Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head | ||||
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Studio album by Mel Tormé | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | December 1–23, 1969 | |||
Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
Length | 68:24 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Mel Tormé chronology | ||||
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head is a 1969 studio album by Mel Tormé. [1]
Melvin Howard Tormé, best known as Mel Tormé and nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, a singer of jazz standards, a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
As with 1966's Right Now! , Raindrops consists mostly of cover versions of popular songs of the late 1960s. This would be the last studio album Tormé would record before taking an eight-year hiatus; he would return to recording in 1977 with a new album .
Right Now! is a 1966 studio album by Mel Tormé. Columbia followed up Tormé's 1965 album of standards with "an obvious bid to sell records by putting Tormé's voice on pre-sold hits of the mid-'60s." "The Velvet Fog's" descent on contemporary middle-of-the-road top-40 melodies from Paul Simon and the Bacharach-David catalogue leads some to emphasize the commercialism of the project and file this period of Tormé's career in the lounge music section of records stores, as evidenced by his appearances on compilations like the Ultra Lounge series. However, music critic Will Friedwald makes a strong case that the work of Tormé and arranger Mort Garson elevated the project above "an album of straight "covers"."
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.
Tormé: A New Album is a 1977 studio album by Mel Tormé. The album has also been re-issued as, Mel Tormé: The London Sessions and with additional "bonus" tracks as A New Album, London Sessions Complete Edition.
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