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Best of Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan

What is your favorite album or 'must own' song or recording by the following artists:

Etta James
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
Billie Holiday

Just looking to pick up a few new CD's and there are SO many from these catalogues. Content is the MOST important, quality is second. If the recording is the best of both, great!!!

Thanks!
jh2os
sherod
1,690 posts
 
Thank you Newbee. I wanted to buy a Cd, but I wasn't sure which one would be a good start. In this NPR tribute, they played some songs that she was accompanied by her saxophone friend and partner, Houston Person. They seemed to click together to make really nice music.
yashu
196 posts
 
Gershwin Live - Sarah Vaughan and Michael Tilson Thomas with the Los Angeles Philharmonic is spectacular. A grand voice with a stellar orchestra.
jimcrane
165 posts
 
Here's a second vote for Ella Fitzgerald's The Harold Arlen Songbook, particularly her version of Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love). Her phrasing of the vowel sounds in that song is especially seductive.

Jim Crane
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
Excellent choices above to represent these great women. I'll just add my favorite Ella Fitzgerald recording: "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie". Great renditions of "Good Morning Heartache" and "Night In Tunisia".
soundqcar
78 posts
 
I too will chime in regarding the quality of Ella's "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie".

My favorite Sarah Vaughn is "How Long Has This Been Going On?"
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