Song of the Day: "Broken-Hearted Melody" by Sarah Vaughn

Just because it's SUCH a great song.

It spent 19 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1959, from mid-summer to late fall, peaking at #7.

From the PBS American Masters website. Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her “the most important singer to emerge from the bop era.” Ella Fitzgerald called her the world’s “greatest singing talent.” During the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, she was the singer’s singer, influencing everyone from Mel Torme to Anita Baker. She was among the musical elite identified by their first names. She was Sarah, Sassy — the incomparable Sarah Vaughan.