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Mel Torme

American Musician

Born: Sep 13, 1925

Died: Jun 5, 1999

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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. Mel Torme

Me Writing Will Past Willing Find Ten Invest Songs Hours Arrangement Dearth Times Than Confess Anything Which Fifteen Harder

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. Mel Torme

Three Other Top Marks Give Directions True Performer Arranger Opposed Precedent Author Any Them Now Right Career Two

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. Mel Torme

Baby Singer Really Initial Career

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. Mel Torme

Liar Word Single Would Would-Be Soothing Said Hit Lovely Album

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. Mel Torme

Long Recording First Way Varied Recording Artist Scene Point Could Singers Contents How Came Been Artist Album Albums

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. Mel Torme

Dramatic Got Child America Eight Busiest Radio Actor

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. Mel Torme

Theatre Films Broadway Because Hub Chicago Hollywood Radio

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