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Menu Mel Torme at the Embers 1960
1960réf. 7958Toorak Australia: The Embers 1960. Menu. Mel Torme at the Embers Menu 1960. Signed by Mel Torme & Tommy Hanlon & Pilitta Corrales. Very Good Menu Mel Torme at the Embers 21st Nov - 27th Nov. 1960. Bifolium 210x125mm single fold stiff cream card 4pps. very lightly soiled some light age toning to top corner crisp & otherwise clean. Authentication mark to page 4. Page 2 is blank page 3 is the 6 course dinner menu for The Mel Torme Show at the Embers for £2.0.0 per head page 4 has three signatures: 'Mel Tormé' 'and me too! Tommy Hanlon' and 'always Pilita' Pilita Corrales The Embers owned by entrepreneur and promoter Jimmy Noall was a short lived but iconic venue in Toorak Melbourne in the late 1950s and early 1960s that hosted a number of significant Jazz and popular musicians during this time. In 1960 Noall promoted Ella Fitzgerald's second tour to Australia and New Zealand. She toured from the 26th November to the 11th December and performed shows in Brisbane Adelaide Melbourne Festival Hall Sydney and then Melbourne again for a show televised by Channel 9 from the Embers. Mel Tormé 1925 - 1999 was Ella Fitzgerald's opening act on tour they were both signed to the Verve label at the time. Tormé arrived in Melbourne before the Fitzgerald tour group for a week’s engagement at the Embers; and saxophonist Frank Smith’s house quartet and friends provided the backing for all of his Melbourne performances including the Festival Hall concert. Also performing regularly at the Embers was the American comedian Tommy Hanlon 1923-2003. Hanlon went onto become a major Australian TV celebrity in the early 1960s with Channel 9 and was the winner of the Gold Logie for most popular TV presenter in Australia in 1962. Also performing regularly around town and with Channel 9 was Pilita Corrales. Corrales 1939 - arrived in Australia in 1957 from the Philippines in sensational circumstances making the headlines for being rescued by the Navy from a shipwreck. She was the first woman to ever top the charts in Australia with her cover of 'Speak Low Come Closer to Me' in 1959 and the first person to locally produce a record with Astor Records November 1959. By 1960 she was a regular and highly popular songstress on Channel 9 including Graham Kennedy's IMT Channel 7 and appeared in many venues around the country. Between 1959 and 1961 Corrales was one of the biggest stars on Australian TV. She subsequently returned to the Philippines performing all over the world and releasing more than 130 albums. The signatures of Mel Tormé and Tommy Hanlon have been authenticated. [The Embers] unknown
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