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Together Again: For the First Time is a 1978 studio album by Mel Tormé and Buddy Rich. [1] Originally recorded and released as a direct-to-disc LP album, it was re-issued in 1999 as When I Found You by Hindsight Records with two additional Buddy Rich Big Band instrumental tracks from the same era.
Tormé's books include The Other Side of the Rainbow (1970), a memoir of his time as musical adviser for Judy Garland's television show; Traps, the Drum Wonder (1991), a biography of Buddy Rich; My Singing Teachers: Reflections on Singing Popular Music (1994); Wynner (1978) a novel; and It Wasn't All Velvet (1988), his autobiography.
Rich was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents Bess Skolnik and Robert Rich, both American vaudevillians. [5]: 6 At 18 months old, he became part of his parents' vaudeville act, dressed in a sailor suit playing an arrangement of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" behind a large bass and snare drum - an act which concluded with him emerging from behind the drums tap-dancing ...
Mel Tormé performed "scat" versions in 1979 on the Merv Griffin Show with Buddy Rich and a live version on the 1981 LP Mel Torme and Friends. Elvis Costello released a version of the tune, including the opening verse (prologue), on a Rhino re-release of his 1981 album Trust.
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Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) [1] was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Al Hirt, Art Pepper, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Ray Charles and Mel Tormé.
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Terry Gibbs (born Julius Gubenko; October 13, 1924) is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader. [1]He has performed or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, [2] Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Alice Coltrane, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others.