Sandy Graham?

[JSngry]

Saw her on Super Password and she said she was a singer. So I looked her up and she's both alive and pretty highly regarded.

She's also made three records, the first of which was on Muse and has Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wiggins, and Herman Riley on it.

So - Super Password Champion/Muse Recording Artist, there can be only one of those, right?

Anybody heard of her?

[HutchFan]

Her name is new to me.

 

[Ken Dryden]

I’ve never heard of her and I think that I was getting serviced with Muse CDs when hers was issued. It looks like something that I would have kept.

[JSngry]

https://www.allmusic.com/album/sandy-graham-mw0000612784

per the omnipresent Scott Yanow:

Sandy Graham has such a confident maturity in her delivery that it is difficult to believe that this Muse set was her recording debut as a leader. The singer's confidence extends to her choice of material which is highlighted by "You," "But Beautiful," a tantalizingly slow rendition of "Whisper Not," "Hey John" and "Don't Explain." Without scatting or wandering far from the melodies, Graham gives each song an individual approach. Assisted by a supportive rhythm section and the tenor, flute and baritone of Herman Riley, Sandy Graham leads an easily recommended set of swinging jazz.

and https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sandy-graham-mn0000832907/biography

Sandy Graham is an excellent straight-ahead, bop, ballad, and blues singer who is based in Los Angeles. She has a very expressive and at times conversational style that is both soulful and swinging. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, she grew up surrounded by music. Graham sang in her Baptist church as a child and grew up loving jazz. She started out imitating and learning from the recordings of Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Carmen McRae. Graham sat in at jam sessions and at 19 was a professional singer for the first time, performing at the Sapphire Room in West Los Angeles. Her life since then has been wide-ranging and includes time spent working as a model and an actress. Among the highlights of her singing career are performing with Jimmy Rowles in 1973, recording with the Colorado Springs Air Force Band in 1975, performing on a fairly regularly basis with the Nat Pierce/Frank Capp Juggernaut since 1979, working with Bill Berry's L.A. Big Band and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, performing on several different occasions in Japan, touring Europe with the Duke Ellington All-Stars in the 1990s, and working with pianist Gerald Wiggins. Sandy Graham performs regularly in the Los Angeles area but thus far has surprisingly recorded only three CDs as a leader, one for the defunct Muse label and two more recent efforts (Comes Love and By Request) for Jazz Link.

 

Here's another one: https://www.amazon.com/Comes-Love-Sandy-Graham/dp/B0007XYRUO/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1637068923&refinements=p_32%3A+Sandy%5CcGraham&s=music&sr=1-4

and one more (dude needs to present clean fingernails when it's the international internet, I say):

Tabscott?

Seems like she has enough money to not play the struggle game, so kudos for being there,

Now...how does she sing?

[Dan Gould]

I saw copy on discogs of Muse for less than $5. But I'm sure you did too.

 

[JSngry]

Not yet...grab it if you want it, please!

I wish Valerie Bishop was still around, this seems like somebody she would have known.

[Dan Gould]

8 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Not yet...grab it if you want it, please!

I wish Valerie Bishop was still around, this seems like somebody she would have known.

Yeah, not as fascinated by the singing side of things as I know you are. I'd need to hear her first before an order, even though it's a cheap copy.

[JSngry]

Maybe later today I will look at it. I've definitely paid more for less, that's for sure.

[Dub Modal]

Never heard of her and she's not on Apple music. However, some stuff on YT. This one's from Comes Love: 

Great voice IMO. 

[JSngry]

5 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Never heard of her and she's not on Apple music. However, some stuff on YT. This one's from Comes Love: 

Great voice IMO. 

Yeah, no problem with that! It sounds "local" but in a good way, like, not everybody in L.A. is a "big name". Same in any big city. Just because they stay local doesn't mean they don't have skills.

The $4.99 Discogs seller has a minimum order requirement, and you know, not in the mood for that. So I paid $8.99 for one from a different seller. I am curious.

I'm also curious if a creative accountant could find a way to finagle the $20K+ she won on Super Password into a promotional expense...I mean, here we are about 40 years later and I'm buying her record because she stayed on playing the game long enough for me to finally look and see who she was, if in fact she really WAS "anybody". The money she won has resulted in a sale, so....deductible, right?

I do have an odd affection for Googling random game show contestant fro the previous century to see if the show up on the internet, and occasionally they do.

As it turns out, people are everywhere, allegedly, but...prove that, ok?

 

[Dub Modal]

38 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I'm also curious if a creative accountant could find a way to finagle the $20K+ she won on Super Password into a promotional expense...I mean, here we are about 40 years later and I'm buying her record because she stayed on playing the game long enough for me to finally look and see who she was, if in fact she really WAS "anybody". The money she won has resulted in a sale, so....deductible, right?

Yeah, hopefully she knows one!

Yanow on All Music digs her:

Sandy Graham is an excellent straight-ahead, bop, ballad, and blues singer who is based in Los Angeles. She has a very expressive and at times conversational style that is both soulful and swinging. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, she grew up surrounded by music. Graham sang in her Baptist church as a child and grew up loving jazz. She started out imitating and learning from the recordings of Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Carmen McRae. Graham sat in at jam sessions and at 19 was a professional singer for the first time, performing at the Sapphire Room in West Los Angeles. Her life since then has been wide-ranging and includes time spent working as a model and an actress. Among the highlights of her singing career are performing with Jimmy Rowles in 1973, recording with the Colorado Springs Air Force Band in 1975, performing on a fairly regularly basis with the Nat Pierce/Frank Capp Juggernaut since 1979, working with Bill Berry's L.A. Big Band and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, performing on several different occasions in Japan, touring Europe with the Duke Ellington All-Stars in the 1990s, and working with pianist Gerald Wiggins. Sandy Graham performs regularly in the Los Angeles area but thus far has surprisingly recorded only three CDs as a leader, one for the defunct Muse label and two more recent efforts (Comes Love and By Request) for Jazz Link.

[JSngry]

I got the Muse record, took my time listening to it until today, and was pretty much "that's nice" and all that, but then all of a sudden, there's this ballad version of "Whisper Not" that was right. She did one of those tempos that you don't do unless and until you know  that you know.

Plus, she ain't singing no bullshit singer skate shit. Hell, she covers two Terri Thornton songs. No pandering or otherwise going for that singer okie-doke nonsense.

Maybe not the most "compelling" singer ever, but if I was in a club, I'd stick around for two sets, at least 

The password is "props".