MEL TORME SINGS "I'VE GOT A WORLD THAT SWINGS" ON THE JAZZ CASUAL TV SHOW ........Casting "the Mel spell" over unsuspecting tag-along audience members. ........ ...MEL TORME, JOHN HENDRICKS AND MEL LEWIS SING "DOWN FOR DOUBLE"!!!!.......... MEL TORME AND GEORGE SHEARING PERFORM "SINCE I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU" AND "ALL GOD'S CHILLUN." ............ ....SEE MEL TORME JAM WITH BUDDY RICH ON THEIR TRIBUTE TO ELLA FITZGERALD, "LADY BE GOOD"
Mel Torme fans all over the world. This picture: Marty Paich, Red Clyde, and Mel Torme during his years with Bethlehem Records. MEL SINGS "WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT" AND "THE CARIOCA" WITH MARTY PAICH ARRANGEMENTS!!...... "GLOOMY SUNDAY" HAS THE UNFORTUNATE DISTINCTION OF BEING CONSIDERED THE SADDEST SONG EVER WRITTEN. LEGEND HAS IT THAT IT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A RASH OF SUICIDES BY ITS LOVELORN LISTENERS. SET TO PAINTER CHRIS EVITT'S SLIDE SHOW, THIS VERSION BY MEL IS ONE OF HIS MOST HAUNTING VOCALS EVER. (ARRANGEMENT BY MARTY PAICH)....... .........MEL TORME AND GEORGE SHEARING PERFORM "STARDUST" AND "THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT"
George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Wells, Jimmy Wisner Trio (Ace Tesone, Dave Levin), Ken Peplowski, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Marty Paich Dek-tette, Shorty Rogers, Lionel Hampton, Chico Marx, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Rich, Benny Barth Trio (Gary Long, Perry Lind) The Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra, Harry James, Jennifer Jane Leitham, John Colianni, Donny Osborne Jr., Brian Torff, John Campbell, Don Fagerquist, Max Bennett, Mel Lewis, Alvin Stoller, Herb Geller, John Hendricks, The Judy Garland Show, Jack Jones, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, Herbie Mann, Charlie Barnett Orchestra, Jimmie Lunsford, Anita O'day, Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Bob Dorough, Fred Astaire, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sammy Cahn, James Torme, Steve March Torme............ MEL TORME AND GEORGE SHEARING PERFORM A MEDLEY TRIBUTE TO COUNT BASIE AND A HYPER VERSION OF "LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER."
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Mel's Movies (his side career): 1999 Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
1998 Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
1995 Seinfeld: The Jimmy
1992 Night Court: Opportunity Knock Knocks, Part 1
1992 The Return of Spinal Tap
1992 Night Court: Shave and a Haircut
1991 Night Court: Santa on the Lam
1991 Night Court: Hey, Harry, F'Crying Out Loud--It's a Wonderful Life...Sorta
1991 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
1990 Colt Firearms Legends
1990 Night Court: Melvin and Harold
1989 Night Court: Strange Bedfellows
1989 Mel Tormé: Standing Room Only
1988 Night Court: I'm OK, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic
1988 The Snader Telescriptions: The Vocalists
1988 Daffy Duck: Quackbusters
1987 Night Court: Christine's Friend
1986 Night Court: Leon, We Hardly Knew Ye
1985 Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
1983 The Mel Torme Special
1983 Mel Torme
1983 Hotel
1982 Pray TV
1981 The Land of No Return
1981 Mel Torme and Della Reese in Concert
1975 Snowman
1971 One Night Stand: Lionel Hampton and an All-Star Jazz Ensemble
1969 Pineapple Rose
1967 The Lucy Show: Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map
1967 The Lucy Show: Main Street U.S.A.
1966 A Man Called Adam
1964 The Patsy
1964 Jazz Casual: Mel Torme
1963 The Judy Garland Show, Episode 15: The Christmas Special
1961 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960 Walk Like a Dragon
1959 The Big Operator
1959 Girls' Town
1958 The Fearmakers
1957 Playhouse 90: The Comedian
1954 The Jo Stafford Show [TV Series]
1950 The Duchess of Idaho
1948 So Dear to My Heart
1948 Words and Music
1947 Good News
1946 Janie Gets Married
1945 Let's Go Steady
1945 Junior Miss
1944 Ghost Catchers
1944 Higher and Higher
1944 Pardon My Rhythm
Meet the Singers, Vol. 2
Swing Era: George Shearing
Buddy Rich: Jazz Legend, Volume 2 - 1970-1987
Buddy Rich: Jazz Legend, Volume 1 - 1917-1970
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MEL SINGS "PRETTY LITTLE BLUESETTE" WITH THE BUDDY RICH BAND ON THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW; GREAT MELODY AND SCAT!...
Night Court...what else? Oh, and The Judy Garland Show. Mel Torme sang "Lady Be Good" with Ella Fitzgerald at the Grammy Awards in 1976, and if anyone can get a copy and post it on YouTube you will be called blessed by your children and your children's children. (We Will settle for the same pairing which performed together on The Gary Moore Show in 1960.)
powered by frazy.com ................ .....I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT THE MEL TORME COMMERCIAL FOR OLDSMOBILE IS BACK UP!!.......... MEL TORME, NAT KING COLE, AND JUNE CHRISTY SING "HOW HIGH THE MOON"
Mel wrote books, and he was a VERY good writer:The Other Side of the Rainbow by Mel Torme.
Traps, the Drum Wonder: The Life of Buddy Rich by Mel Torme.
It Wasn't All Velvet: An Autobiography by Mel Torme.
Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz by Mel Torme et al.
My Singing Teachers by Mel Torme.
Wynner by Mel Torme.
Resource book: Mel Torme: A Chronicle of His Recordings, Books, and Films" by George Hulme.
powered by frazy.com MEL TORME SINGS "SWEET GEORGIA BROWN" AND "JUST IN TIME" with Marty Paich conducting his own arrangements!
VERY EARLY MEL TORME VIDEO SINGING "APRIL SHOWERS"; DATE IS 23rd & 24th August 1950, Los Angeles THIS MAY BE THE OLDEST MUSICAL FILM OF MEL THAT I'VE SEEN: "THE BABY BOOGIE" IS FROM 1943 OR 1944: THAT PUTS MEL AT AGE 18 OR 19.
For vocals: Ella Fitzgerald, who Mel named "The high priestess of song/she can do no wrong." For drums, Buddy Rich (see videos below)..... ........ELLA FITZGERALD AND JOE PASS SING ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM'S "MEDITATION"