The Divine Sarah Sings | ||||
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Released | 1954 | |||
Recorded | October–December 1954 | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 54:43 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
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The Divine Sarah Sings is a 1954 EP album by Sarah Vaughan, accompanied by the Hugo Peretti Orchestra. [1]
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The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album three stars and said that "This now-rare ten-inch LP is a quintessential artifact of the 1950s; easy listening in gleaming hi-fi for the white suburbs. Miss Sassy does her job supremely well, even making stoic work of the cuter-than-words treatment of "Honey," and occasionally she gets a chance to show off her uniquely wide-screen range, turning in an especially lovely "Tenderly" with some virtuosic glides". [1]
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