A Vintage Year

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Released 1988 Release date 1988 Label Concord Records		Length 54:31 Producer Carl Jefferson Genre Jazz

Recorded August 1987, live at the Paul Masson Winery, Saratoga, CA A Vintage Year (1987) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1990) Artists Mel Tormé, George Shearing Similar An Evening with George S, An Elegant Evening, Mel and George "Do" Worl, Top Drawer, The Classic Concert L

A Vintage Year is a 1987 (see 1987 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

Track listing

"Whisper Not"/"Love Me or Leave Me" (Benny Golson, Leonard Feather), (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:17
"Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:11
"Someday I'll Find You" (Noël Coward) – 2:52
"Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Mercer) – 5:36
New York, New York Medley: "For Me and My Gal"/"Mack the Knife"/"The Birth of the Blues"/"Send a Little Love My Way"/"How High the Moon"/"Theme from New York, New York" (Ray Goetz, Edgar Leslie, George Meyer)/(Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein, Kurt Weill)/(Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Henderson)/(Henry Mancini)/(Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis)/(Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 6:01
"The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:08
"Bittersweet" (Sam Jones) – 5:47
"Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 4:40
"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Kern) – 3:37
"Anyone Can Whistle"/"A Tune for Humming" (Stephen Sondheim)/(Sondheim) – 5:53
"When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 3:29
"Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day" (Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler, Mabel Wayne) – 5:55

Mel Tormé – vocals

George Shearing – piano

John Leitham – double bass

Donny Osbourne – drums

1Whisper Not / Love Me or Leave Me4:17
2Out of This World5:11
3Someday I'll Find You2:52

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