Sarah Vaughan
Gold
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Date:  1981
Format:  MP3
Bitrate:  ~127 Kbps
Genre:  Jazz
    Track Listing:
      CD1:
      1.  
      		 If You Could See Me Now    2:51
      2.  
      		 Black Coffee    3:18
      3.  
      		 My Funny Valentine    2:59
      4.  
      		 Lover Man    3:17
      5.  
      		 Shulie A Bop    2:41
      6.  
      		 Body And Soul    3:12
      7.  
      		 Tenderly    3:12
      8.  
      		 Lullaby Of Birdland    4:00
      9.  
      		 I'm Glad There Is You    5:10
      10.  
      		 You're Not The Kind    4:43
      11.  
      		 Embraceable You    4:50
      12.  
      		 How High The Moon    2:37
      13.  
      		 Sometimes I'm Happy    2:58
      14.  
      		 Lush Life    4:04
      15.  
      		 Poor Butterfly    3:30
      CD2:
      1.  
      		 September Song    3:04
      2.  
      		 All Of Me    3:17
      3.  
      		 Summertime    2:52
      4.  
      		 My Man's Gone Now    4:24
      5.  
      		 Passing Strangers (With Billy Eckstine)    2:39
      6.  
      		 Broken-Hearted Melody    2:24
      7.  
      		 No 'Count Blues    5:28
      8.  
      		 Just One Of Those Things    2:32
      9.  
      		 Misty    3:01
      10.  
      		 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set    2:49
      11.  
      		 Smooth Operator    2:22
      12.  
      		 Mr. Lucky    2:28
      13.  
      		 The Sweetest Sounds    4:28
      14.  
      		 Take The A Train    2:43
      15.  
      		 Send In The Clowns    6:19
      Sarah Vaughan is served well on Gold. First, it's a career-spanning compilation, something that's rather rare in her discography. Beginning with sides from her Columbia years of the late '40s and early '50s, and ending with a 1981 Pablo date with Count Basie, Gold surveys Sassy at her absolute best, whether it's a classic torch song such as "Lover Man" or the breezily swinging "Lullaby of Birdland." The work surveyed comes from both her small-group outings and large-group dates, with strings or without, and much credence is given to her self-titled 1954 album with Clifford Brown (four tracks total), as well as her series of Gershwin songbook records of the mid-'50s (two inclusions). In fact, three-fourths of the program is recordings from the '50s. This is as close to a career summation as listeners are bound to get, or will need to have.