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Mel Torm
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Mel Torm
Born
September 13, 1925 in Chicago, IL

Died
June 5, 1999

Years Active:
50s | 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s

 
Mel Tormé was a jazz-oriented pop singer who worked at his craft steadily from the 1940s to the 1990s, primarily in nightclubs and concert halls. In his 1988 autobiography, It Wasn't All Velvet (its title a reference to his nickname, "The Velvet Fog," bestowed upon him by a disc jockey in the 1940s to describe his husky, wide-ranging voice), he mentioned a wish that he had been born ten years earlier, that is, in 1915 rather than 1925. ...
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Selected Discography:
  Album Title Released Label Price
The Best Of Mel Tormé - The Millennium Collection



2005 Hip-O Records $6.99
Mel Torme's Finest Hour



2001 Verve $6.99
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