Album Details: Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Release Date: 01/01/1970
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Track List: Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
1. Take a Letter Maria
2. Traces
3. Sunshine Superman
4. Hung Up Being Free
5. Spinning Wheel
6. Catch a Robber by the Toe
7. Requiem: 820 Latham
8. Into Something
9. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
10. You've Made Me So Very Happy
cond ex/exMel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more as one of a talented and serious vocalist.
Legend has it that Torme began singing for his supper a Chicago restaurant when he was four and was working the vaudeville circuit soon after. He worked as a child actor on radio, and began writing songs in his early teens. In the early 1940s, he quit high school to became a boy singer (and drummer and part-time arranger) with Chico Marx's band.
His first fame coincided with Frank Sinatra's, and the two appeared together in their first film, "Higher and Higher." He wanted to be a jazz singer, "but I got sidetracked," he said. His manager "felt the way to the gold was for me to become a crooner. For a long period I was singing mushy, sentimental songs." His publicist coined the name, "The Velvet Fog," to describe his smooth style but he hated it (hecklers called him "The Velvet Frog").
