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Title: The Quintet and Beyond
Artist: Mel Torm
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065907228
Genre: Crooners
Release Date: 2012-03-26
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: BOXED SET

Collection of early recordings from the Jazz composer and entertainer. Although Mel Torme allegedly disliked being tagged 'The Velvet Fog', the name certainly goes some way to describe his pitch perfect high baritone range, particularly during the early years of his singing career. And he was much more than a song stylist. At various stage he was a composer, conductor, instrumentalist, (drums and piano), actor, raconteur and author. Born in 1925, the young Mel showed signs of musical prowess, as a four year old he made his vocal debut with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra in Chicago. Later he was a child actor on radio. Aged 13, his first published song Lament to Love was recorded by Harry James. Later he made the first of several movie appearances. In 1944, the vocal quintet 'Mel Torme And His Mel-Tones' made a big impact on radio. He was on the way as a national star.

Tracks:
1.1 Stranger in Town
1.2 You've Laughed at Me for the Last Time
1.3 Am I Blue
1.4 Day By Day
1.5 Willow Road
1.6 I Got the Sun in the Morning
1.7 Try a Little Tenderness
1.8 It Happened in Monterey
1.9 Born to Be Blue
1.10 Get Out of Town
1.11 What Is This Thing Called Love
1.12 Changing My Tune
1.13 For You. for Me. for Evermore
1.14 Guilty
1.15 And So to Bed
1.16 Don't You Believe It Dear
1.17 A Little Kiss Each Morning
1.18 It's Dreamtime
1.19 You're Driving Me Crazy
1.20 Who Cares What People Say
1.21 I'm Yours
1.22 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
1.23 My Baby Just Cares for Me
1.24 Love, You Funny Thing
1.25 Dance Ballerina Dance
1.26 If I Had a Girl Like You
1.27 Until the Real Thing Comes Along
2.1 But Beautiful
2.2 Love Is the Sweetest Thing
2.3 Gone with the Wind
2.4 I Cover the Waterfront
2.5 County Fair
2.6 A Foggy Day in London Town
2.7 Makin' Whoopee!
2.8 Little White Lies
2.9 Night and Day
2.10 Three Little Words
2.11 Love Me or Leave Me
2.12 Do, Do, Do
2.13 Careless Hands
2.14 Stompin' at the Savoy
2.15 You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
2.16 Blue Moon
2.17 Again
2.18 The Four Winds and the Seven Seas
2.19 It's Too Late Now
2.20 Sonny Boy
2.21 Oh You Beautiful Doll
2.22 The Old Master Painter
2.23 I Hadn't Anyone Till You
2.24 Cross Your Heart
2.25 Skylark
2.26 Lullaby of the Leaves
2.27 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
3.1 The Original "California Suite": Mountain Desert Theme/The Golden West/We T
3.2 Recipe for Romance
3.3 My Buddy
3.4 You're a Heavenly Thing
3.5 Don't Fan the Flame
3.6 A Stranger in Town
3.7 Anything Can Happen Mambo
3.8 Blue Skies
3.9 Rose O'Day
3.10 Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
3.11 All of You
3.12 Spellbound
3.13 The Hut Sut Song
3.14 Cement Mixer
3.15 That Old Black Magic [Live]
3.16 Mountain Greenery [Live]
3.17 County Fair [Live]
3.18 The Christmas Song [Live]
4.1 Goody, Goody [Live]
4.2 Bernie's Tune [Live]
4.3 Ghost of a Chance
4.4 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
4.5 Prelude to a Kiss
4.6 I've Got the World on a String
4.7 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
4.8 I Surrender Dear
4.9 Don't Worry 'Bout Me
4.10 One Morning in May
4.11 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
4.12 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
4.13 Via Con Dios
4.14 Six Lessons from Madam la Zonga
4.15 Nina
4.16 Frenesi
4.17 South of the Border
4.18 Perfidia
4.19 The Rhumba Jumps
4.20 Malaguena (At the Crossroads)
4.21 Cuban Love Song
4.22 Rosita
4.23 Adios
4.24 Baia
4.25 Baubles, Bangles and Beads
4.26 A Sleepin' Bee
4.27 The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
4.28 All I Need Is the Gin