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From: doo@mhuxi.UUCP (viscomi)
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Subject: Re: Black Coffee - more recorded versions...
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 16:11:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 16:11:56 1985
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> (Only half a cup?  I thought you LIKED my coffee!)
> 
> It's amazing what I find every time I look through my record
> collection (I have over 2000 albums).  The other day, in response to
> another article, I said I had recorded versions of the song "Black
> Coffee" sung by Julie London, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan.  I
> thought I did, off the top of my head.  Guess what?  I don't have ANY
> of those!
> 
> The version by Sarah Vaughan is on a record she did for Columbia in
> the 50's.  It has a grey cover, but I forget the name.  I don't seem
> to have this album.
> 
> I know I've heard Billie sing it, but I don't have it on any of the
> eight VERVE albums and a few Commedore, Decca and Columbia albums of
> hers I have.
> 
> I have ten Julie London albums, but it's not on any of them.
> 
> I have Rosemary Clooney singing it on her Reprise album "Thanks for
> Nothing," recorded in the early 60s. It's been reissued in Japan,
> though it's hard to get here.
> 
> I have Anita O'Day singing it on her album "Angel Eyes" recorded
> direct-to-disc in Tokyo in 1978 on Lobster Records.  It has been
> reissued in the USA on Anita's EMILY records, under the same title.
> 
> I also have Peggy Lee singing it on a double album simply entitled
> "The Best of Peggy Lee."
> 
> I didn't check all my records, so I may have more versions of it.  At
> any rate, to the person who originally was looking for more versions
> of this song, I hope this helps some.
> 
> Tom Buckley
> AT&T Information Systems
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> (303) 538-3442


I believe their is another version of Black Coffee by Chris Connor
possibly with Maynard Ferguson on Atlantic.