when did sarah vaughan sign with mercury records
In 1953 Vaughan signed with Mercury Records and embarked on a short but successful pop career. By 1959 she had made the Billboard charts with songs like C'est la Vie, Mr. Wonderful, The Banana Boat Song, Smooth Operator, and the million-selling Broken-Hearted Melody..n only child, Sarah Lois Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1924. Both of her parents enjoyed making music in their spare time--her carpenter father as a guitarist and piano player, her mother as a singer with the local Baptist church choir.