Sarah Vaughan (vintage clip) French Subtitles

[shimasamba]

im crying over her......

[ellaswings]

they don't make 'em like this no mo' --singers, I Mean!

[paulostroff99]

Sensational!

[SharkSport]

After 30 years of listening to Sarah and Ella, I still can't pick a favorite, and no longer do I try.

[BenjaminKubelsky]

Sarah was more purely musical than Ella. Something special indeed. Ella was more virtuoso. Why compare? You might like Monk, you might like Bill Evans: it's simply a matter of taste.

[Blueskywatcher]

What year was this, owner?

[VealParmigiana]

Sarah Vaughan was one of my favorite singers. I prefer her higher vocal range to Ella Fitzgerald. I am biased because I prefer post 1950s music, but in my opinion, Sarah's vocals sounded friendlier, sassier, and more sensual than Ella's. My favorite voices of popular female singers are: Alice Babs, Sarah Vaughan, and Judith Durham. All three came across in some of their songs,as soft, soothing, and warm, and

all three sounded angelic in some of their songs.

[PeterAliha]

respect both Ella and Sarah; for me, I love the naturality of Ella and technical manipulation of Sarah. I don't quite agree with people saying that "mousy-sounding" is Ella's fault. Though Ella may not have the pitch as high and all-rounded as Sarah's, Ella makes wise use of her thin delivery of voice. You can search "I can't give you anything but love" by Ella here @ utube; it's a perfect example in which Ella transforms the supposed "weakness" into miracle and makes her rendition matchless.

[asdfhuliashduflasihf]

Gorgeous.

[nigel1034]

i like her and billie holidays version.

[paulostroff99]

She is Jazz,and she is music.Hail Queen Sarah!

[nancydrew5]

Beautiful woman, beautiful voice!

[winrx]

Boy, what a stunner during her earlier years - along with her talent and charm she must have been the toast of the town back in the day!

[cjtarpley]

i luv u sarah

[greenstboy]

Sorry Ella, but Sarah's the best ever!

[themanhootch]

I agree completely. Sarah is in a class by herself. No one could milk a song like she could, and make everything sound sweet without getting mousy-sounding, which is Ellla's great fault, IMO.

[taddyd1]

ella was ALWAYS SV's model on every song PERIOD.

[Pedrolarrozapretti]

Sarah wasn't as FAST as Ella in arpegios or scat singin (for example), but she was possibly just as inventive as the First Lady, and her voice impostation was much smoother: Sassy was a perfectionist of sonority. Tuning is a tie, I suppose. Sarah's tessiture was longer, I guess (especially in her late years).

That said, overall Sarah was the best (in my humble opinion...) Ella was just more... "jazzy", I think.

[taddyd1]

Ella's melody changes were always THE most natural and inventive of any singer of the classics, period. Ira

Gershwin was amazed at her "impovements" on their songs.. Every Sarah performance was based on the Ella mode, reguardless of one's preference for SV's tone over EF's or vice versa. Ella: the professor Sarah: the VERY gifted pupil. Johnny Mathis and Jon Hendricks both agreed that EVERY pop/jazz singer (even Judy Collins!) put Ella on the throne as the favorite influence.

[taddyd1]

Many vocal purists detest Sarah's improper overuse of vibrato and praise Ella's perfect control of hers. Personally I loved SV's approach, but I love Edith Piaf and Joan Baez's Hyperkenetic vibratos too! Jazz is more about improv than tone though and Ella's underated ballad and swing changes are simply unmatched by anyone and when it come scat: nuff said just in mentioniong the word. Sarah is a Goddess! BUT Ella is the Queen Goddess!!!

[taddyd1]

The Singer's Society's highest honor is not the "Sarah"

[mademoiselleaspiring]

Because Ella Fitzgerald received more media attention than Sarah Vaughan does not mean that she was any less of a singer. In fact many jazz critics, in writing no less, have asserted that technique and style wise Sarah Vaughan was the better singer.

[taddyd1]

i think it's best left as a toss-up! choosing perfection over perfection is impossible.

Ella was the original mold from whence Sarah came though.

[superc2k]

right so Sarah had time to practice and see where Ella was lacking and fill that space

[taddyd1]

Ella sold more and was more influential (even Vaughan was her pupil), but Sarah was far from ignored by the media. Baez is more famous than Collins, Aretha more than La Belle, Barbra more than Celine, Patsy more than Loretta. The original/first usually has the edge in the fame/legend game.

[mademoiselleaspiring]

Too true. I see now that you understand that Sarah Vaughan was also a very accomplished singer and were not trying to denigrate her accomplishments.

[ralphabetsoup]

Great rare old video - thanks to the uploader.

[PeacefulRuler]

So playful...love the slurs. She sang the hell out of that little song.