Sing Sing Sing (album)

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Sing Sing Sing
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Live album by
Mel Tormé
Released1992
RecordedNovember 14, 1992
Venue Kani-hoken Hall, Tokyo
Genre Vocal jazz
Length59:28
Label Concord
Producer Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
Christmas Songs
(1992)		Sing Sing Sing
(1992)		 A Tribute to Bing Crosby
(1992)
Professional ratings
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Sing Sing Sing is a 1992 live album by Mel Tormé. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lulu's Back in Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 4:29
  2. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 5:04
  3. "It's All Right with Me"/"Love" (Cole Porter)/(Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:27
  4. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 5:00
  5. All Medley: "All the Things You Are"/"All of You"/"All of Me" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)/(Porter)/(Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 4:32
  6. Tribute to Benny Goodman: "Stompin' at the Savoy"/"Don't Be That Way"/"And the Angels Sing"/Gotta Be This or That"/"Jersey Bounce"/"Why Don't You Do Right"/"Avalon"/"Sing Sing Sing" (Razaf, Edgar Sampson)/(Benny Goodman, Sampson, Mitchell Parish)/(Ziggy Elman, Johnny Mercer)/(Sunny Skylar)/(Tiny Bradshaw, Buddy Feyne, Edward Johnson, Bobby Plater)/(Kansas Joe McCoy)/(Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva, Vincent Rose)/(Louis Prima) – 14:34
  7. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:30
  8. "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 3:39
  9. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 5:14
  10. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg) – 5:16
  11. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 2:54

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1409. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ Sing Sing Sing at AllMusic
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