Sarah Vaughan - Tenderly (Live from Sweden) Mercury Records 1958
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- "Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross (1909-1967) and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Copyright 1946 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. Originally written in the key of Eb as a waltz in 3/4 time, it has since been performed in 4/4 and has subsequently become a popular jazz standard.
Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 -- April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century." Nicknamed "Sailor" (for her salty speech), "Sassy" and "The Divine One", Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.
Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, a carpenter by trade who played guitar and piano, and Ada Vaughan, a laundress who sang in the church choir, migrants from Virginia. The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood. Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at the age of seven, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services. Sarah and her family were all registered Democrats.
She developed an early love for popular music. In the 1930s, she frequently saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink. By her mid-teens, she ventured illegally into Newark's night clubs and performed as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and at Newark Airport.
Vaughan attended East Side High School, then transferred to Newark Arts High School, which opened in 1931. As her nocturnal adventures as a performer overtook her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate more fully on her music.
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.
Her funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Following the ceremony, a horse-drawn carriage transported her body to Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Parallels have been drawn between Vaughan's voice and those of opera singers. Jazz singer Betty Carter said that with training Vaughan could have "gone as far as Leontyne Price." Bob James, Vaughan's musical director in the 1960s said that "the instrument was there. But the knowledge, the legitimacy of that whole world were not for her ... But if the aria were in Sarah's range she could bring something to it that a classically trained singer could not."
In a chapter devoted to Vaughan in his book Visions of Jazz (2000), critic Gary Giddins described her as the "ageless voice of modern jazz - of giddy postwar virtuosity, biting wit and fearless caprice". He concluded by saying that "No matter how closely we dissect the particulars of her talent ... we must inevitably end up contemplating in silent awe the most phenomenal of her attributes, the one she was handed at birth, the voice that happens once in a lifetime, perhaps once in several lifetimes."
Sarah's accompanied by Ronnell Bright (piano), Richard Davis (bass), and Art Morgan (drums). Recorded July 9, 1958. (Mercury Records)
The evening breeze
Caressed the trees,Tenderly
The trembling trees
Embraced the breezeTenderly
Then you and I
Came wandering by
And lost in a sigh
Were we
The shore was kissed
By sea and mist
Tenderly
I can't forget
How two hearts met
Breathlessly
Your arms opened wide
And closed me inside
You took my lips
You took my love
So tenderly
Then you and I
Came wandering by
And lost in a sigh
Were we
The shore was kissed
By sea and mist
Tenderly
I can't forget
How two hearts met
Breathlessly
Your arms opened wide
And closed me inside
You took my lips
You took my love
So tenderly
You don’t hear voices like this today. Truly a bygone era
Today's singers all sound alike.
I agree. I've heard of her but never listened to her sing. What a treat...awesome.
Heaven! Sassy forever!
The closest I can think of would be Chrisette Michelle, because of her voice style and tone.
Amazing.
I am grateful that in this modern world, l am able to experience this magnificent singer's career at the touch of a screen. An extraordinary voice and singer.
Amen to that
@@jamien.5528 Thanks for your comment. I am fortunate to possess vinyl LPs of her, Studio recorded and one double LP album of a live performance. Still play them (LPs are "as new").
She is absolutely incredible, love her!
Misty canzone
Sure
THIS IS A REAL SINGER
YES
a truly gorgeous god given voice
Oml we know ok?
@@leslieevans211 yes and thank God she took care of that gift !.. she worked very hard to keep that voice this beautiful..
❤❤
AS AN SENIOR ADULT I'M CERTAINLY QUALIFIED TO SAY THIS AND THAT IS SARAH VAUGHN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST FEMALES SINGERS EVER.IF YOU UNDER 45 YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT OR MAYBE YOU DO.EITHER WAY SHE HAD A SUPERSTAR VOICE THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET.R.I.P. SARAH,REST IN PEACE.AND NO NEED TO THINK I'M YELLING AT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE HERE,I JUST PREFER TO TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS.IT'S NOTHING BUT LOVE FROM ME TO YOU.
Yes! She is in the True Top Ten Greatest of All Time
Bro ...your Caps Lock is on...
Chill Bro😂
BRO SHUT UP,THIS THE WAY I PREFER TO TYPE.@@jnairac
WE ALL GOT AN AGE TO DIE,SO SHE DIED WHEN IT WAS HER TIME AND NOT WAY TOO YOUNG.@@fisherman9435
@@jnairacRESPECT YOUR ELDERS
Here's what todays singers don't get: Phrasing, nuance, emotion, and dynamics. Nowadays its all about belting it out and doing runs over every note for no reason
This is the Voice of pure jazz, no auto tune, no pretentions, amazing!
Today we're so bombarded with mediocrity, singers like Sarah Vaughan seem positively superhuman.
Back in the day when people got famous if they were talented and hardworking, not necessarily charismatic.
To be fair, all it takes is sifting through the trash to find gold. There are still some amazing singers and song writers. Amy Winehouse(I know she is gone but she was here only 8 years ago), Erykah Badu, Lana Del Rey, Tony Bennet(thank god he is still here), Beth Hart, Sade, etc. All are incredible musicians.
@@JazzFlop212 Yes! Amy Winehouse is one of my biggest inspirations, and I've only recently discovered Beth Hart. Such talent!!
And all without Autotune.
So true lol she's just singing properly literally she's a genius
She kills in the lower registers.
The fuck is a lower register?
@@isaacredmond. Google is our friend.
@@akrenwinkle your obviously not
@@isaacredmond. Ugh, the your/you're crowd. They never fail to get it wrong.
@@akrenwinkle ikr.
I saw Sarah Vaughan live in Ann Arbor in 1980. She was phenomenal. I learned the next day that she'd had the flu and a fever of 102° - and still she put on a fantastic show.
You're a lucky man.
Ouch. That hit my ❤ then my 👀
She was a trooper, i saw her in Boston, 1989... she was sick with cancer, yet gave 3 encores
Her vocal range and pitch is better than anything auto tune could ever achieve…her speaking voice is just so buttery and soft that it keeps you captivated and hanging on every word
No autotune needed.
Sheer artistry, absolutely captivating.
She has a voice like no other. Absolutely beautiful and unique.
Who in their right mind in this Life would ever Thumbs Down Sarah Vaughn????!!!
Her voice really does have such an unbelievable sound
Not only is her voice naturally flawless
But the emotion that she portrays in her music
Well
She really is one of a kind
And by far one of the most talented female singers in history
Although she is gone
Her music will continue to reach new generations
As we see what was real music
Compared to todays music
I second the emotion...!!!
Tenderly truly. 🤗
HER VIBRATO IS INCREDIBLE ~!~ HER TRADE-MARK~!~
simply the greatest female singer of all time , the only one i have herd go from soprano to baritone in a single note , imagine the level of voice control required to do that .
no doubt, a treasure chest of vocals. incredably breathtaking voice!
Agreed. Simply wonderful voice. Even someone that likes other musical genres has to appreciate the talent. Like listening. To a Stradivarius violin.
@@robcampbell3235 hi rob you're so right , genre has never meant much to me , great music and great singers i. e. SARAH , PATSY , ANDY , NAT etc. transcends genre .
Right on, and her breath control is unreal - she seems to be able to hold a note forever. Sarah was a long-time smoker, which makes her breath control seem even more amazing. Sadly, she passed from lung cancer at age 66.
@@jsphotos she'd make an amazin ventriloquist ....not joking either
I had the pleasure of enjoying Sarah in bIrdland 1949. She is one of the best vocalist of all time.
Effortless. Real. Non GMO. No auto tune. From Source. Light language in its glory 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Oh my goodness, the range she had! This woman’s voice is a treasure!
A Superb Singer from a time that we will never ever see again Ever PERIOD!!!
Sarah Vaughan’s range was magnificent and endless ,she could hit any key with no effort,she was and still is one of my favorite singers,they don’t make them like her anymore !
Geez her range. I can't handle this
I know... her breath control was magnificient as well.
Her range is normal.
@Stone People: maybe normal, but she knew how to use it to ultimate effect.
Beautiful. The vibrato is real. I love the control and everything she has with her voice 🥰
I’ve never heard a voice like her!!!! So magnificently flawless
Yes! And now 23 year old Samara Joy sounds so much like her.
@@LavonneCliffThomas ok. I have to check her out 👍
@@LavonneCliffThomas oh my you’re right. Samara Joy is flawless like an old soul of Sarah Vaughn!!!!
This the smoothest groove in the universe. WOW.
What a talent, the unsurpassed Mrs. Sarah Vaughan
Ms. Vaughan had the most beautiful voice ever. Her phrasing, and smooth control of each note was absolutely brilliant. There will never be another Sarah Vaughan...RIP ❤❤❤
I am 70 and started playing Trumpet, Coronet and Baritone at age 10.Learned to read music at that age. I have heard many vocalists and instrumentalists in my time and Sarah is at the top !. She was truly Blessed ! She had absolute Precision, Range and finite voice control.Absolutely perfect !...No wonder her accolades were so many ! What a joy to listen to that grat voice !...db
The ONE & ONLY...
Yes, exactly, that precision and voice control, and it almost seems effortless
Dana Brinkmeier-since u play trumpet& coronet-have you heard about the grp from New Orleans with Shay the lead coronet player called TUBA SKINNY?Pls enjoy& chk this group out!!They are amazing.First song-Egyptian Ella🎷🎶🎹👍🎙
@@lynngold1865 I Just watched a concert by them and they are Great..Very skilled musicians that play tight...Love em to death ! Dana
Respect 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Какая она здесь молодая и красивая. Голос просто божественный. Единственная и неповторимая.
I'm here as my Nan used to like her hope she listening .x❤
Gorgeous voice to soothe anxiety..thank you ❤
I just love Sarah xxx this is what you call a SINGER……with emotion 🌼🌸🌺. God Bless her and Rest her Soul🙏. Thank you Sarah Vaughan x. You are still here in 2022 ❤️
So relaxed and gentle. Effortless Mastery right here!
There may be endless discussion about the greatest female jazz singer but, for me, its Sassy. I love Ella and so many other wonderful artists but Sassy eclipses them all.
No endless discussion necessary.
Lady Day 💖 Billie Holiday rules forevermore!
The divine Sarah is second.
@@monicabella7894 I think the majority of us here respectfully disagree. Billie was a great singer, but Sarah was objectively and *insanely* talented. Frank sinatra even said her voice is so good it makes him want to kill himself out of jealousy.
I say Aretha, and I LOVE the others named here as well. They’re voice goddesses 😊🙏🏻
@@JazzFlop212 I might get flack (and I don't mean Roberta) for saying this, but I think people like to praise Billie Holiday because it's hip, the hard luck story, she's legendary, she's what we (oldsters) used to call "heroin chic." But I love Ella best because aside from having the best instrument, technique, and range, she could sing the happy and romantic refrains, of course, but she could also sing about trainwreck without BEING a trainwreck. Which requires acting.
I agree to disagree. Billie, Ella, Sarah, Carmen, Betty: these ladies were singular at what they did. They is no "greatest". Stars in the night sky all shine the same to his but each is unique and different in their glow. No one can be you like you and know singer can sing as any of them did.
Doesn't get any better than that.
She has such a beautiful voice and sings effortlessly with such control.
1:53, listen to that playful riff between bass and piano. Awesome, as the bassist chuckles!
Love that interaction anyone loves music the whole piece is a gem
She sing’s like an angel 👼🏽 . OMG !! I love 💕 her voice
Music was much better then, unlike the trash you hear today.
My oh My this SEEMS like Life from another Planet.. I was ALL of 6 at the time.. I tell you with EACH passing Generation the Music does NOT get better it gets WORSE.. LOOK at old Family Photo Albums from the past & then look at today.. I rest my case....
What an incredible voice and perfection in the performance!
She sings so effortlessly
I was born in 1954, Ten Years Too Late. The old music was the best. It is as simple as that.
She has the most divine voice.
this is real singer,and real music
she is fantastic :) her voice is so sweet like the sound of a bird
I love her stlye of singing.
My Dad's favorite !!!Beautiful
I've fallen in love with her ! She makes me feel with her voice. I've listened to many voices, but this is smooth and pure bliss 😍❤💛💜💙💚
She is so beautiful to listen too.
One of the best who ever lived!
This is when Singers were Singers. They served their Public. What's more they were talented, making a fraction of what they make today. Sarah is pretty. Bless her and continued rest 💐
With the many raw unfiltered, beautiful, talented voices i wish they made more music like this 🎶
Soft and sensuous sound of this beautiful lady. Sarah Vaughan a great singer that people can enjoy today.
My favorite Vaughn jam love her voice she sounds damn near like Louie Armstrong singing when she speaks
She started singing on that first note and I hit "like." I have loved Sarah Vaughn since the womb!
What's left to be said about Sassy. She's one of a kind. Great to see one of the all time great bassists Richard Davis here. Ironman!
Real talent. Voice like silk ❤
Wow! I can't do that! Only Sarah Vaughn. Angel of Jazz.
SHE WAS SO ADORABLE OMG
What a Song sang by The Devine Sarah.Vaughan....
Sarah Vaughn your voice beautiful. They don't make music like this anymore simply divine. Love always.
My Dad passed in march 2018,he was a big Sarah Vaughan/ Billy Extine fan,everytime "passing strangers" came on the radio my mum would shout dad to come and listen.her voice seemed so effortless and un-strained.
thanks for posting.....
My fav female vocalist for over 50 yrs.
No wonder the music being produced today, just basically gave up...how can anyone compare to this? How lucky we are to have her voice to our ears ...to our hearts, thank the gods for this talent...joy
Oh how I love Ms. Sarah Vaughan.
her voice is so amazing i want to cry
Queen 👑
She's just wonderful.
So beautifulllll ...j’Adore ...hello miss Sarah in the sky ...😍✨
Sings like a cool breeze, refreshing
Love at 1.54 bass player looks to piano unexpected run of semitones lovely tune well recorded Sarah timing and tone the best andy (bob)yates
What a voice.....wide range...sweet n melodious. Nostalgia of yesteryear......human voice skills could eclipse every instrumentation.
My mother Christine and I would listen to Sarah Vaughn, and after the song my mother who simply say "Whew" and hold back her tears.
Sarah sang this song just like it's title. Tenderly!! I'll always love her voice. One of my favorites!! Nobody then and nobody today can sing like her.
There’s not much better than this ❤️
Oh my. The range. The control. What a voice.
I listened to this in its entirety ...❤❤
I grew up during that era, we were spoiled by wonderfully talented entertainers like Ms Vaughan.
Sarah Vaughan was truly one of the all-time greats. It’s too bad we have so few singers of her caliber today.
she is devine indeed!!!
True musical ROYALTY.
Flawless... Perfect pitch and balance... Pure Love!
See, this is what I like. A real, true blue singer. This is so pretty, Ms. Vaughn. What a talent. And that timbre. She was singing w/ little to no effort. Just pure.
💖💖🦋🦋🎶🎶Merveilleuse Sarah Vaughan 🎶🎶🦋🦋💖💖
Never before and never again. Beautiful!
a voice made in heaven listen carefully its magic
i love her tone and the slow drag of her voice
Those were the yesteryears. What a voice. Too bad that today’s vocalists are not learning real talent.
Just melts your heart doesn't she ? Thanks so much. Martin and
One of a kind. Enough said!
Amazing
GREAT VOICE!! AT ANY AGE!! THIS WOMAN WAS VERY DEDICATED!! CONGRATULATIONS. REST IN PEACE.
Fabulous and timeless
I Love me some Sarah Vaughn ❤💛💜💙🧡💚
Superb song.
I'm JUST listening to her music, she's the epitome of class, elegance and blues filled soul. Now that I've discovered her beautiful music I will treasure it forever! Thank you
This is one of my favorite songs. She did it justice! What a wonderful she has. Just heavenly!
Oops!......voice should be inserted after wonderful.
Always loved her. Beautiful music. How I miss it.
Just listened again for the thousandth time...Sarah takes me astral
Powerful vocalist
This is the song you hear when you enter heaven
Sublime.