Live with the Mel-Tones, Vol. 2

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  • Mel Tormé Sings His Own California Suite
  • Live at the Crescendo
  • It's a Blue World
  • Sings Fred Astaire
  • Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette
  • At the Crescendo
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • Songs for Any Taste
  • Mel Tormé's California Suite [Bethlehem]
  • Tormé
  • Olé Tormé
  • Back in Town
  • Swings Shubert Alley
  • Swingin' on the Moon
  • Broadway, Right Now!
  • My Kind of Music
  • I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count!
  • The Duke Ellington and Count Basie Songbooks
  • Comin' Home Baby!
  • Sings Sunday in New York and Other Songs About New York
  • That's All
  • Right Now!
  • A Time for Us (Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet)
  • Mel Torme At The Red Hill/Live At The Maisonette
  • The London Sessions
  • Together Again: For the First Time
  • Encore at Marty's, New York
  • An Evening With George Shearing & Mel Torme
  • Top Drawer
  • An Evening at Charlie's
  • An Elegant Evening
  • Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
  • Reunion
  • In Concert Tokyo
  • A Vintage Year
  • Night at the Concord Pavilion
  • Fujitsu-Concord Festival (1990)
  • Mel and George "Do" World War II
  • Nothing Without You
  • Christmas Songs
  • Sing, Sing, Sing: Live at the Fujitsu Festival 1992
  • The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub
  • A Tribute to Bing Crosby
  • Velvet & Brass
  • A&E Presents an Evening With Mel Tormé: Live From the Disney Institute
  • In New York
  • Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
  • The Classic Concert Live
  • Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette [Blue Note Japan]

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Release Date

June 2, 1998

Duration

43:11

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

July 6, 1948 - October 5, 1948
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Live with the Mel-Tones, Vol. 2

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The second and final volume in Mr. Music's series on one of the best vocal groups of the '40s, Live With the Mel-Tones, Vol. 2 unfortunately includes only six performances by the group, but they are fine. "What Is This Thing Called Love?," a group specialty, proceeds with a radically different arrangement (probably by Tormé himself), while "How High the Moon" has all the pop and zing listeners expect. As on the first volume, Tormé uses his solo performances to duet with the hideously untalented Janet Waldo, but also wraps his velvety voice around a pair of melancholy standards ("I Get Along Without You Very Well," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)").

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
1
Harry James / Kay Swift
Mel Tormé
2:12
2
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Mel Tormé
feat: Janet Waldo
2:50
3
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
Mel Tormé
2:33
4
Cole Porter
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
2:14
5
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler / Cole Porter
Mel Tormé
1:48
6
Harold Rome / White
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
2:36
7
William Dunham / Walter Kent
Mel Tormé
1:49
8
Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
Mel Tormé
feat: Janet Waldo
1:55
9
Grant Clarke
Mel Tormé
1:37
10
Dean Elliott / Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
3:14
11
Roy Alfred / Marvin Fisher
Mel Tormé
1:43
12
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
Mel Tormé
feat: Janet Waldo
2:07
13
Harry Barris / Ted Koehler / Billy Moll
Mel Tormé
1:50
14
Dave Dreyer / Al Jolson / Billy Rose
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
2:39
15
Hoagy Carmichael
Mel Tormé
1:56
16
Bernard Miller
Mel Tormé
feat: Sydney Miller
2:18
17
Frederick Hollander / Leo Robin
Mel Tormé
2:12
18
Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
2:23
19
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne
Mel Tormé
2:06
20
Dean Elliott / Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
feat: Mel Tormé & the Mel-Tones
1:09
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