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Buddy Rich is one of a kind he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

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Mel Torme
Age: 73 †
Born: 1925
Born: September 13
Died: 1999
Died: June 5
Actor
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Composer
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Musician
Novelist
Recording Artist
Singer
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Television Actor
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Melvin Howard Tormé
The Velvet Fog
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I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
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As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
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I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
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I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
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