The Resume

(March 27, 1924-April 3, 1990)
Died in Hidden Hills, California
Albums include 'Misty,' 'In Hi-Fi,' 'Sarah's Blues,' 'Divine Miss V.,' 'Sarah & Clifford' and 'Time After Time'
Songs include 'Say It Isn't So,' 'Sassy's Blues,' 'Send In The Clowns' and 'Sometimes I'm Happy'
Acted in 'Disc Jockey (1951),' 'Basin Street Revue (1956),' 'Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990)' and 'Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998)'

Why she might be annoying:

She was a smoker.
Lung cancer took her life.
She quit school.
She was married and divorced over five times.
One marriage was to her manager and trumpeter.
Her nicknames were 'sassy' and 'the divine one.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She ranked #50 on VH1's Top 100 Women of Rock 'n Roll.
She began piano and organ lessons at a very young age.
She won a $10.00 prize and a week's engagement with Apollo after performing at Apollo's New York's Harlem district.
She had a daughter.
She was once married to a pro football player, Clyde Atkins.
She was the organist for her church by age twelve.

Credit: Skunk Butt

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Appeared on PBS' American Masters
• Brothers and Sisters, I Have None
• Dick Cavett Show Guests
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Fag Hags [Women Loved by Gay Men]
• Gong Show Panelists
• Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Ranked: 1983)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 1989)
• I am from Newark, NJ
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [U-Z]
• I Appeared on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon [U-Z]
• I Covered a Beatles Song
• I Covered Eden Ahbez's 'Nature Boy'
• I Covered 'Fever'
• I Covered 'I'll Be Seeing You'
• I Covered 'Just a Gigolo'
• I Covered the Beatles' 'Hey Jude'
• I Died in 1990 (Ranked: 66)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[U-Z]
• I Have Lung Cancer
• I Married at Least Five Times [I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do!]
• I Performed on American Bandstand [R-Z]
• I Recorded ‘Autumn Leaves’
• I Recorded 'Gloomy Sunday'
• I Sing About Coffee
• Las Vegas Walk of Stars Honorees
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• MCA's 20th Century Master Artists
• My Song is on Rhino's 'Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America'
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1999)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1998)
• NPR's 50 Greatest Jazz Vocals [2013] (Ranked: 11)
• NPR's 50 Greatest Jazz Vocals [2013] (Ranked: 19)
• Profiles 7001-7250 (Ranked: 7045)
• Skunk Butt/Rebecca's Profiles [Series 4]
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock [July 1999] (Ranked: 50)
• Women With Deep Voices

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 100 Votes: 69.00% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 56 Votes: 51.79% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 35 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 44 Votes: 47.73% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 30 Votes: 56.67% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 70 Votes: 45.71% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 111 Votes: 49.55% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 230 Votes: 46.09% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 258 Votes: 46.51% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 508 Votes: 45.08% Annoying