Mel Tormé
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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No, not really.
It actually came to me and to us, to Bob and I, because it was inspired by those four lines.
As I say, he wrote the original four lines.
And by the way, I want to give due credit.
We were a songwriting team.
I was the basic composer, but I'm a lyricist too.
And I'm very proud of my lyric writing.
Bob was a superb lyricist who also had very fine, keen musical insights as well on a composing basis.
So we were a songwriting team.
Bob wrote the most important words to that song because the first four lines are really the most important.
They're the ones that people remember.
They're the absolutely most important lines of that song.
Bob Wells wrote them.
But that triggered the rest of the song.
That's what inspired it.
Well, there's one.
And you know the one, don't you?
Nat King Cole.
He was the first and the best.
And everybody, you name them, have recorded that song.