Artist: Mel Torme Title: Mel Torme's Finest Hour Year Of Release: 2001 Label: Verve Records[549 673-2] Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps Total Time: 59:48 Total Size: 323 MB(+3%) | 142 MB(+3%) WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
1 A Stranger In Town 2 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 3 Mountain Greenery 4 The Hut Sut Song 5 Cement Mixer 6 House Is Haunted By The Echo Of Your Last Goodbye 7 I Don't Want To Cry Anymore 8 What Is This Thing Called Love 9 It Happened In Monterey 10 Too Close For Comfort 11 Whatever Lola Wants 12 Born To Be Blue 13 A Shine On Your Shoes 14 At The Crossroads (Malaguena) 15 Nina 16 I'm Gonna Go Fishin 17 Down For Double 18 I Loved You Once In Silence 19 What's New At The Zoo? 20 Don't Let That Moon Get Away 21 Velvet Moon
Mel Tormé's Finest Hour leads off with a Decca recording from 1944 but otherwise concentrates on Tormé's stints with the Coral and Verve labels between 1953-1960. Tormé's tight arrangements and smooth crooning made him a natural crossover artist, but he charted no pop hits during this period. Nonetheless, the recordings compiled here are broadly appealing, particularly on songs such as "What Is This Thing Called Love?" that prominently feature Tormé's jazz-pop vocal group, the Mel-Tones. "At the Crossroads (Malagueña)" vacillates between Bill Haley-style rock-a-boogie rhythms and big-band swing, and "What's New at the Zoo?" -- a duet with Margaret Whiting -- is a silly novelty with a rock & roll guitar solo. "The Hut Sut Song" and Slim Gaillard's "Cement Mixer" are novelties, too, but ones that jazz purists will find less offensive. In between, there are a number of serious jazz vocal performances and sweetly orchestrated romantic ballads of the sort that earned Tormé the nickname of "the Velvet Fog." Tormé's 1954 recording of his holiday standard "The Christmas Song" is also included, making Mel Tormé's Finest Hour an inclusive and diverse sampling of music from a versatile artist and exemplary vocalist.~ Greg Adams
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