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Mel Tormé / Arr. Jerry Rubino
Mel Tormé composer / arranger
date of birth: 13.09.1925
date of death: 05.06.1999
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 June 5, 1999), best known as Mel Tormé and nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, a singer of jazz standards, a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
