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Available with LULU'S BACK IN TOWN and SINGS FRED ASTAIRE on A VERY SPECIAL TIME on Rhino (75961). Personnel includes: Mel Torme (vocals); Marty Paich, Russ Garcia, Andre Previn, Al Pelegrini (arranger); Frank Beach (trumpet); Al Hendrickson (guitar); Al Pellegrini Orchestra. Includes liner notes by Ralph Gleason. Digitally remastered by Tom Moulton (Frankford Wayne Mastering, New York, New York). Mel Torme had spent the first decade of his solo career being treated by record companies as a pop singer when Bethlehem offered to treat him as a jazz artist in 1955. The label requested that his first album be a collection of ballads, probably noting the recent success of Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours. But Torme picked the songs, ranging from Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse's "Till the Clouds Roll By" from 1917 to Duke Ellington and Paul Webster's "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" from 1941. The 15-piece orchestra assembled by his accompanist Al Pellegrini backed the singer, and Pellegrini, Sandy Courage, Andre Previn, Marty Paich, and Russ Garcia wrote the arrangements Torme sang with delicate precision, caressing the lyrics. Despite the album title, his interpretations had none of the darkness of Sinatra. Rather, Torme invested the songs with warmth and confidence. Recorded and released around the time he turned 30, It's a Blue World marked a turning point in Mel Torme's recording career. ~ William Ruhlmann