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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Where or When - (with The Mel-Tones)
2. Stranger in Town, A
3. Day by Day - (with Mel Torme & The Mel-Tones/Bing Crosby)
4. Willow Road
5. Born to Be Blue
6. What Is This Thing Called Love - (with Mel Torme & The Mel-Tones/Artie Shaw & His Orchestra)
7. Get Out of Town - (with Artie Shaw & His Orchestra)
8. For You, For Me, Forevermore - (with Artie Shaw & His Orchestra)
9. It's Dreamtime
10. Gone With the Wind
11. Cottage For Sale, A
12. Makin' Whoopee
13. Night and Day
14. County Fair
15. Three Little Words - (previously unreleased)
16. Love Me or Leave Me
17. How High the Moon
18. Careless Hands
19. Blue Moon
20. Again
21. Four Winds and the Seven Seas, The
22. Got the Gate on the Golden Gate
23. Cross Your Heart
24. Bewitched
25. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
26. All of You
DISC 2:
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Mountain Greenery
3. Bernie's Tune
4. Goody, Goody
5. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
6. All This and Heaven Too
7. Isn't It Romantic
8. Lulu's Back in Town
9. Blues, The
10. Lullaby of Birdland
11. Carioca, The
12. Fascinating Rhythm
13. Lady Is a Tramp, The
14. I've Got Plenty of Nuthin'
15. Nice Work If You Can Get It
16. Way You Look Tonight, The
17. Foggy Day, A
18. Something's Gotta Give
19. Cheek to Cheek
20. Just One of Those Things
21. I'm Beginning to See the Light
22. It's All Right With Me
23. Autumn Leaves
24. Poor Little Extra Girl
DISC 3:
1. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A
2. These Foolish Things
3. Try a Little Tenderness
4. Prelude to a Kiss
5. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
6. Blues in the Night
7. Vaya con Dios
8. Frenesi
9. At the Crossroads (Malaguena)
10. It Happened in Monterey
11. Too Close For Comfort
12. Swingin' on the Moon
13. Medley: From "Wildcat": Far Away From Home / Angelina - (with Margaret Whiting)
14. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
15. Sent For You Yesterday (And Here Comes Today)
16. By Myself
17. When the World Was Young, (Ah, The Apple Trees)
18. It's Delovely
19. Dat Dere
20. On Green Dolphin Street
21. Walkin' Shoes - (previously unreleased)
DISC 4:
1. Comin' Home Baby
2. Right Now
3. Cast Your Fate to the Winds
4. Hey, Look Me Over!
5. Forty Second Street
6. Sunday in New York
7. You'd Better Love Me
8. I've Got You Under My Skin
9. Folks That Live on the Hill, The
10. Haven't We Met
11. Strangers in the Night
12. Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde, A
13. Yesterday When I Was Young
14. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
15. Gershwin Medley: I Got Rhythm / Mine / Do-Do-Do / 'S Wonderful / Embraceable You / Love Walked In / Love Is Here To Stay / Oh, Lady Be Good / A Foggy Day / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Oh Bess, O Where's My Bess / Who Cares / Love Is Sweeping T
16. Pick Yourself Up
17. Best Is Yet to Come, The
18. Zaz Turned Blue - (Not Was, with Was (Not Was))
19. Big City Blues - (with Barry Manilow)
20. Theme From "Arthur" (Best That You Can Do) - (previously unreleased)
21. Christmas Song, The
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Mel Torme (vocals, piano); Shorty Rogers (leader, arranger, flugelhorn); Marty Paich (leader, arranger, piano, celeste); Sonny Burke, Frank DeVol, Billy May, Russell Garcia, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Williams, Robert Mersey, Mort Garson, Lincoln Mayorga (leaders, arrangers); Al Pellegrini (leader, clarinet, piano); Artie Shaw (leader, clarinet); Hal Mooney, Pete Rugolo, George Cates (leaders); Bing Crosby, Barry Manilow, Margaret Whiting, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, The Starlighters, The Dave Lambert Singers (vocals); Bud Shank, Harry Klee (saxophone, flute); Ronnie Lang, Skeets Herfurt, Hynie Gunkler (saxophone, clarinet); Bob Enevoldsen (saxophone, trombone, bass clarinet); Chuck Gentry (saxophone, bass clarinet); Babe Russin, Ted Nash, Dave Pell, Joe Krecther, Harold Lawson, Don Raffell, Art Pepper, Bill Perkins, Bob Lawson, Jules Jacob, Jules Kinsler, Bill Hood, Jack DuLong, Gerry Mulligan, Les Robinson, Gus Bivona, Mort Friedman, Alex Gershunoff, Harry Schuchman, Gene Cipriano, Justin Gordon, Wilbur Schwartz, Teddy Edwards, Charlie Kennedy, Joe Maini, Georgie Auld (saxophone); Stu Williamson (trumpet, valve trombone); Clyde Hurley, Ray Linn, George Wendt, Rubin Zarchy, Mannie Klein, Charles Marlowe, George Seaberg, Ziggy Elman, Uan Rasey, Joe Triscari, Conrad Gozzo, Tony Faso, Louis Mucci, Johnny Best, Frank Beach, Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Howard McGhee, Marion Childers, Richard Collins, Jack Sheldon, Al Porcino, John Anderson, Ray Triscari, Joe Burnett, Oliver Mitchell, Buddy Childers (trumpet); William Atkinson, Francis Howard, Les Jenkins, Ed Kusby, Elmer Smithers, Si Zentner, Ollie Wilson, Carl Loeffler, Walter Benson, Pullman Pederson, Collen Satterwhite, Bill Schaefer, Kai Winding, Lloyd Ulyate, George Roberts, Frank Rosolino, Tommy Pederson, Dave Wells, Dick Nash (trombone); Vince DeRosa, Jack Kirksmith, Richard Perissi, James Stagliano, Huntington Burdick, Al Richman, John Cave, James Decker (French horn); Red Callendar, Albert Pollan, John Kitzmiller (tuba); Harold Lewis, Eddie Rosa, Ethmer Roten, Wilbur Schwartz (flute); Bill Ullyate (bass clarinet); Gordon Pope, Arnold Koblentz (oboe); Charles Graver, Jules Seder (bassoon); Larry Bunker (accordion, bongos); Benny Carter, Plas Johnson (woodwinds); Harry Bluestone, Sam Freed, Howard Halbert, George Kast, Eugene Lamas, Dan Lube, Jan Russell, Mischa Russell, Marshall Sosson, Olcott Vail, Sam Cytron, David Frisina, Howard Halbert, Nick Pisani, Edward Bergman, Walter Edelstein, Jacques Gasselin, Anthony Olson, Felix Slatkin, Erno Neufeld, Israel Baker, Anatol Kaminsky, Marvin Limonick, Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure, Irma Neumann, Sarah Kreindler (violin); Paul Robyn, Stanley Spiegelman, David Sterkin, Sam Freed, Maurice Perlmutter, Virginia Majewski, Alvin Dinkin, Allan Harshman, Myron Sandler, Joseph DiFiore, Jill B. Jaffe (viola); Cy Bernard, Fred Goerner, Edgar Lustgarten, Nicolas Ochi-Albi, Arthur Kafton, Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, George Neikrug, Paul Bergstrom, Armand Kaproff, Margaret Aue (cello); Ann Mason, Kathryn Thompson, Gail Laughton, June Weiland, Cheryll Butterman, Corky Hale, Stella Castellucci, Richard Cornell, Verlye Mills, Marcia Johnstone, Dorothy Remsen (harp); Ralph Hansell (vibraphone, xylophone); Larry Bunker (vibraphone, marimba, drums); Victor Feldman, Gene Estes, Emil Richards, Gary Coleman (vibraphone); Alvin Stoller, Shelly Manne, Lou Singer (marimba, drums, percussion); Milt Raskin, Dodo Marmarosa (piano, celeste); Eugene DiNovi (piano, organ); Buddy Cole, Jimmy Rowles, Mark McIntyre, Walter Weschler, Buddy Neal, Teddy Napoleon, Ralph Sharon, Geoff Clarkson, Jimmy Wisner, Mike Wofford, Lou Levy, Dave Grusin, Michael Melvoin, Mike Renzi, Cy Coleman, Billy Mays (piano); Arnold Ross (celeste); Luis Resto (synthesizer); Dave Barbour, Al Hendrickson, Vito Mumulo, Barney Kessel, Allan Reuss, George Van Eps, Barry Galbraith, Bill Pitman, Bob Gibbons, Joe Gibbons, Tony Rizzi, Howard Roberts, Laurindo Almeida, Michael ...
Industry Reviews
...a comprehensive, beautifully, packaged four-CD compilation of 41 years in the recording career of one of the most able crooners of the Martin/Arnaz generation, Mel Torme. He's a real musician, and it shows in the dozens of bravura performances...
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