Tormé

American  

[tawr-mey] / tɔrˈmeɪ /

noun

1. Melvin Howard MelThe Velvet Fog, 1925–99, U.S. jazz singer, actor, and composer.

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Example Sentences

We’re as likely to hear a few bars of The Cult’s “Fire Woman” as Joe McPhee’s funky banger “Shakey Jake” or the easy listening blanket that is Mel Tormé’s “The Windmills of Your Mind.”

From Salon

One of them sounds like it could’ve been cut by Mel Tormé, he says.

From Los Angeles Times

They’re not my go-to for that style of music — I play them less than I do Tony Bennett or Mel Tormé.

From Los Angeles Times

“I grew up on a farm, listening almost exclusively to legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé and Duke Ellington,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

As always, the blissful artistry of “Severance” is in the details – the completed circle of Mark opening the season with a mad dash through the halls and ending it hand in hand with Helly, jogging to who knows where as Mel Tormé croons a wending carpet of easy listening psychedelia behind them.

From Salon