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Adding to U Tube's embarrassment of riches a Legrand song and version already posted. A good Jack Jones take but then did Jones do otherwise than good interpretations .. What can you say about Sarah Vaughan apart from " the best"
The dispute is less active but thirty plus years ago you could get a conversation about who is the greatest jazz singer or even what is a jazz singer. it encouraged many into print with aspirants spreading themselves on the quidditas of singing.
Louis Armstrong for whom some flew a flag as greatest jazz singer. may I respectfully dissent. The big three for me and seemingly many ~ . Operatic voiced Sarah Vaughan ~Virtuoso scat singer but also excellent straight ballad singer Ella Fitzgerald ~and for those with a yen for tragedy Billie Holiday. but many many more ~ some not getting respect deserved.Some skirting jazz~ a Raincheck ~ In the 1960s or a little later I had an album by a singer since died but underlining the cross border nature of music from show tunes to jazz. singer Carol Ventura . Nowadays a name sadly for a pub quiz but Ventura was a skilled singer especially remembered Everybody says Dont (musical Anyone can Whistle) and another number Bye Bye Just checked U Tube and its not there so quite a deal of music still missing from internet but lets pay tribute to 87 year old veteran jazz arranger saxist Benny Golson who scored Ventura's albums a talent in the vicinity of Quincy Jones. I have some live Golson visuals from 1965( at least i hope I still jhave from a BBC session featuring Tubby Hayes in the saxes.

The great thing the aforementioned female trio Vaughan Fitzgerald Holiday don t clash ~ each with unique vocal attributes True Ella and Sarah have similarities both possessed of phenomenal vocal virtuosity and quite obviously rejoicing in their special vocal gifts. and that white heat art creativity led to prolific legacies A time when skill in musical art was paramount in performance. something that nosedived or perhaps simply changed as the years passed but that's another story . Unlike the greats of yore todays pop music depends less on interpretative skills. Although her voice was ragged by that time ( comparatively speaking but always musical ) Ella late in her career did a live Basie Album that still swings like billy~o.Ella's 1950s 1960s songbooks with voice in full loom are a treasure of popular music. I know rockers and latterday musos want to protect their music as special but another prejudice? For me the best popular music of 20th century starts and ends with George Gershwin Harold Arlen Cole Porter Richard Rodgers and other mid century songwriters with songs marked by many things not least versatility in interpretation not just in a jazz way..

An attractive understated I Will say Goodbye on U Tube from 1972 but then Lena Horne could easily do linear understated interpretations amidst her blitzing up tempos numbers. The arrangement seems Legrand and better for it.
Pity Everybody says Dont is less heard nowadays Barbra Streisand also had her say on that show tune . Not one to say boo about Streisand and her vocal technique but I probably prefer Ventura on the song. Theres a lot of vocal exertion in the Streisand version ~ Ifcopod thats what the song is about a sort of patter song going like the clappers .Nonetheless~( IIfcopods desperate bid for credibility as the ship sinks) ~I prefer the more deliberate gait of Ventura version. But if there is an implicit agenda to this erudite spiel Consider the numerous( literally) singers who like Ventura just got one stab at success. Luckily we have the CDs or more likely vinyls.
This has nothing to do with anything just wanted to share the thought. In the 1970s I had a great live Buddy Greco album recorded in the UK doing among other things youve guessed it his party piece Thats why Thats why the Lady is a Tramp. the album~ vinyl disappeared but not memories of Buddy swinging like crazy doing what he did so well. A great version.