SARAH VAUGHAN - LULLABY OF BIRDLAND

LULLABY OF BIRDLAND

SARAH VAUGHAN

SONGWRITERS: GEORGE DAVID WEISS & GEORGE SHEARING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SARAH VAUGHAN’S GOLDEN HITS

LABEL: MERCURY RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

 

         Sarah Lois Vaughan(March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

       Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"

     Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, a carpenter by trade who played guitar and piano, and Ada Vaughan, a laundress who sang in the church choir, migrants from Virginia. The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood. Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at the age of seven, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services.

        She developed an early love for popular music on records and the radio. In the 1930s, she frequently saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink. By her mid-teens, she began venturing illegally into Newark's night clubs and performing as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and the Newark Airport.

       Vaughan attended East Side High School, then transferred to Newark Arts High School, which opened in 1931. As her nocturnal adventures as a performer overwhelmed her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate on music.

Lullaby of birdland that's what I

Always hear when you sigh

Never in my wordland could there be ways to repeal

In a phrase, how I feel

 

Have you ever heard two turtledoves

Bill and coo when they love

That's the kind of magic music we make with our lips

When we kiss

 

And there's a wheapy ol' willow

He really knows how to cry

That's how I'll cry on my pillow

If you should tell me farewell and goodbye

 

Lullaby of birdland whisper low

Kiss me sweet, and we'll go

Flying high in birdland high in the sky up above

All because we're in love

 

And there's a wheapy ol' willow

He really knows how to cry

That's how I'll cry in my pillow

If you should tell me farewell and goodbye

 

Lullaby of birdland whisper low

Kiss me sweet, and we'll go

Flying high in birdland high in the sky up above

All because we're in love.