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Answer : MEL TORMÉ
Melvin Howard Tormé, (born September 13, 1925, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 1999, Los Angeles, California), was an American singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, drummer, actor, and author, one of the 20th century’s most versatile, respected, and influential jazz vocalists.
Tormé began touring with Chico Marx’s band just before he turned 17, and in 1943 he made his motion picture debut in Higher and Higher. The same year he formed a quintet, Mel Tormé and His Mel-Tones. Such other films as Good News (1947) and Words and Music (1948) followed, and Tormé became an idol of bobby-soxers. “Blue Moon,” which he sang in Words and Music, became his first solo hit and one of his signature tunes. In 1949 Capitol Records chose Tormé’s California Suite for its first long-playing album, and in 1954 he recorded Mel Tormé at the Crescendo, his first live album. With the rise of rock music, Tormé’s career faltered, but it rebounded in the late 1970s. Eventually Tormé earned two Grammy Awards for best male jazz vocalist in 1982 and 1983. His performing career lasted until he suffered a stroke in 1996.
Tormé wrote about his life in three books—The Other Side of the Rainbow: With Judy Garland on the Dawn Patrol (1970), about working on her television series; It Wasn’t All Velvet (1988), his autobiography; and My Singing Teachers (1994).
Known—to his chagrin—as the “Velvet Fog” for his smooth vocal quality, Tormé also wrote more than 300 songs. His most familiar, “The Christmas Song”—cowritten with Robert Wells and better known by its opening line, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”—was made famous by Nat King Cole in 1946 and subsequently recorded in more than 1,700 versions.
More Clues
- TORME Velvet-voiced Mel
- MEL Velvet-voiced Torme
- BLANC Cartoon voice Mel
- FOG The Velvet _ (Mel Torme)
- EMPTY Janet Jackson tune from “The Velvet Rope”
- PANNE Lightweight velvet
- PILED Like velvet, e.g.
- SLASH Velvet Revolver guitarist
- DRAPE Velvet hanging
- MONEY Velvet
- TOQUE Plumed velvet hat
- MYLES “Black Velvet” singer Alannah
- GLOVE Velvet _
- LYNCH “Blue Velvet” director
- CHEST Velvet Underground “Andy’s ”
- ATONE Trader Horne “Velvet to “
- HORSE The Pie in “National Velvet,” notably
- SATIE The “Velvet Gentleman”
- VERVE Enthusiasm over velvet coatsENIDS Children’s book author Blyton and “National Velvet” author Bagnold
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