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==Awards and honors== The album ''[[Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown]]'' and the single "[[If You Could See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]]" were inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]], an award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and have "qualitative or historical significance."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |title=Grammy Hall of Fame |publisher=GRAMMY.org |access-date=November 3, 2011 |archive-date=February 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219001619/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1985 she received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], and in 1988 she was inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame. In 1978, she was given an Honorary Doctorate of Music by [[Berklee College of Music]].<ref name="recip">{{cite web |title=Honorary Degree Recipients |url=https://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary-degree-recipients |website=www.berklee.edu |access-date=September 27, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> [[Howard University]] presented Vaughan with an Honorary Doctorate of Music in 1982. [https://secretary.howard.edu/resources/sarah-lois-vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan | Howard University Office of the Secretary] In 2012, she was inducted into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]].<ref name="njhall">{{cite web |title=Sarah Vaughan |url=https://njhalloffame.org/hall-of-famers/2012-inductees/sarah-vaughan/ |website=New Jersey Hall of Fame |access-date=September 27, 2018 |date=April 14, 2014}}</ref> In 2004β2006, [[New Jersey Transit]] paid tribute to Vaughan in the design of its [[Newark Light Rail]] stations. Passengers stopping at any station on this line can read the lyrics to "Body and Soul" along the edge of the station platform.<ref name="rail">{{cite web |title=Newark, New Jersey Light Rail/City Subway |url=https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey_Light_Rail/City_Subway |website=www.nycsubway.org |access-date=September 27, 2018 }}</ref> She was given the [[The George and Ira Gershwin Award|George and Ira Gershwin Award]] for Lifetime Musical Achievement at the [[UCLA Spring Sing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uclalumni.net/CalendarEvents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927221758/http://www.uclalumni.net/calendarevents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |title=Student Alumni Association | UCLA Alumni |publisher=Uclalumni.net |access-date=November 3, 2011}}</ref> In 2003, San Francisco and [[Berkeley, California]], made by proclamations March 27 Sarah Lois Vaughan Day.<ref name="Riley">{{cite web |last1=Riley |first1=Ricky |title=Jazz Legend Sarah Vaughan Joins Other Black Music Greats with Commemorative Stamp |url=https://atlantablackstar.com/2016/04/02/jazz-legend-sarah-vaughan-joins-other-black-music-greats-with-commemorative-stamp/ |website=Atlanta Black Star |access-date=September 27, 2018 |date=April 2, 2016}}</ref> ===Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition=== The [[James Moody Jazz Festival]] hosts an annual jazz vocalist competition named for Vaughan. The Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition is also known as the SASSY Awards for Vaughan's nickname.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.twincitiesjazzfestival.com/one-last-look-back-the-2022-td-james-moody-jazz-festival/|title=One Last Look Back β The 2022 TD James Moody Jazz Festival|first=Jazz|last=Police|date=November 9, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/new-jersey/article/12th-Annual-TD-James-Moody-Jazz-Festival-Returns-to-NJPAC-in-November-20230912|title=12th Annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival Returns to NJPAC in November|first=Stephi|last=Wild|website=BroadwayWorld.com}}</ref>
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