Swingin' On the Moon

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Swingin' On the Moon
Swingin' On the Moon cover
Studio album by Mel Tormé
Released 1960
Recorded August 3-5, 1960
Genre Jazz
Length 38:12
Label Verve Records
Producer Russell Garcia
Professional reviews
Mel Tormé chronology
Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley
(1960)
Swingin' On the Moon!
(1960)
Broadway, Right Now!
(1960)

Swingin' On the Moon is a 1960 (see 1960 in music) album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé. The Moon is the connecting theme, and every track, but one, contains the word "moon" in the title.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Swingin' on the Moon" (Mel Tormé) 3:32
2. "Moonlight Cocktail" 3:04
3. "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) 3:56
4. "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) 3:16
5. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) 3:13
6. "Don't Let That Moon Get Away" (Johnny Burke, James V. Monaco) 2:39
7. "Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) 3:46
8. "A Velvet Affair" 3:00
9. "No Moon at All" (Redd Evans, Dave Mann) 2:39
10. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) 3:05
11. "Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) 3:16
12. "The Moon Was Yellow" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) 2:46

[edit] Personnel

Recorded August 3-5, 1960, in Los Angeles: