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Mel and George "Do" World War II

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Released
  
1990

Length
  
62:38

Release date
  
1990

Label
  
Concord Records

Recorded
  
September 2–3, 1990

Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
  
Get Happy! (1991)

Producer
  
Carl Jefferson

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Mel and George

Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
  
Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990)

Artists
  
Mel Tormé, George Shearing

Similar
  
Breakin' Out, An Elegant Evening, Top Drawer, Blues Alley Jazz, A Vintage Year

Mel and George "Do" World War II is a 1990 live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé and the British jazz pianist George Shearing.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lili Marleen" (Tommie Connor, Hans Leip, Norbert Schultze) – 6:18
  2. "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 6:13
  3. "Aren't You Glad You're You?" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:35
  4. Duke Ellington Medley: "Cotton Tail"/"I Didn't Know About You"/"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"/"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington)/(Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Ellington, Russell)/(Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 3:39
  5. "I Don't Want to Walk Without You"/"I'll Walk Alone" (Frank Loesser, Jule Styne)/(Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 4:30
  6. "I Could Write a Book" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:29
  7. "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 6:18
  8. "On the Swing Shift"/"The Five O'Clock Whistle" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)/(Kim Gannon, William C. K. Irwin, Josef Myrow) – 4:17
  9. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Mercer, Arlen) – 5:18
  10. "This is the Army, Mister Jones" (Irving Berlin) – 3:30
  11. "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" (Al Dubin, James V. Monaco) – 3:13
  12. "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) – 4:10
  13. "I Know Why (and So Do You)" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:15

Personnel

  • Mel Tormé - vocals
  • George Shearing - piano
  • Neil Swainson - double bass
  • Donny Osborne - drums
  • Songs

    1Lili Marlene6:18
    2(It Seems to Me) I've Heard That Song Before6:14
    3I Know Why and So Do You5:36

    References

    Mel and George "Do" World War II Wikipedia