Gene Norman Presents Mel Tormé at the Crescendo is a 1957 live album by Mel Tormé, recorded at The Crescendo nightclub in Los Angeles.
Track listing "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 3:22 "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 3:55 "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:47 "Love Is Just a Bug" (Specs Powell) – 2:32 "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 2:53 "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 1:32 "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 2:29 "The Girl Next Door" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:58 "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:43 "Looking at You" (Porter) – 2:50 "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:26 "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 2:23
Personnel Mel Tormé - vocals Marty Paich - piano, arranger Larry Bunker - vibraphone Don Fagerquist - trumpet Max Bennett - double bass Mel Lewis - drums
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