Ruth Leon recommends… Tenderly – Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr
Ruth Leon recommendsTenderly – Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr
I don’t need any excuse to play you this wonderful number from Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. This is from a 1983 telethon but it’s ageless and timeless.
They’ve both gone now, much too young – The Divine Sarah was only 66 when she died, brilliant and versatile Sammy was only 65, and we’ll never hear anything like them again.
This song, in this performance, is here because I love it and because I believe that the art of popular singing never got any better than this.
I hope you agree.
Wonderful stuff! Thanks for posting. I also recommend a Duke Ellington version of “Tenderly” played by the great Jimmy Hamilton on clarinet
Thank you for sharing this, which I hadn’t seen before – it’s wonderful.
Such phrasing and artistry, just doesn’t get much better, and they were clearly having such a great time performing together.
Not a tune one normally associated with Sammy Davis Jr. but “Sassy” was great!!