In 1943, Tormé appeared in the movie Higher and Higher (in which another illustrious crooner named Frank Sinatra made his starring debut), and formed one of the finest pop vocal groups of the decade, the Mel-Tones. The group recorded with band singer
Eugenie Baird
(“I Fall in Love Too Easily,
” 1945),
Artie Shaw
's orchestra (“I Got the Sun in the Morning,
” 1946),
Bing Crosby
(“Day by Day,
” 1946), and under their own name (“...