Editing Sarah Vaughan (section)

===1948–1953: Stardom and the Columbia years===
The musicians' union ban pushed Musicraft to the brink of bankruptcy. Vaughan used the missed royalty payments as an opportunity to sign with the larger [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] record label. After the settling of legal issues, her chart successes continued with "[[Black Coffee (1948 song)|Black Coffee]]" in the summer of 1949. While at Columbia through 1953, she was steered almost exclusively to commercial pop ballads, several with success on the charts: "[[That Lucky Old Sun]]", "Make Believe (You Are Glad When You're Sorry)", "I'm Crazy to Love You", "Our Very Own", "I Love the Guy", "Thinking of You" (with pianist [[Bud Powell]]), "[[I Cried for You]]", "These Things I Offer You", "Vanity", "I Ran All the Way Home", "Saint or Sinner", "My Tormented Heart", and "Time".

She won ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine's New Star Award for 1947, awards from ''[[Down Beat]]'' magazine from 1947 to 1952, and from ''Metronome'' magazine from 1948 to 1953. Recording and critical success led to performing opportunities, with Vaughan singing to large crowds in clubs around the country during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the summer of 1949, she made her first appearance with a symphony orchestra in a benefit for the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] entitled "100 Men and a Girl." Around this time, Chicago disk jockey [[Dave Garroway]] coined a second nickname for her, "The Divine One", that would follow her throughout her career. One of her early television appearances was on [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]'s variety show ''[[Stars on Parade (TV series)|Stars on Parade]]'' (1953–54) in which she sang "[[My Funny Valentine]]" and "Linger Awhile".

In 1949, with their finances improving, Vaughan and Treadwell bought a three-story house on 21 Avon Avenue in Newark, occupying the top floor during their increasingly rare off-hours at home and moving Vaughan's parents to the lower two floors. However, business pressures and personality conflicts led to a cooling in Treadwell and Vaughan's relationship. Treadwell hired a road manager to handle her touring needs and opened a management office in Manhattan so he could work with other clients.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

Vaughan's relationship with Columbia soured as she became dissatisfied with the commercial material and its lackluster financial success. She made some small-group recordings in 1950 with Miles Davis and Bennie Green, but they were atypical of what she recorded for Columbia.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

====Radio====
In 1949, Vaughan had a radio program, ''Songs by Sarah Vaughan'', on [[WEPN (AM)#WMGM|WMGM]] in New York City. The 15-minute shows were broadcast in the evenings on Wednesday through Sunday from The Clique Club, described as "rendezvous of the bebop crowd."<ref name=bb/> She was accompanied by [[George Shearing]] on piano, [[Oscar Pettiford]] on double bass, and <!-- No better source without a typo ("Clark"), but enough to confirm it was indeed ... -->[[Kenny Clarke]] on drums.<ref name=bb>{{cite magazine|title=Songs by Sarah Vaughan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT8|access-date=September 29, 2016 |magazine=Billboard |date=January 22, 1949 |page=9}}</ref>