Right Now

Mel Torme | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002AHK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Comin' Home Baby

2. Homeward Bound

3. My Little Red Book

4. Walk on By

5. If I Had a Hammer

6. Strangers in the Night

7. Better Use Your Head

8. Time

9. Secret Agent Man

10. Pretty Flamingo

11. Red Rubber Ball

12. All That Jazz

13. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [#]

14. Dominique's Discotheque

15. The Power of Love

16. Lover's Roulette

17. Ciao Baby [#]

18. Molly Marlene [#]

19. King [#]

20. Lima Lady

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YEAH BABY!, December 27, 1999

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Darren Gauthier (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Right Now (Audio CD)

If you're a serious jazz fan looking for the high art projects of Mel Torme, then look elsewhere (and stay away from me in general because I find you people are collossal bores!) But if you dig the loungier sounds then this groovy record is for you. Basically, Mel does the 1960's pop charts on this one, with Burt Bacharach being represented more than any other composer. And while Torme himself and jazz purists didn't care for this one, the "rest of us" will find the skilled interpretations of this material to be ear candy of the highest order. The singing is top notch (you'd expect anything less?) and the arrangements aren't irritating like so many e-z covers of rock material. As for the songs, you know them all, and will be plesantly surprised at the fresh approach Mel brings to admittedly sub-par material (and Mel would record far more inappropriate material before it was all over, so that shouldn't bother you.) In short, Mel can't help but make a great record!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Skip It, April 19, 2009

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Jeffrey Perrenoud (Sandpoint, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Right Now (Audio CD)

Not even ardent Mel fans will want to bother with this album. In fact, the more devoted a Mel fan you are, the more you'll dislike it. Trivial to awful mid-60s arrangements with mediocre performances by all concerned. Dreadful from start to finish.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific oldie, February 17, 2003

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Alan Messer "elder reader" (Toledo, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Right Now (Audio CD)

I owned the vinyl decades ago and have often missed it since (lost in the divorce). Delighted to again have one of the purest voices combined with a jazzy approach.