Mel Tormé would eventually compose hundreds of songs – but is best known for writing The Christmas Song - Martin Mills/Hulton Archive Marking the centenary of the birth of Mel Tormé is bound to ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Mel Torme' (born Melvin Howard Torme' on September 13, 1925 and died on June 5, 1999) was a singer, musician, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author (pretty good ...

Nicolas King did not know Mel Tormé, but that doesn’t make his presence in the program superfluous. As an entertainer who has leaned into this style of music, King has spent his life singing the songs ...

As Concord re-releases some of its classic Mel Tormé albums, it becomes increasingly clear to even the most casual listener that he improved with age. Like the very best of the big band singers, and ...

Mel Tormé was unquestionably one of the great jazz singers of all time, by any definition, and yet he himself was never entirely comfortable with that label. Well, let me clarify that: He didn’t mind ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Mel Torme's birthday today! Mel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more ...

Hello, wonderful readers! To continue and hopefully conclude this melancholic March, let’s look at “It’s a Blue World” by Mel Tormé, an album by a semi-popular and underrated vocalist from the ...

In 1946, Nat King Cole recorded one of the most famous holiday standards. Though, “The Christmas Song” was originally co-written by another crooner of the time. It was a sweltering summer day in July ...

Later this week, Billy Stritch sings Mel Torme opens The Cabaret Project of St. Louis' virtual season, TRIBUTES. New York's celebrated singer-pianist brings the legendary Mel Torme's swing and swagger ...

Tracy Tormé, a UFO expert and son of stylish crooner Mel Tormé who co-created the 1990s series Sliders and was hand-picked by Gene Roddenberry to serve as the head writer on Star Trek: The Next ...

The second son of singer Mel Tormé, he started out in comedy on ‘SCTV’ and ‘Saturday Night Live,’ then moved to drama projects including ’Fire in the Sky,’ ‘I Am Legend’ and ‘Carnivàle.’ By Mike ...