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NBC COLOR TELEVISION NEWS
June 21, 1963
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MORE TOP PERFORMERS JOIN 'THE LIVELY ONES'
Mel Torme, jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Eduardo Sasson have been signed by producer-director Barry Shear to appear in segments of the 1963 series of "The Lively Ones," NBC-TV color musical show which begins Thursday, July 23 (9:30-10 p.m. EDT). Singer Vic Damone is star and host of the series.
Known primarily as a singer, Torme is also a composer, choral arranger, actor, pianist and drummer. His singing career began when he was four years old. A year later he learned to play the drums. At eight he was a radio actor, and at 15 he wrote the song, ’’Lament to Love, " which was recorded by Les Brown, Harry James and Dick Haymes. Torme also has many movie roles to his credit.
Getz was just 21 when he won the Metronome Jazz poll as ’’Top Tenorman of 19^9* M an award he has won every year since. Down Beat magazine voted him the "Best Jazz Musician of 1962," and he has won nearly every other award presented in the jazz field. He has played with Benny Goodman and Woody Herman, among others, and in 1957-58 he toured with "Jazz at the Philharmonic." Getz is credited with touching off the bossa nova craze in America.
Columbian-born Sasson speaks and writes 10 languages, and once worked for the United Nations in Geneva as an interpreter. He has no formal music education, but his classical-popular-flamenco guitar¬ playing and his ability to sing in several languages have made him a big hit in Southern California, where he began his professional career.
PRESS DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK