Fun fact: On the evening of Oct. 8, 1961 in Minneapolis, one had the choice of seeing either Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, who performed a few blocks apart from one another. Vaughan was midway through a two-week run, so it would’ve been possible to have seen them on consecutive nights.

The editor-publisher of the Minneapolis Spokesman, Cecil Newman, devoted the first portion of his publisher's column to Sarah Vaughn after seeing her in that two-week stand in Oct 1961 at Freddie's.