Sarah Vaughan - Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Live from Sweden) Mercury Records 1964
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- "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is a popular song from the 1953 musical Kismet, credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on works by Alexander Borodin, in this case the second theme of the second movement of his String Quartet in D. The "Kismet" setting maintains the original's 3/4 waltz rhythm; pop music settings change the rhythm to a moderate four-beat accompaniment. Jazz musicians are especially drawn to the song's beguiling melody and advanced harmonic structure. The familiar AA'BA+Coda structure of the song is energized by a key change up a major third interval for every section; the transition is marked by a bracing harmonic progression from the central major key of one section to the tritone minor key of the following section. Jazz players and singers have enjoyed the musical challenges of this song for decades.
The best-selling version of the song was recorded by Peggy Lee in 1954. Other versions were recorded that year by Lu Ann Simms, Georgia Gibbs, and Frank Sinatra. The Kirby Stone Four re-make hit the Billboard Top 100 in 1958 and remains a favorite on adult standard stations. (Eumir) Deodato recorded an instrumental in a hit LP of 1973.
But the most curious version is that one that mixed the scherzo of Borodin's string quartet No. 2 with this piece of music, arranged by the Argentine Ernesto Acher under the name Borodin, Bangles & Beads in 1987 on his album "Juegos"
Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 -- April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century." Nicknamed "Sailor" (for her salty speech), "Sassy" and "The Divine One", Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.
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. Sarah and her family were all registered Democrats.
She developed an early love for popular music. In the 1930s, she frequently saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink. By her mid-teens, she ventured illegally into Newark's night clubs and performed as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and at 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 overtook her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate more fully on her music.
In 1989, Vaughan's health began to decline, although she rarely revealed any hints of this in her performances. She canceled a series of engagements in Europe in 1989, citing the need to seek treatment for arthritis of the hand, although she was able to complete a series of performances in Japan. During a run at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club in 1989, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and was too ill to finish the last day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances.
Vaughan returned to her home in California to begin chemotherapy and spent her final months alternating stays in the hospital and at home. She grew weary of the struggle and demanded to be taken home, where at the age of 66 she died on the evening of April 3, 1990, while watching Laker Girls, a television movie featuring her daughter.
Her funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Following the ceremony, a horse-drawn carriage transported her body to Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Sarah's accompanied by Kirk Stuart (piano), Charles "Buster" Williams (bass), and Georges Hughes (drums). Recorded in Sweden, 1964. (Mercury Records)
Baubles, bangles, hear how they jing, jinga-linga
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads
Sparkles, spangles, my heart will sing, singa-linga
Wearin' baubles, bangles and beads
I'm just a glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream so that
Maybe he may buy me a ring, ringa-linga
I've heard that's where it leads
Wearin' baubles, bangles, and beads
Baubles, bangles, hear how they jing, jinga-linga
Baubles, bangles, bright, shiny beads
Sparkles, spangles, my heart will sing, singa-linga
Wearin' baubles, bangles, and beads
I'm just glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream so that
Maybe a he may, buy me a ring, ringa-linga
I've heard that that's where it leads
Wearin' baubles and bangles, sparkles, spangles
Loads and loads of baubles, just give me those bangles
I gotta have sparkels, bangles and beads 
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The arrangement of this song is so inventive and clever, not to mention sung masterfully. Am I surprised? Oh, wait. It's Sarah Vaughan....nah, she's just brilliant again!
Sarah Vaughan sure understood melodic line and she instinctively knew how to ride a good tune without wringing it dry.
Agreed. Sarah Vaughn new how to insert her own creativity and soul without destroying a melody- like Billie Holiday or Etta James.
This is how it is done. Ms. Vaughn was simply melodic perfection!
Loved all those great songs❤
I feel unworthy just to comment on this 20th century master musician.
Yes. This is how to render a song. Key changes like nobody's biz. Love it, her and everything about this performance. Thanks Sarah.
Divine sassy!
Amen to that!! I named my precious black toy poodle Sassy after guess
Guess who !!!
wow she had such control and range in her voice just like Ella! the two greats in my opinion, heart felt, harmonious , no wrong they could do! melodic and poetic! perfection
Extraordinary .... she kills me ! What a musician !
Totally, absolutely, beautifully unique. She was perfect and let me speechless every time with her incomparable voice!
That why she was called “ Velvet Voice!”Alf Fell
@@alfredfell2664 oh my God Alf Fell? Is he OK?
@@alfredfell2664 Any relation to Al Fell Downs?
@@rhythmfield Greg definitely a leg pull all my life, obviously, you travel a lot under ground. DRegarding Sarah Vaughan superb.Alf.
@@alfredfell2664 sorry Alf … I hope no offense taken, I like to fiddle with words and make silly jokes.
All serious/devoted jazz fans are one global fraternity/tribe-hope you’re well.
Pure jazz coolness...thanks, Miss Sarah.
Such a marvelous rendition. Sarah Vaughan was such a splendid performer.
Fabulous.....beautiful rhythm ....beautiful voice....beautiful woman!!!
Great jazz rendition and the great Sarah Vaughan.
Saw this incomparable lady on the stage of radio city music hall ... what more is there than that
She is brilliant. Her musicians are amazing. Thanks for this post.
How gargantuan is this, then? Her husky tone, range and power, plus the trio - from another galaxy, they are. So excellent.
+Caroline S.T. Hell yes
Never heard anything from this beautiful lady that didn't make me feel happy.
Very much probably you are very very very young.
The Devine one as good as you will ever hear this song
So simple, but the class is off the charts.
What is simple about this? A very harmonically complex tune that cycles through three key centers, this lesser known standard is not often sung by today's jazz artists. It's a real challenge to sing this one. For a top notch singer like Sassy, it's a piece of cake!
+rockintetster calling it simple is not an insult. Calling it complex is not a compliment. Achieving infectious musical style while remaining simple melodically and/or harmonically is the mark of true genius.
Thanks! So it is Kirk Stuart (piano), Charles "Buster" Williams (bass), and Georges Hughes (drums).
And to think that she had a cold during this performance.... what a professional and amazing talent!
Parallels have been drawn between Vaughan's voice and that of opera singers. Jazz singer Betty Carter said that with training Vaughan could have "...gone as far as Leontyne Price."[15] Bob James, Vaughan's musical director in the 1960s said that "...the instrument was there. But the knowledge, the legitimacy of that whole world were not for her ... But if the aria were in Sarah's range she could bring something to it that a classically trained singer could not."[16]
In a chapter devoted to Vaughan in his book Visions of Jazz (2000), critic Gary Giddins described her as the "...ageless voice of modern jazz - of giddy postwar virtuosity, biting wit and fearless caprice".[17] He concluded by saying that "No matter how closely we dissect the particulars of her talent ... we must inevitably end up contemplating in silent awe the most phenomenal of her attributes, the one she was handed at birth, the voice that happens once in a lifetime, perhaps once in several lifetimes."[17]
Her voice had wings: luscious and tensile, disciplined and nuanced, it was as thick as cognac, yet soared off the beaten path like an instrumental solo ... that her voice was a four-octave muscle of infinite flexibility made her disarming shtick all the more ironic" - Gary Giddins
Thank you for sharing the critical commentary
No equivalent singer today. She is soooo good!
There are some excellent ones but she is the queen. Many modern singers just emote by getting louder. And they don't have the theory chops she's got.
@@emmynelson3943 Thanks for your response. She has superb control of her vocal instrument, producing a totally unique sound. I love that sound. Extraordinary singer.
I agree 100%. She is like an angel!
In the US, we didn't save footage of great musical performances from the 50s and 60s. No foresight shown at all to save these performances for future generations to view. Thankfully, Europe wasn't so ignorant about this and saved a number of great performances. An example of Europe having respect for art and music and the US being too pigheaded to care.
Cant stop listening to this. She's just magnificent. I like how she the changed the "glitter and gleam so" part, I'm having trouble with how it's written too.
Sarah Vaughan is one of a kind! Magnificent!
Is there anyone now who sounds like Sarah Vaughan??? This woman is so God gifted with such a unique voice.
The most beautiful voice a woman has ever had, and what a miraculous singer she was. And thanks to registered material, we can say "She is"
superb!
That arpeggio at 1:40 though. Chills.
All musical performance instructors professors in all colleges for the performing arts please introduce this type of artist to your students and show them the difference between what real art and singing is compared to whatever it's called now
What a talented lady.
The very very best! Thanks
This is perfection!
what a goddess...
Una voz exquisita....una manera de llevar el ritmo y la cadencia.....q manera de interpretar.....!!! Simplemente maravillosa....la.acabo de descubrir gracias a un programa en el canal de TV UNAM!! e inmediatamente la rastree...y he aqui...una Diosa!!
Borodin and Sassy together!!!!
I just LOVE it! Sarah and her trio are groovin’ - sensational!!!
ok if this isn't the mostest greatest absolutest fabuloso gorgeouso incredibleissimo!!!! How can your mood not radically head up? THANK YOU SARAH - YOU ARE THE TOP!!!!!!!!
She's F-ing Great!
Wow!!
What pipes!!
Why haven't I heard of her before..
Awesome
God. She was amazing..
Sublime
This is awesome
what a musician ... remarkable and wonderful
Ahhh, sassy Sarah, wow!!!
That’s Magic❤️
Que swing! Sarah, fantástica ! Bravaaa!
(sigh) All I've got to say is...IF you had the luxury of how you leave this Earth, a man could simply close his eyes with a smile on his face listening to this gem. thanks for the post.
Very good. I like it. A lot.
Timeless song ❤
She’s the greatest. Love her!
Sophistication at its best!!!
The Devine One or Sassy everyone knew who you mean Sarah Vaughn the best ever...
Fantastic
Love it. Love Sarah Vaughan.
Thank you.
God I love her.
Love the Sarah Have for ever and more.
I LOVE THIS WOMAN😍😍😍😍😍😚😚😚😚😶😚
This divine woman moves me so much.
One and only!
damn that delicious ending
Thank you for the excellent description of the song structure. I keep coming back to this song, it is fascinating in its complexity.
Incredible Sarah the great
A goddess. Oh my god
irreplaceable
Excellent...
Baubles, bangles, hear how they jing, jinga-linga
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads
Sparkles, spangles, your heart will sing, singa-linga
Wearin' baubles, bangles and beads
She glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream so
That some day I may buy her a ring, ringa-linga
I've heard that's where it leads
Wearin' baubles, bangles, and beads
She should glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream so
That some day, some day I may buy her a ring, ringa-linga
I have heard that's where it leads
Wearin' baubles, bangles, and beads
All those noisy bangles, and beads
Preciosa...
Sassy is glorious here.
GREAT and intriguing video description - thanks for mentioning all the musicians names, and I never knew about the Borodin connection in this tune.
Exquisita!!
Lovely reference to Erroll Garner at 1:52 :D
Perfect.
Baubles, bangles,
Hear how they jing, jing-a-ling-a,
Baubles, bangles,
Bright, shiny beads.
Sparkles, spangles,
My heart will sing, sing-a-ling-a,
Wearing baubles, bangles and beads.
I'll glitter and gleam so,
Make somebody dream so,
That someday he may buy me,
A ring, ring-aling-a,
I've heard that's where it leads,
Wearing baubles and bangles and beads
awesomev
The best,the end
Effortless class
premier songstress
que música gostosa de ouvir,linda
hot...
Ô SORTE!
Melhoras música de Milton Nascimento
Fabulous rendition. Can anyone identify the supporting musicians?
1:42
Sassy Divinity!
besser gehts nicht
Peggy Lee .....>>>>>>>>**************
No singer could blend the soulful artistic expression that we associate with black singers without compromising the melodic integrity of the original song like Sarah Vaughan. Ella comes close, but she was less "soulful." As great as singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Pearl Bailey, Etta James, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne were, I always felt they always compromised the tune.
rockintetster
Exactly.
Who?
Cant let you dis Ella and ignore it.lol
Ella could sing anything that could be sung . like no one else or like anyone else.
Sarah’s singing lifts me to a magical place . 💫
and today people think Kanye is significant. I need a time tunnel
Kan ye give me a break!
Kan’t Yea
Sassy!!
She’s liked to hear the specials sounds too‼️Must be a female special little quirk! LISTEN UPGUYS