she attended my Uncle's funeral, but I was very young. I don't remember, I just remember a lot of the adults smoked.

The difference when I'm listening to black female Jazz & Blues singers: Pearl Bailey - 🥰 Billie Holiday: 😢 Mamie Smith: 🤗 Ethel Waters: 😍 Nancy Wilson: 😘 Sarah Vaughan: 😌 Ella Fitzgerald: 😃 Nina Simone: 🤤 Lena Horne: 😏 Bessie Smith: ☺️ Ma Rainey: 🤠 Lucille Bogan: 😱 Eartha Kitt: 😚 Dinah Washington: 😯 Koko Taylor: 🤯 *Gospel: Mahalia Jackson: 😇 Clara Ward: 🥺 Cissy Houston: 😳 *Rock n Roll: Big Mamma Thornton: 🤩 Sister Rosetta Tharpe: 🥳 * Rhythm and Blues: Etta James: 😎 *Classical/Ethnic/Theatrical: Josephine Baker: 😁 (*Not gonna include the " QUEEN OF SOUL " - Aretha and other 60's Soul Divas, They, Shady*)