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Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette

live album by Mel Tormé

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ17041034 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette is a 1975 live album by Mel Tormé.

Tormé had not released an album since 1969, and would not make any studio recordings until 1977, with the launch of Tormé: A New Album.

This live album was recorded privately, and sold to Atlantic Records; Tormé subsequently claimed never to have received any money from this recording. For the Gershwin medley, Tormé was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) at the Grammy Awards of 1976.

Track listing

Introduction – 1:06

"Jet Set" (Mel Tormé) – 3:18

"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:44

"Mountain Greenery" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:16

"It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone" (Leon Carr) – 4:37

"Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 4:24

Gershwin medley: "I Got Rhythm"/"Mine"/"Do-Do-Do"/"'S Wonderful"/"Embraceable You"/"Love Walked In"/"Love Is Here to Stay"/"Oh, Lady be Good!"/"A Foggy Day"/"How Long Has This Been Going On?"/"Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?"/"Who Cares?"/"Love is Sweeping the Country"/"Of Thee I Sing"/"Swanee"/"Strike Up the Band"/"I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" – 15:39

"Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:22

"The Party's Over" (Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Jule Styne) – 1:42

All compositions on track seven by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, except "Swanee", lyrics by Irving Caesar, and "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise", lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette” as live album by Mel Tormé. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1969, 1977, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tormé, live and Maisonette can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as live album by Mel Tormé. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17041034. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1969, 1977 and 1976.

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