You might be looking at this bozo and thinking "Who the hell is that?" Well that, ladies and gents, is Mel Torme. It still doesn't mean a damn thing to you does it? Okay. How about this then? Have you seen that Vodaphone advert with an ace Northern Soul mod tune on it? A tune that goes "I'm comin' home baby... do doo!"? Well that is the great Mel Torme!

Mel, nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was desribed as working "with the most beautiful voice a man is allowed to have, and he combines it with a flawless sense of pitch… As an improviser he shames all but two or three other scat singers and quite a few horn players as well” by Jazz Swinging writer, Will Friedwald. Sadly, Satan himself has disabled embedding, so if you want to listen to the superb mod shuffle of Torme, click here.

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