It's a Blue World

by Mel Torme

Overview

Mel Torme had spent the first decade of his solo career being treated by record companies as a pop singer when Bethlehem offered to treat him as a jazz artist in 1955. The label requested that his first album be a collection of ballads, probably noting the recent success of Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours. But Torme picked the songs, ranging from Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse's "Till the Clouds Roll By" from 1917 to Duke Ellington and Paul Webster's "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" from 1941. The 15-piece orchestra assembled by his accompanist Al Pellegrini backed the singer, and Pellegrini, Sandy Courage, Andre Previn, Marty Paich, and Russ Garcia wrote the arrangements Torme sang with delicate precision, caressing the lyrics. Despite the album title, his interpretations had none of the darkness of Sinatra. Rather, Torme invested the songs with warmth and confidence. Recorded and released around the time he turned 30, It's a Blue World marked a turning point in Mel Torme's recording career. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	06/07/2024
Label:	Ultra Vybe
UPC:	4526180699651
Rank:	235983

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mel Torme   Primary Artist
Marty Paich   Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Duke Ellington   Composer
Mort Dixon   Composer
Billy Rose   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Eddie DeLange   Composer
Ferde Grofe   Composer
Dorothy Terris   Composer
Frederick Hollander   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
James Van Heusen   Composer
Ralph Freed   Composer
P.G. Wodehouse   Composer
George Forrest   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
Paul Whiteman   Composer
Mack Gordon   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Harry Revel   Composer
Robert Wright   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer
Johnny Burke   Composer