Together Again: For the First Time

Together Again: For the First Time is a 1978 studio album by Mel Tormé and Buddy Rich.^[3] It was re-issued in 1999 as When I Found You by Hindsight Records with 2 additional Rich Big Band instrumental tracks from the same era.^[4]

Though they had been friends for a long time, Tormé and Rich had not recorded together until this album.

In the book Traveling Music, Neil Peart stated that each side of the album was recorded in a single take directly to the master LP, which was a throwback to recording techniques of the past. Not only did the mixing need to be correct, but when a musician would make a mistake, they would have to start recording again from the first song. Occasionally, the musicians would hear the command "take it from the top" and start the song they had been currently playing, instead of starting from the first song. This restart occasionally caused some confusion among the musicians who normally respond to that command by restarting the song they were currently playing.

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

1. "When I Found You" (Michael Randall) – 3:18
2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:56
3. "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 8:05

Side B

1. "Bluesette" (Norman Gimbel, Toots Thielemans) – 3:30
2. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:30
3. "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) – 3:56
4. "Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:37

CD re-issue, When I Found You

1. "When I Found You" (Randall) – 3:14
2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 4:55
3. "Cape Verdean Blues" (Horace Silver) – 6:12 (instrumental bonus track)
4. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen, Mercer) – 8:02
5. "Bluesette" (Gimbel, Thielemans) – 3:42
6. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Wonder) – 4:41
7. "Funk City Ola" (Barry Mintzer) – 4:27 (instrumental bonus track)
8. "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (Nichols, Williams) – 4:28
9. "Oh, Lady Be Good" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:12

Personnel

• Mel Tormé – vocals, arranger
• Buddy Rich – drums
• The Buddy Rich Big Band:
  • Hank Jones – piano
  • Tom Warrington – double bass
  • Chuck Schmidt – trumpet
  • Dean Pratt
  • John Marshall
  • Dave Kennedy
  • John Mosca – trombone
  • Dale Kirkland
  • Dave Boyle
  • Tony Price – tuba
  • Chuck Wilson – saxophone
  • Alan Vu Gauvin
  • Steve Marcus
  • Gary Pribeck
  • Greg Smith

References

• Century Records CRDD-1100 (direct-to-disc LP recording)
• Gryphon Records G-784 (LP)
• Hindsight 272 (CD reissue When I Found You)