Experience Unnecessary
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| "Experience Unnecessary" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Sarah Vaughan | |
| B-side | "Slowly with Feeling" |
| Released | 1955 |
| Label | Mercury |
| Songwriters | Gladys Shelley, Jerry Whitman, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore |
| Audio | |
| "Experience Unnecessary" on YouTube | |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Billboard | positive[1] ("Spotlight" pick) |
"Experience Unnecessary" is a song that was a hit in 1955 as recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Hugo Peretti and his orchestra for Mercury Records.
Vaughan's version is credited to Gladys Shelley, Jerry Whitman, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore.[2]
Critical reception
Billboard reviewed Sarah Vaughan's recording (Mercury 70646, coupled with "Slowly with Feeling") in its issue from 11 June 1955, praising the "pleasant melody", the "clever lyrics" and the "rich" and "sultry" vocals "in the best Vaughan tradition". "The canary has a way with a sexy lyric, as witness her recent click disks, and this new side packs the same emotional appeal," wrote the reviewer.[1]
Commercial performance
On 9 July 1955, the Billboard magazine featured Sarah Vaughan's single in its "This Week's Best Buys" column, noting that "while this [had] not been one of [her] faster moving disks", it was "beginning to show a fine spread of good sales reports" and was "shaping as a record with chart potential."[3]
In the issue from 16 July, the single charted on Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys chart at number 14.[4] Moreover, on 16 and 23 July, the single appeared on the Coming Up Strong chart at numbers 10 and 9, respectively.[5][6]