Reading Eagle

Feb. 29, 1992- Mel Tormé, Maureen McGovern Pull Out All The Stops In Songbook

“ … They were accompanied by a 17 piece big band that featured a Reading area native: the amazingly gifted bass player John Leitham. Leitham displayed his talents on the acoustic bass many times throughout the evening, perhaps most stunningly in a duet with McGovern-Cole Porter's "My Heart Belongs To Daddy", in which the bass played a seductive role-and in Tormé's tour de force arrangement of Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing". ”