Mel Torme: It Wasn’t All Velvet autobiography HC/DJ 1st - $2
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Date: 2006-10-30 10:08:52
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Text: Mel Torme: It Wasn’t All Velvet autobiography HC/DJ 1st. JUST $2.
Clean hard back with dust jacket. Like new, other than name plate and date. No nicks, no tears, no creases. Has 384 pages with 16 pages of photos of Billie Holiday, Buddy Rich and others.
Torme was a two-time music Grammy Award winner and thirteen-time Grammy nominee. Ethel Waters once said, "Mel Torme is the only white man who sings with the soul of a black man." For more than fifty years, he was one of our most popular, most versatile, and most accomplished singers.
Known for years as the "Velvet Fog," Torme grew up in show business. He made his first appearance at age four, wrote his first hit song, "Lament to Love," at
sixteen, and finally ended up in Hollywood playing in MGM musicals - all before he was thirty. He made his reputation during the Big Band Era as a songwriter, arranger, drummer and, of course, singer. He's also one of the few white performers to share the limelight with jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Duke Ellington.
Told with the flair of a born raconteur, It Wasn't All Velvet is a witty, remarkably poignant autobiography. Married four times, he's kept company with women as unforgettable as Ava Gardner and Marilyn Monroe, and writes intimately of Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Jerry Lewis, his lifelong friend Buddy Rich, and many others.
Stored in a smoke free home. I will ship for just $3.50 if you want to pay by PayPal or check.
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