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1958 studio album by Mel Tormé

Tormé

Studio album by Mel Tormé

Released

1958

Recorded

June 25–27, 1958

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

40:06

Mel Tormé chronology

Mel Tormé Sings About Love
(1957)

Tormé
(1958)

¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May
(1959)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Tormé is a 1958 studio album by Mel Tormé, arranged by Marty Paich, his first album for Verve Records.

Track listing

"That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain) – 3:31
"Gloomy Sunday" (Sam M. Lewis, Rezso Seress) – 5:16
"Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 3:39
"Nobody's Heart" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 1:54
"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 2:57
"The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)" (Basil Adlam, Billy Rose) – 2:53
"Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 8:08
"I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" (Victor Schertzinger) – 3:07
"Where Can I Go Without You?" (Peggy Lee, Victor Young) – 3:28
"How Did She Look?" (Gladys Shelley, Abner Silver) – 3:25
"'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:16
"I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:33

Personnel

Performance

Mel Tormé - vocals
Marty Paich - arranger, conductor

References

Allmusic review
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1408. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
Tormé at AllMusic
Friedwald, Will (May 10, 2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780375421495 – via Google Books.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	It's a Blue World (1955) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (1956) Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956) Mel Tormé's California Suite (1957) Prelude to a Kiss (1957) Tormé Meets the British (1957) Tormé (1958) Back in Town (1959) ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (1959) Broadway, Right Now! (1961) Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1960) I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! (1960–61) Swingin' on the Moon (and Margaret Whiting, 1960–61) My Kind of Music (1961) Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York (1963) That's All (1964–66) Right Now! (1966) A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde (1968) Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969) Tormé: A New Album (1977) Together Again: For the First Time/When I Found You (and Buddy Rich, 1978) Top Drawer (and George Shearing, 1983) Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1988) Nothing Without You (and Cleo Laine, 1991) Christmas Songs (1992) A Tribute to Bing Crosby (1994) Velvet & Brass ( and Rob McConnell, 1995)
Live albums	Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1955) Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957) Songs for Any Taste (1957) Mel Tormé at the Red Hill (1962) Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette (1975) An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982) The Classic Concert Live (and Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, 1982) An Evening at Charlie's (and George Shearing, 1983) A Vintage Year (and George Shearing, 1987) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo (1988) Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990) Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990) Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990) Sing Sing Sing (1992) Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (1993) The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub (1992) An Evening with Mel Tormé (1996) Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (2001)
Selected singles	"Comin' Home Baby" (1962)

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