On the Street Where You Live - Mel Torm?, Lerner, Alan Jay
All I Need Is a Girl - Mel Torm?,
Just in Time - Mel Torm?, Comden, Betty
Hello Young Lovers - Mel Torm?, Hammerstein, Oscar
Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Mel Torm?, Hammerstein, Oscar
Old Devil Moon - Mel Torm?, Harburg, E.Y. "Yip"
Whatever Lola Wants - Mel Torm?,
Too Darn Hot - Mel Torm?, Porter, Cole
Lonely Town - Mel Torm?, Bernstein
Makin' Whoopee - Mel Torm?, Donaldson, Walter
Bubbles, Bangles and Beads - Mel Torm?,
What Is This Thing Called Love - Mel Torm?, Porter, Cole
I've Never Been in Love Before - Mel Torm?, Loesser, Frank
Truckin' - Mel Torm?,
A Bunch of the Blues/Keester Parade/TNT/Tiny's Blues - Mel Torm?,
It Happened in Monterey - Mel Torm?, Rose, Billy [Lyrici
I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You - Mel Torm?, Noble, Ray
A Smooth One - Mel Torm?,
Li'l Darlin' - Mel Torm?, Hefti, Neal
Some Like It Hot - Mel Torm?, Loesser, Frank
Hit the Road to Dreamland - Mel Torm?, Arlen, Harold
The two albums compiled on this CD provide the only existing testimony of singer/drummer Mel Tormé accompanied by the great Art Pepper. The combination is sublime, for Pepper?s sound seems to fit particularly well beh... more »ind Tormé?s voice. The other important collaboration on these sessions is the one between Tormé and celebrated arranger Marty Paich. However, these are by no means their only works together as they collaborated many times. The two albums contained on this CD present two different concepts. The first one gives us extraordinary Paich arrangements of Broadway standards, some of them well-known melodies that became Jazz standards, while others have passed into relative obscurity. The second LP is a reunion of the famous Tormé vocal group, The Mel-Tones, which made its first recordings in 1944. 24 tracks. Lonehill. 2007.« less
The two albums compiled on this CD provide the only existing testimony of singer/drummer Mel Tormé accompanied by the great Art Pepper. The combination is sublime, for Pepper?s sound seems to fit particularly well behind Tormé?s voice. The other important collaboration on these sessions is the one between Tormé and celebrated arranger Marty Paich. However, these are by no means their only works together as they collaborated many times. The two albums contained on this CD present two different concepts. The first one gives us extraordinary Paich arrangements of Broadway standards, some of them well-known melodies that became Jazz standards, while others have passed into relative obscurity. The second LP is a reunion of the famous Tormé vocal group, The Mel-Tones, which made its first recordings in 1944. 24 tracks. Lonehill. 2007.