Sing Sing Sing (album)

1992 live album by Mel Tormé

Sing Sing Sing

Live album by

Mel Tormé

Released| 1992
Recorded| November 14, 1992
Venue| Kani-hoken Hall, Tokyo
Genre| Vocal jazz
Length| 59:28
Label| Concord
Producer| Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
| Christmas Songs
(1992)  | Sing Sing Sing
(1992)  | A Tribute to Bing Crosby
(1992)

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Allmusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]

Sing Sing Sing is a 1992 live album by Mel Tormé.[3]

## Track listing

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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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* Mel Tormé \- vocals
* Ken Peplowski \- clarinet
* Peter Appleyard \- vibraphone
* John Leitham \- double bass
* John Colianni \- piano
* Donny Osborne - drums

## References

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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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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio
albums|

* It's a Blue World (1955)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (1956)
* Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956)
* Mel Tormé's California Suite (1957)
* Prelude to a Kiss (1957)
* Tormé Meets the British (1957)
* Tormé (1958)
* Back in Town (1959)
* ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (1959)
* Broadway, Right Now! (1961)
* Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1960)
* I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! (1960–61)
* Swingin' on the Moon (and Margaret Whiting, 1960–61)
* My Kind of Music (1961)
* Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York (1963)
* That's All (1964–66)
* Right Now! (1966)
* A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
* Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969)
* Tormé: A New Album (1977)
* Together Again: For the First Time/When I Found You (and Buddy Rich, 1978)
* Top Drawer (and George Shearing, 1983)
* Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1988)
* Nothing Without You (and Cleo Laine, 1991)
* Christmas Songs (1992)
* A Tribute to Bing Crosby (1994)
* Velvet & Brass ( and Rob McConnell, 1995)

Live
albums|

* Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1955)
* Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957)
* Songs for Any Taste (1957)
* Mel Tormé at the Red Hill (1962)
* Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette (1975)
* An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
* The Classic Concert Live (and Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, 1982)
* An Evening at Charlie's (and George Shearing, 1983)
* A Vintage Year (and George Shearing, 1987)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo (1988)
* Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
* Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990)
* Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990)
* Sing Sing Sing (1992)
* Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (1993)
* The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub (1992)
* An Evening with Mel Tormé (1996)
* Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (2001)

Selected
singles|

* "Comin' Home Baby" (1962)

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