Sarah Vaughan

...I first heard "Dancing in the Dark," but certainly know I've always loved it. Most listeners are familiar with the definitive version by Sarah Vaughan on Mercury. Martin Williams loved her last note, but I remember telling him that the...

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...Should I Cry Over You? ") Sarah Vaughan released by Mercury Records in the United States as catalog number 71085 and in Australia as catalog number 45169, both with the flip side "April Give Me One More Day" Paul Weston Orchestra...

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...Song. As Hendricks' stature as an arranger grew, it was inevitable that Mercury Records would pair him with one of their biggest names, Sarah Vaughan, for some of the great jazz singer's forays onto more commercial territory. His...

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...Records, where he founded the EmArcy label. There he produced, among others, jazz musicians Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, the Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet Billy Eckstine and Dinah Washington. He also worked in pop (with Patti Page, Vic...

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...co-founder and president of Mercury Records. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was instrumental in promoting African-American artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and the Platters. In 1945, he founded Mercury Records, in Chicago,...

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...Mercury early in 1958, Jack Tracy took over producing the likes of Roach and Cannonball Adderley, he also began to produce singers like Vaughan and Washington in a style that was increasingly distant from the normal jazz string orchestra...

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...the late 1960s. There, he provided arrangements for another raft of top singers, including Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Helen Merrill, Ernestine Anderson and, on Mercury's parent label, Philips Records, Nina Simone. Mooney was...

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...by Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, and Gerald Wilson. In 1978, she recorded a legendary album with pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louie Bellson. She followed this with two albums of Duke Ellington's...

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...to show for their efforts other than some excellent records. When her contract with Roulette ended in 1963, Vaughan returned to the more familiar confines of Mercury Records. In the Summer of 1963, Vaughan went to Denmark with producer...

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