The album notes (this was when most
listeners bought music in albums, and they had notes on the cover; a
different day, not likely to be seen again) for Herbie Mann's Best of
Herbie Mann album briefly mention that jazz standards singer/composer
Mel Tormé had done a cover of the Mann classic Comin' Home Baby –
managing to make the cover sound like more of a novelty recording
than a serious interpretation.
And it is a little odd; I can't really
deny it. However unusual it might seem among the interpretations of
Mann's work, it certainly sticks out in Tormé's catalog, even though it was a successful recording for him. It keeps
the slimmed-down instrumental trio for most of the recording (until
the organ appears for the break), it gives the signature flute melody
to the women singing back-up, leaving Tormé to fill the breaks in
each line with semi-improvised semi-scat lyrics.
See what you think:
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