Top Drawer

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Top Drawer
Top Drawer cover
Studio album by Mel Tormé
Released 1983
Recorded May 1983
Genre Jazz
Length 38:41
Label Concord Records
Producer Carl Jefferson
Professional reviews
Mel Tormé chronology
An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé
(1982)
Top Drawer
(1983)
An Evening at Charlie's
(1983)

Top Drawer is a 1983 (see 1983 in music) album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

Tormé's performance on this album won him the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male.

[edit] Track listing

1. "A Shine on Your Shoes" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) 3:06
2. "How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehen?" (Johnny Mercer, Tony Scibetta) 5:45
3. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) 4:15
4. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) 5:45
5. "Hi Fly" (Randy Weston) 3:24
6. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) 6:02
7. "What's This?" (Dave Lambert) 3:13
8. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) 3:51
9. "Here's to My Lady" (Rube Bloom, Mercer) 3:20

[edit] Personnel

Recorded May 1983, in Los Angeles, U.S.: