Mel Tormé at the Red Hill
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Mel Tormé at the Red Hill is a 1962 live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

, recorded at the Red Hill Club in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

This was Tormé's first album for Atlantic Records.

Track listing

  1. "Shaking the Blues Away" (Irving Berlin
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    ) – 2:08
  2. "I'm Beginning to See the Light
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    "I'm Beginning to See the Light" is a popular song and jazz standard, written by Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, and Harry James, and published in 1944. Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots recorded a version in 1945 that was on the pop song hits list for six weeks in 1945, reaching #5...

    " (Duke Ellington
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    , Don George, Johnny Hodges
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    ) – 2:30
  3. "Fly Me to the Moon
    Fly Me to the Moon
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    " (Bart Howard
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    ) – 4:11
  4. Medley: "A Foggy Day
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    "/"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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    " (George Gershwin
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    , Ira Gershwin
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    )/(Eric Maschwitz
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    , Manning Sherwin
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    ) – 3:30
  5. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter
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    ) – 2:47
  6. "It's De-Lovely
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    " (Porter) – 4:22
  7. "Mountain Greenery
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    " (Lorenz Hart
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    , Richard Rodgers
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    ) – 2:49
  8. "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
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    " (Bert Kalmar
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    , Harry Ruby
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    ) – 3:26
  9. "Early Autumn
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    " (Ralph Burns
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    , Woody Herman
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    , Johnny Mercer
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    ) – 3:12
  10. "Anything Goes
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    " (Porter) – 3:17
  11. "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
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    " (Mercer, M. Philippe-Gerard, Angele Vannier) – 3:44
  12. "Love Is Just Around the Corner" (Lewis Gensler, Leo Robin
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    ) – 3:15
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