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Mel Torme
Mel Tormé Meets the British: The London Recordings 1956-1957
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. Limehouse Blues - Mel Torm?, Braham
2. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Mel Torm?, Maschwitz
3. I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Mel Torm?, Heatherton, Fred
4. These Foolish Things - Mel Torm?, Marvell, Holt
5. Geordie - Mel Torm?, Traditional
6. My One and Only Highland Fling - Mel Torm?, Gershwin
7. The White Cliffs of Dover - Mel Torm?, Burton
8. Danny Boy - Mel Torm?, Weatherly
9. Let There Be Love - Mel Torm?, Grant
10. Greensleeves - Mel Torm?, Traditional
11. Try a Little Tenderness - Mel Torm?, Campbell, Jimmy [Fi
12. London Pride - Mel Torm?, Coward, Noel
13. Walkin' Shoes - Mel Torm?, Mulligan
14. The Cuckoo in the Clock - Mel Torm?, Donaldson, Walter
15. Hooray for Love - Mel Torm?, Arlen
16. Shenandoah Valley - Mel Torm?, Torm?
17. Waltz for Young Lovers - Mel Torm?, Torm?
18. I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Mel Torm?, Loesser
19. Time Was - Mel Torm?, Prado
20. Ev'ry Which Way - Mel Torm?, Torm?

CD Details

All Artists: Mel Torme
Title: Mel Tormé Meets the British: The London Recordings 1956-1957
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sepia Recordings
Release Date: 5/13/2008
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Musicals, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5055122111139

Synopsis

Album Description

The late Mel Tormé left a wealth of highly regarded recordings made during his five-decade career. Most of his songs are re-issued on CD but the tracks here, recorded with top British musicians in London during his first British tour in 1956 and second tour a year later in 1957, have never made it to CD until now! A couple of tracks were only issued on 78s in Britain, and most of the tracks were never issued at all in the US.

CD Reviews

Below Average, for Mel

Avec Frites | 09/04/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I own a dozen or more Torme CDs. He is my favorite singer. But this album is his worst, among the ones I own. Why? 1) Most people today have never heard of most of the songs; 2) The tempo is too slow.

A matter of taste, I suppose. I recommend these Torme albums instead:

1) The Bethlehem Years

2) Torme

3) Round Midnight

4) That's All

5) Swingin' On The Moon

"

Rare Mel Torme from the prime of his career

Kevin J. Roberts | 02/23/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's hard to believe the reviewer who said this album was poor because it was mostly slow ballads and "most people have never heard of most of the songs." What musical planet is he on? Some of these are among the best known songs in the world, and most are standards. Why was Mel called (to his dismay) the "Velvet Fog"? To a large part, because he had a reputation as a great singer of slow ballads. This is a superb album."

The lost Mel Torme album

Mark Schildberg | Houston, TX USA | 07/08/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mel Torme was in his prime in the mid-50s, but somehow this remarkable album has never been released in the U.S. before. The first 12 tracks are the album proper that he recorded with the great British arranger Wally Stott. Wait 'til you hear Mel swing "The White Cliffs of Dover"! This was also the first time that Mel recorded the gorgeous ballad "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," and he would sing it for the rest of his career. And then there's the daringly homoerotic folk ballad "Geordie," unlike anything Mel ever sang again, stunning in its dramatic impact. You also get eight bonus tracks that were recorded in England the year before, with various arrangers. This is a major discovery, and bravo to Sepia Records for finally bringing it to these shores."