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Sarah Vaughan - Gold (1981)

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

Notes

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.