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Mel Tormé
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Velvet Fog, Mel Torme, Melvin Howard Torme
American recording artist (1925–1999)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1925
- Died
- 1999
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The Christmas song
- My singing teachers
- The other side of the rainbow
- Wynner
- Traps, the drum wonder
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1925-09-13
- Active to
- 1999-06-05
Discography
- It's a Blue World1955
- George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess1956
- Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette1956
- Musical Sounds Are The Best Songs1956
- Sings Fred Astaire1956
- Gene Norman Presents Mel Torme at the Crescendo1957
- Mel Tormé's California Suite1957
- The Touch of Your Lips1957
- Tormé1958
- Songs for Any Taste1959
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 730,863
- Total plays
- 4,176,570
Tags
Melvin Howard Tormé (1925–1999) was born to immigrant Russian Jewish parents whose name had been Torma. A child prodigy, he first sang professionally at 4 with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy," at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant. 1933-41, he acted in the network radio serials "The Romance of Helen Trent" and "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy." He wrote his first song at 13 and three years later, his first published song, "Lament to Love," became a hit recording fo
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2001 · cited 10,178x
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· 2013 · cited 8,718x
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· 2016 · cited 3,755x
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
· 2019 · cited 3,520x
- Electronegativity: The density functional viewpoint
· 1978 · cited 3,178x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.meltorme.com
- Image
- Mel Tormé (1979).jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1925-09-13
- date of death
- 1999-06-05
- Commons category
- Mel Tormé
- birth name
- Melvin Howard Tormé
- nickname
- The Velvet Fog
- name in native language
- Mel Tormé
- start of work period
- 1929-00-00
- pseudonym
- Wesley Butler Wyatt
Sources (9)
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