''Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette'' is a 1975

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Mel Tormé Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Op ...

. Tormé had not released an album since 1969, and would not make any studio recordings until 1977, with the launch of '' Tormé: A New Album''. This live album was recorded privately, and sold to Atlantic Records; Tormé subsequently claimed never to have received any money from this recording. For the Gershwin medley, Tormé was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) at the

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Track listing

# Introduction – 1:06 # "Jet Set" (

) – 3:18 # " What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (

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, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:44 # " Mountain Greenery" (

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) – 3:16 # "It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone" (

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) – 4:37 # "

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" ( Bobby Troup) – 4:24 # Gershwin medley: " I Got Rhythm"/"Mine"/"Do-Do-Do"/"

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Embraceable You "Embraceable You" is a jazz standard song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named ''East Is West''. It was published in 1930 and included in that year's Broadway m ...

"/" Love Walked In"/" Love Is Here to Stay"/" Oh, Lady be Good!"/" A Foggy Day"/" How Long Has This Been Going On?"/"Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?"/" Who Cares?"/" Love is Sweeping the Country"/" Of Thee I Sing"/" Swanee"/" Strike Up the Band"/"I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" – 15:39 # "

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) – 3:22 # "

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" ( Adolph Green, Betty Comden,

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) – 1:42 All compositions on track seven by George Gershwin, with lyrics by

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, except " Swanee", lyrics by Irving Caesar, and "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise", lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva.

Personnel

Performance

- vocals,

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and his Orchestra

References

Mel Tormé live albums 1975 live albums Atlantic Records live albums {{1970s-jazz-album-stub