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TOGETHER AGAIN: FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Together Again: For the First Time

Released 1978
Recorded January 1978, New York City, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 32:52
Label Century Records, Gryphon Records
Producer Norman Schwartz

Together Again: For the First Time is a 1978 studio album by Mel Tormé and Buddy Rich. 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.

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

Direct-to-disc recording session

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 if a musician would make a mistake, they had to re-record from the first song. Occasionally, the musicians would hear the command “take it from the top” and start the song they had been 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 instead of the album.

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

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

Side B

“Bluesette” (Norman Gimbel, Toots Thielemans) – 3:30
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (Stevie Wonder) – 4:30
“I Won’t Last a Day Without You” (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) – 3:56
“Oh, Lady be Good!” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:37
CD re-issue, When I Found You[edit]
“When I Found You” (Randall) – 3:14
“Here’s That Rainy Day” (Burke, Van Heusen) – 4:55
“Cape Verdean Blues” (Horace Silver) – 6:12 (instrumental bonus track)
“Blues in the Night” (Arlen, Mercer) – 8:02
“Bluesette” (Gimbel, Thielemans) – 3:42
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (Wonder) – 4:41
“Funk City Ola” (Barry Mintzer) – 4:27 (instrumental bonus track)
“I Won’t Last a Day Without You” (Nichols, Williams) – 4:28
“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 – tenor saxophone
Gary Pribeck
Greg Smith

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