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The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan

| type = studio

| artist = Sarah Vaughan

| cover = sarahexplo.jpg|border=yes

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| released = 1963

| recorded = May–July 1963

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Vocal jazz

| length = 54:43

| label = Roulette

| producer =

| chronology = Sarah Vaughan

| prev_title = The Divine One

| prev_year = 1961

| next_title = Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan

| next_year = 1961

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The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan is a 1963 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Benny Carter.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=benny-carter-sessions-r205751|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=AllMusic|title=The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan|access-date=May 2, 2011}}

This was Vaughan's first album with Carter. Her second, The Lonely Hours, was released in 1964.

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = New Record Mirror

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last=Watson |first=Jimmy |date=21 September 1963 |title=LP Reviews |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-09-21-S-OCR.pdf |newspaper=New Record Mirror |issue=132 |page=10 |access-date=6 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401224856/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-09-21-S-OCR.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2022}}

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album three stars and said that Vaughan was "frequently miraculous [...] Throughout, Vaughan is in prime voice, overcoming the weaker material and uplifting the more superior songs."

Track listing

  1. "I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) – 3:05
  2. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:01
  3. "Moonlight on the Ganges" (Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace) – 2:37
  4. "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:14
  5. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:38
  6. "A Garden in the Rain" (James Dyrenforth, Carroll Gibbons) – 3:16
  7. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:09
  8. "The Trolley Song" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:37
  9. "I'm Gonna Live Until I Die" (Manny Curtis, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent) – 2:05
  10. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:29
  11. "Great Day" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 2:02
  12. "Nobody Else but Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:11

Personnel

References

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