Mel Tormé is best known as a singer (and the object of Judge Harry Stone's fan-worship on the television show, Night Court), but he was also a composer, arranger and a very talented drummer. Here's a young Mel Tormé, pounding the skins in a video clip from the 1944 movie, Pardon My Rhythm; that's Bob Crosby's band backing him up on the tune, "Drummer Boy").
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Gee girl, you're swell.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that about Torme.
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