Songs of the Beatles [Import]

Sarah Vaughan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B000002I8H
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,640 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Back

2. And I Love Her

3. Eleanor Rigby

4. The Fool on the Hill

5. You Never Give Me Your Money

6. Come Together

7. I Want You (She's So Heavy)

8. Blackbird

9. Something

10. Here, There and Everywhere

11. The Long and Winding Road

12. Yesterday

13. Hey Jude

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Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget Jazz! This is hip Sarah Vaughan singing The Beatles!, November 21, 2004

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Carlos from Rio "Carlos from Rio" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of the Beatles (Audio CD)

If you're a radical Jazz vocal fan, forget it! If you search for a good reason to prove how can a big vocalist play its role perfectly and independently of material, this is a must!

I love Jazz, I love Jazz vocal but most of all I love Good Music and I love Sarah Vaughan. This the real good spirit on listening this album of inventive and pop swinging (yes, pop!) arrangements by the late great Marty Paich which wraps Vaughan's voice beautifully.

A wide variety of moods makes up this set. From romantic 'And I Love Her' and 'The Long and Winding Road' to the swingers 'Get Back' (a sensational opening just to tell you: - Stand up and move, baby!) and 'Come Together'. Also a Bossa Nova made out of 'Something' with the collaboration of Marcos Valle, the great Bossa Nova composer and singer who wrote and sang Portuguese lyrics along with Ms. Vaughan's English lines.

Ok. Material is Beatles'. Swinging Beatles, dig it?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock & Roll, Latin Rythms & 3 beautiful Vaughan ballads., December 17, 2004

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Richard Meyer "jazz lover" (Woodbridge,VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of the Beatles (Audio CD)

This was recorded & produced in 77 & Atlantic sat on it until 81. Sarah figured why doesn't the greatest jazz voice in the world perform the most famed group's (Beatles)material in the world.For Sarah to get on Atlantic she had to sound commercial the way Atlantic wanted Sarah to sound.Atlantic did it with Ella,Peggy & exceptionally with Esther Phillips.Atlantic makes Anita Baker sound pop & one way because now days jazz is not all that marketable.I am a Vaughan fanatic & it is fun to hear Sass do rock & roll which she seldom does and her latin rythms on "I Love Her & Something".The songs are famous & they are fantastically revamped.Atlantic let Sarah do her own inimitatable standard way of singing the last three songs "Here There & Everywhere,Long & Winding Road,& Yesterday" in ballad form making beautiful voice exercises & interpretations hitting those soprano notes of these famous songs.One could consider this another one Sarah's songbook albums showing her absolute versatility.It's different & I love it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This was good for what it was, November 27, 2008

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Lemas Mitchell "Libertarian/ Empiricist" (Hunan Changsha) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of the Beatles (Audio CD)

It wasn't all that great. The best point of the whole thing was listening to the jazz like arrangements and interpreting what was possibly meant by this or that different voicing/ chord substition. A lot of songs take on a whole different meaning when they are reinterpreted (which explains why some people have bigger hits when playing other people's music), but these songs didn't take on all that different of a meaning from the original pieces.

The strongest track was "The Fool on The Hill."

This is worth a secondhand purchase price and not much more.