SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
SARAH WAUGHAN
SONGWRITER: GERSHWIN, GEORGE IRA
COUNTRY: U.SA.
ALBUM: SARAH VAUGHAN SINGS GEORGE
IRA GERSHWIN
LABEL: EMARCY
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1958
Sarah
Vaughan Sings George Gershwin is a 1958 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the
music of George Gershwin.
Vaughan
would release another all-Gershwin album, Gershwin Live!, in 1982.
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".
In the
summer of 1980 she received a plaque on 52nd Street outside the CBS Building
(Black Rock) commemorating the jazz clubs she had once frequented on
"Swing Street" and which had long since been replaced with office
buildings. A performance of her symphonic Gershwin program with the New Jersey
Symphony in 1980 was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award the next year
for Individual Achievement, Special Class. She was reunited in 1982 with Tilson
Thomas for a modified version of the Gershwin program, played again by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic but this time in its home hall, the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion; the CBS recording of the concert Gershwin Live! won a Grammy for Best
Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.
After the end of her contract with Pablo in 1982, she
committed to a limited number of studio recordings. She made
a guest appearance in 1984 on Barry Manilow's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, an album
of pastiche compositions with established jazz musicians. In 1984, she
participated in The Planet is Alive, Let It Live a symphonic piece
composed by Tito Fontana and Sante Palumbo on Italian translations of Polish
poems by Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II. The recording was
made in Germany with an English translation by writer Gene Lees and was
released by Lees on his private label after the recording was rejected by the
major labels.
In 1985 Vaughan reconnected with her longstanding,
continually growing European audience during a celebratory concert at the
Chatelet Theater in Paris. Released posthumously on the
Justin Time label, In the City of Lights is a two-disc recording of the
concert, which covers the highlights of Vaughan's career while capturing a
beloved singer at the height of her powers. Thanks in part to the hard-swinging
telepathic support of pianist Frank Collett (who answers each of her challenges
then coaxes the same from her), Sarah reprises Tad Dameron's "If You Could
See Me Now" with uncommon power, her breathstream effecting a seamless
connection between chorus and bridge. For the Gershwin Medley, drummer Harold
Jones swaps his brushes for sticks to match energy and forcefulness that does
not let up until the last of many encores.
In 1986,
Vaughan sang "Happy Talk" and "Bali Ha'i" in the role of
Bloody Mary on a studio recording by Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras of the
score of the Broadway musical South Pacific, while sitting on the studio floor.
Vaughan's final album was Brazilian Romance, produced by Sérgio Mendes with
songs by Milton Nascimento and Dori Caymmi. It was recorded primarily in the early part of 1987 in
New York and Detroit. In 1988, she contributed vocals
to an album of Christmas carols recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with
the Utah Symphony Orchestra and sold in Hallmark Cards stores. In 1989, Quincy
Jones' álbum Back on the Block included Vaughan in a brief scatting duet with
Ella Fitzgerald. This
was her final studio recording. It was her only studio recording with
Fitzgerald in a career that had begun 46 years earlier opening for Fitzgerald
at the Apollo.
The video
Sarah Vaughan Live from Monterey was taped in 1983 or 1984 with her trio and
guest soloists. Sass and Brass was taped in 1986 in New Orleans with
guests Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson. Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One was
part of the American Masters series on PBS. Also in 1986, on Independence Day
in a program nationally televised on PBS she performed with the National
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in a medley of songs
composed by George Gershwin.
There's
a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told
"Seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek
A certain lad
I've had in mind
Looking
everywhere
Haven't found him yet
He's the big affair
I cannot forget
Only man I ever think
Of with regret
I'd
like
To add his initial
To my monogram
Tell me
Where is the shepherd
For this lost lamb?
There's
a somebody
I'm longin' to see
I hope that he turns
Out to be
Someone to watch over me
I'm a
little lamb
Who's lost in the wood
I know I could
Always be good
To one
Who'll watch over me
Although
he may
Not be the man some
Girls think
Of as handsome
To my heart
He carries the key
Won't
you tell him please
To put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
Won't
you tell him please
To put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me.
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