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08-09-2003, 08:24 PM | #1 |
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The Velvet Fog!!!
Damn but I love Mel Torme. I'm listening to "Sing, Sing, Sing".....Mel live in Japan with his quintet. Great stuff and his clarinet player sounds just like my dad!
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08-19-2003, 10:16 PM | #2 |
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my man Mel Torme fantastic voice that is surely missed
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08-20-2003, 05:38 AM | #3 |
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But he looked more like a Velvet Frog.
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08-20-2003, 06:50 AM | #4 |
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Maybe but he sure didn't have any trouble getting the babes!
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08-20-2003, 10:53 AM | #5 |
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Man, I love the Christmas Song!
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08-20-2003, 01:07 PM | #6 |
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His renditions of the Basie and Ellington songbooks are tops. Love "I'm going to move (to the outskirts of town)".
And he wrote the lyrics to "Take the A Train", too.
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