It's a Blue World (Mel Tormé album)

It's a Blue World is an album by Mel Tormé that was released by Bethlehem Records.[2]

It's a Blue World
Studio album by
Released1955
RecordedAugust 28–30, 1955
GenreJazz
Length33:15
LabelBethlehem
Mel Tormé chronology
Mel Tormé at the Crescendo
(1955)
It's a Blue World
(1955)
Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette
(1956)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Reception

The Billboard review in 1955 wrote that the material was mostly standards and that Tormé "renders them in a mellow, jazz-wize manner, and sales should be good among the hipsters".[2] AllMusic stated: "Tormé invested the songs with warmth and confidence. Recorded and released around the time he turned 30, It's a Blue World marked a turning point in Mel Tormé's recording career."[1]

Track listing

  1. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:23
  2. "Till the Clouds Roll By" (Jerome Kern, P. G. Wodehouse) – 2:54
  3. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:41
  4. "I Know Why (And So Do You)" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:50
  5. "All This, and Heaven Too" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:39
  6. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:33
  7. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:56
  8. "You Leave Me Breathless" (Ralph Freed, Frederick Hollander) – 3:23
  9. "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (Mort Dixon, Billy Rose, Warren) – 3:43
  10. "Wonderful One" (Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofé, Theodora Morse) – 3:17
  11. "It's a Blue World" (George Forrest, Robert C. Wright) – 3:45
  12. "Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Gordon, Harry Revel) – 3:21

Personnel

References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. "Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums". Billboard. Vol. 67 no. 53. December 31, 1955. p. 16.
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