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Mel Tormé and Margaret Whiting are backed by arranger Russell Garcia's orchestra on this album dedicated to songs from Broadway musicals that were popular around the time of these 1960 sessions. While a few of the songs caught on for a time following the closing of the shows from which they came, only "Make Someone Happy" has had any staying power over the long run; unfortunately, this uninspired arrangement features Whiting alone. Tormé's jazz chops make him a far more interesting vocalist, as he improvises up a storm in his duet with Whiting in the loping "Tall Hopes." Their chemistry is better in "All You Need Is a Quarter" and they have fun with the silly ditty "What's New at the Zoo?," which detours into a rock setting. Even Tormé is handicapped with the plodding march tempo of the ballad "From a Prison Cell." Long out of print, this Verve LP seems unlikely to be reissued.
© Ken Dryden /TiVo
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Jule Styne, ComposerLyricist - Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Adolph Green, ComposerLyricist - Betty Comden, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Green, Composer - Jule Styne, Composer - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Betty Comden, Composer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, MainArtist - CY COLEMAN, ComposerLyricist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Vivien Leigh, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, MainArtist - Frederick Loewe, ComposerLyricist - Alan Jay Lerner, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jule Styne, Composer - Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Adolph Green, Composer - Betty Comden, Composer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, MainArtist - CY COLEMAN, ComposerLyricist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - CAROLYN LEIGH, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jule Styne, Composer - Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Adolph Green, Composer - Betty Comden, Composer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Frederick Loewe, ComposerLyricist - Alan Jay Lerner, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - David William Heneker, Author - Alexandre Breffort, Author - Julian More, Author - Marguerite Angèle Monnot, Composer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, MainArtist - Marguerite Angèle Monnot, Composer - A. Breffort, Composer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jule Styne, Composer - Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - Adolph Green, Author - Betty Comden, Author - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Adams, ComposerLyricist - Lukasz Gottwald, ComposerLyricist - Henry Walter, ComposerLyricist - Mel TORME, MainArtist - Margaret Whiting, MainArtist - CAROLYN LEIGH, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Mel Tormé and Margaret Whiting are backed by arranger Russell Garcia's orchestra on this album dedicated to songs from Broadway musicals that were popular around the time of these 1960 sessions. While a few of the songs caught on for a time following the closing of the shows from which they came, only "Make Someone Happy" has had any staying power over the long run; unfortunately, this uninspired arrangement features Whiting alone. Tormé's jazz chops make him a far more interesting vocalist, as he improvises up a storm in his duet with Whiting in the loping "Tall Hopes." Their chemistry is better in "All You Need Is a Quarter" and they have fun with the silly ditty "What's New at the Zoo?," which detours into a rock setting. Even Tormé is handicapped with the plodding march tempo of the ballad "From a Prison Cell." Long out of print, this Verve LP seems unlikely to be reissued.
© Ken Dryden /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:12
- Main artists: Mel Tormé Margaret Whiting
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz
© 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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