A1 - A Taste of Honey
A2 - What Kind of Fool Am I?
A3 - I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
A4 - Sermonette
A5 - In Love In Vain
A6 - Gravy Waltz
B1 - The Good Life
B2 - Moanin'
B3 - 'Round Midnight
B4 - Easy Street
B5 - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
B6 - Midnight Sun

Recorded in June 1963 at United Recorders in Los Angeles.

Sarah Lois Vaughan (1924 – 1990), nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine", was a four-time Grammy Award winner, including a "Lifetime Achievement Award". The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.

Studying the piano from an early age, Sarah Vaughan became an organist and choir soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church as a pre-teen. At the age of eighteen, she entered the famed Amateur Contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Her rendition of the jazz standard "Body and Soul" won her first prize. Billy Eckstine was in the audience that night; six months later, she had joined him in Earl Hines’s big band, and sang alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, as well as being the band's second pianist.

Sassy's years on the Roulette label (1960-64) have been called the legendary singer's finest hour, a time when Vaughan's musicality merged exquisitely with her unbridled vocal ardor to achieve the sublime. Sarah Sings Soulfully stands as a stunning testament to this claim, a divine collection of tracks that reveals an artist staking her soul on the rendering of each and every note, as well as the silences between them. Seductively spare, luxuriously poignant, and achingly honest all at the same time, Vaughan's vocals careen incandescently through the 12 standards presented here, swooping, sighing, and soaring with an intensity that remains unparalleled to this day.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.

This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed with virgin vinyl at Pallas.