Mel And The Moon

It's the birthday of Mel Torme, aka the Velvet Fog.  He started singing professionally as a kid, and got even bigger when his voice changed.

One of his best known numbers was "Blue Moon," which was ironic since Richard Rodgers hated jazz singers who didn't sing the song as written. (In fact, the team wrote a song bemoaning excessive changes entitled "I Like To Recognize The Tune"--which Torme later covered.)