"Fascinating Rhythm" sung by Mel Torme' 

Real jazz fans know all about him.

I'm just reading Billie Holidays autobiography Lady sings the blues and she actually states singing wasn't his kind of stuff, he really just wanted to be a dancer and had no interest in singing in the first place....

@@dynamite3690 Very interesting! The late great Chick Corea wanted to be a jazz drummer before concentrating on piano. Their second choice worked out well!!!

Hes world famous, what missing credit?

@@dynamite3690 Mel could do it all, write, sing and play about every instrument out there. Joe Morello's first choice was violin and he was trained by a maestro with his eyes set on being an orchestra violinist until his instructor told him with his limited eyesight, he wouldn't be able to see the baton. So he picked up drums. Go figure!!!! By the way, Mel is one of my favorite drummers!

I like both of them, but I don't see how anybody could dislike Mel.

you should put ( ! ) in front of ( ? ) so it stand out as a retorical question because no one will answer :) :P

* Mel could take even the corniest song and re-invent it into something incredibly cool! ☺

too cool for words just groove cool cats

very.

Me, too, what a great time for music! Mel was the all time best male singer in the business!

You can say that again. 20's, 30's and 40's America, and the creation of the Great American songbook. Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Frank Loesser.

Another example of Jewish excellence. I think they have one-up on us.

@@pamtebelman2321 who is us?!

@@pamtebelman2321 Indeed.

​@@pamtebelman2321what does being Jewish have to do with it? I heard that he was a octoroon black man.

You simply read a Wikipedia page on Mel or any other artist, and you learn anything you need to know.

I heard him drum on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, in the 80s.

That is a surprise.

There is that famous number where Astaire plays the drums with sticks and feet. Not as good a singer as Torme, obviously, but a better drummer to my ears..

And Fred Astaire also was a uniquely good singer who many composers wrote for, and he himself wrote some songs. And he was a good actor, and in dramatic films; "On The Beach", with Gregory Peck, was a post-apocalyptic nuclear war drama!

Lucky you! Would have loved to have heard him live!

Ditto, Mel was the best.

His knick name was the"velvet frog"

He was always...... and absolutely no mistake man ! .. The Great Entertainer !!!!

Except for Sean Nós.

The Comedian from Playhouse 90 is what you're thinking of.

musical earth angels float, I'd assume

Don't know what you mean because I grew up knowing that this generation of his was made to go through certain dancing, acting, and singing classes in order to even get head shots made. It was understood that the guys would know ballroom dance moves if they wanted to make it. Hell, look at the musical movies of the 50s and 60s and see the background dancers flitting around in mustard tights supposedly in the gangs of New York.

He was married 4 times, each time for a decade or more, and left several kids. I have no doubt he was heavier in the loafers than you. By the way, fuck you.

Love it......

pretty sure... if i have these magnificent qualities i must have more than a hundred girls in my book list... ha ha...

He could play games with the phrasing he could stretch it a compact it he was that good! He played his drumming sensibilities to his singing! Stretching the beat out compacting it like playing an accordion!