Mel Tormé - Mel Tormé Collection
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Track List: Mel Tormé Collection
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Disc 1:
- Where Or When - Mel Torme
- A Stranger In Town - Mel Torme
- Day By Day - Mel Torme
- Willow Road - Mel Torme
- Born To Be Blue - Mel Torme
- What Is This Thing Called Love - Mel Torme
- Get Out Of Town - Mel Torme
- For You, For Me, Forevermore - Mel Torme
- It's Dreamtime - Mel Torme
- Gone With The Wind - Mel Torme
- A Cottage For Sale - Mel Torme
- Makin' Whoopee - Mel Torme
- Night And Day - Mel Torme
- County Fair - Mel Torme
- Three Little Words - Mel Torme
- Love Or Leave Me - Mel Torme
- How High The Moon - Mel Torme
- Careless Hands - Mel Torme
- Blue Moon - Mel Torme
- Again - Mel Torme
- The Four Winds And The Seven Seas - Mel Torme
- Got The Gate On The Golden Gate - Mel Torme
- Cross Your Heart - Mel Torme
- Betwitched - Mel Torme
- It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - Mel Torme
- All Of You - Mel Torme
Disc 2:
- That Old Black Magic - Mel Torme
- Mountain Greenery - Mel Torme
- Bernie's Tune - Mel Torme
- Goody, Goody - Mel Torme
- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Mel Torme
- All This And Heaven Too - Mel Torme
- Isn't It Romantic - Mel Torme
- Lulu's Back In Town - Mel Torme
- The Blues - Mel Torme
- Lullaby In Birdland - Mel Torme
- The Carioca - Mel Torme
- Facinating Rhythm - Mel Torme
- The Lady Is A Tramp - Mel Torme
- If Got Plenty Of Nuthin' - Mel Torme
- Nice Work If You Can Get It - Mel Torme
- The Way You Look Tonight - Mel Torme
- A Foggy Day - Mel Torme
- Something's Gotta Give - Mel Torme
- Cheek To Cheek - Mel Torme
- Just One Of Those Things - Mel Torme
- I'm Beginning To See The Light - Mel Torme
- It's All Right With Me - Mel Torme
- Autum Leaves - Mel Torme
- Poor Little Extra Girl - Mel Torme
Disc 3:
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkely Square - Mel Torme
- These Foolish Things - Mel Torme
- Try A Little Tenderness - Mel Torme
- Prelude To A Kiss - Mel Torme
- I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - Mel Torme
- Blues In The Night - Mel Torme
- Vaya Con Dios - Mel Torme
- Frenesi - Mel Torme
- At The Crossroads (Malaguena) - Mel Torme
- It Happened In Montery - Mel Torme
- Too Close For Comfort - Mel Torme
- Swingin' On The Moon - Mel Torme
- Medley: Far Away From Home/Angelina - Mel Torme
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - Mel Torme
- Sent For You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today) - Mel Torme
- By Myself - Mel Torme
- (Ah, The Apple Trees) When The World Was Young - Mel Torme
- It's Delovely - Mel Torme
- Dat Dere - Mel Torme
- On Green Dolphin Street - Mel Torme
- Walkin' Shoes - Mel Torme
Disc 4:
- Comin' Home Baby - Mel Torme
- Right Now - Mel Torme
- Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Mel Torme
- Hey, Look Me Over! - Mel Torme
- Forty Second Street - Mel Torme
- Sunday In New York - Mel Torme
- You'd Better Love Me - Mel Torme
- I've Got You Under My Skin - Mel Torme
- The Folks That Live On The Hill - Mel Torme
- Haven't We Met - Mel Torme
- Stranger In The Night - Mel Torme
- A Day In The Life Of Bonnie And Clyde - Mel Torme
- Yesterday When I Was Young - Mel Torme
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life - Mel Torme
- Gershwin Medley: I Got Rhythm/Mine/Do-Do-Do/'S Won - Mel Torme
- Pick Yourself Up - Mel Torme
- The Best Is Yet To Come - Mel Torme
- Zaz Turned Blue - Mel Torme
- Big City Blues - Mel Torme
- Theme From Arthur (Best That You Can Do) - Mel Torme
- The Chritmas Song - Mel Torme
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Album Details: Mel Tormé Collection
- Release Date:
- 06/04/1996
- Label:
- Rhino Records
- UPC:
- 081227158927
Pro Reviews: Mel Tormé Collection
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Up until he suffered a stroke at age 70 in 1996, singer Mel Tormé continued to improve with age and seemed to have inexhaustible energy. This four-CD set from Rhino does a fine job of covering Tormé's pre-Concord output, although the omission of his Concord work of 1986-1995 is unfortunate for that catalog contains many of Tormé's most exciting recordings. In general, the earlier selections (some of which were with his vocal group the Mel-Tones) feature Tormé on hip (for the period) swing tunes and ballads. By the time he cut the sessions included on this set from 1954, the singer was quite mature and sounding very much like himself. The small group dates of the 1950s are generally much more rewarding than some of the slower numbers in which Tormé is accompanied by string orchestras and the 1956-1960 collaborations with the Marty Paich Dek-tette are classic. But once the 1960s hit, Tormé's career (at least on records) started to quickly decline. Although disc four (which covers 1962-1985) does its best to focus on Tormé's better recordings of the period, a few of the tracks (such as "Strangers in the Night," "A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde," and "Yesterday When I Was Young") are pretty sappy. Things greatly improve once the singer reaches the year 1975 and there are enough high points throughout the set to justify its purchase by Tormé's many fans. Three previously unreleased selections (best is "Walkin' Shoes" with Shorty Rogers in 1962) are a plus and the colorful 84-page booklet is quite definitive. - Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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Mel Tormé is a genuine Renaissance man -- one of the top jazz singers of the last third of the century but also a superb writer, a good arranger, a more-than-competent drummer, a songwriter with a number of standards to his credit, a versatile actor...Full Mel Tormé Biography
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