Nat King Cole Greatest Hits Rar
Lutero Chaloux
20 Golden Greats is a greatest hits album by Nat King Cole. It was released by Capitol Records in 1978 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart,[1] where it was a posthumous number one.
nat king cole greatest hits rar
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Called "the best friend a song ever had," jazz pianist and vocalist Nat "King" Cole is one of the greatest interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Throughout his 30-year career, Cole recorded well over 100 songs (many becoming pop hits), performed in films, television and on Broadway, and was one of the first African American hosts a TV series in the U.S. We look at Cole's monumental legacy as a vocalist through five songs.
Recorded in 1940, "Sweet Lorraine" was Cole's first hit. The story goes that one night, while performing in a club, a drunk customer loudly requested that Cole sing. Not knowing the specific song requested, Cole instead sang "Sweet Lorraine," and so his vocal talent was "discovered." In Cole's own words: "I started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out."
Composed by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the 1950 film Captain Carey, U.S.A., Nat King Cole's performance of "Mona Lisa" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, topped the Billboard singles chart for eight weeks, and was eventually inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame (1992). Cole repeatedly referenced "Mona Lisa" as one of his absolute favorite songs. A testament to the song's timelessness, Gregory Porter fittingly introduces his album Nat "King" Cole & Me with "Mona Lisa."
You could pick any song from Nat "King" Cole's TV variety show on NBC, which was one of the first ever hosted by an African American, which stirred much controversy. Despite high ratings, the show lasted just a year due to the lack of a national sponsor, even though many of Cole's colleagues and guests (including Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt and Tony Bennett) worked for little or no pay to help the show cut production costs.
"Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" (translated as "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps") is a classic ballad and hit written by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrs in 1947. Cole traveled to Cuba in 1958, and subsequently recorded Cole Espaol (sung entirely in Spanish) and it's popularity in both Latin America and the U.S. sparked two followup albums in Spanish. "Quizas" is another song Gregory Porter selected for his Nat "King" Cole album.
Cole's 1964 performance of the Doris Day hit "When I Fall in Love" on The Jack Benny Program would mark on of his final TV appearances and documented performances, before his untimely death from lung cancer the following year. The song's significance to Cole is perhaps best embodied in a posthumous "duet" in 1992 with his daughter Natalie Cole, who combined her vocals with Nat's 1956 recording, which won two GRAMMYs.
Born 100 years ago today, Nat King Cole was one of the most popular and influential entertainers of the 20th century. As an African American ballad singer and jazz musician, he topped the charts year after year, sold more than 50 million records, pushed jazz piano in a new direction and paved the way for later generations of performers.
"Nat King Cole's voice is really one of the great gifts of nature," Daniel Mark Epstein, author of the 1999 biography Nat King Cole, says. "Remember, he was never trained as a singer. And so, his voice is absolutely pure. He's a baritone with absolutely perfect pitch. He sings the notes true and he hits them right in the center."
Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Ala., on March 17, 1919, the child prodigy was later raised in Chicago. Cole's mother taught the him to play the piano when he was four, and at 15, he dropped out of high school to lead his own bands. His first recordings show the influence of his idol, Earl Hines.
The King Cole Trio had a huge influence, inspiring other jazz musicians like Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal to form similar trios. Epstein says if Cole had never crooned a note, he would still be an important figure in jazz.
"You see, it's not a case of my personal likes," Cole said in the interview. "I try to please as many people as I possibly can and if I find the people like certain things, I try to give them what they like. And that's good business too, you see."
"He went down to the South to perform with an interracial band, which was pretty bold and offensive to a lot of whites," Eptein explains. "But then he agreed to play for segregated audiences, which offended his black audience."
"The White Citizens Council of Alabama had this plot to kidnap Cole from the theater, Eptein says. "The plot failed, but the hoodlums did storm the stage, break up the performance. They knocked Nat Cole off the piano bench and injured his back."
A doctor treated Cole in his dressing room, and the singer returned to the stage for the late show. The incident made national news, and seven months later, Cole became the first major African-American musician to host a national television variety show.
The Nat King Cole Show had a large audience, but no national sponsor would back a show with a black host for fear of alienating Southern viewers. NBC was losing money, and Cole canceled the weekly program after a little more than a year. However, Epstein says Cole continued to reach a wide audience through records that topped the charts. "That was the great gift of his charisma," Epstein says. "That there was so much passion in his voice and so much intelligence, he was able to transcend the color barrier."
Cole didn't live long enough to see his career overshadowed by rock and roll. A heavy smoker all his life, he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1964 and went into the studio for the last time in June of that year. Only 45 years old, Cole died on Feb. 15, 1965.
"He was the nicest man you'd ever want to meet in your life," Mathis recalls of his friend. "Just a very down-to-earth person who happened to be one of the greatest musicians of all time. And he became, of course, a model for so many people, especially someone like myself."
All hail the King! The velvet voice of Nat "King" Cole is coming this weekend to Public Television as TJ Lubinsky's My Music series premieres a centennial celebration of the late singer-pianist born March 17, 1919. My Music: Nat King Cole's Greatest Songs includes full performances of his greatest hits, most beloved classics, and favorite standards including the timeless "Mona Lisa," "Unforgettable" and "When I Fall in Love," the cool "Route 66," and jubilant "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer."
In the My Music tradition, Nat King Cole's Greatest Songs will present rarely-seen footage from Mr. Cole's pioneering 1950s television variety show. Martin Sheen hosts this one-of-a-kind program which debuts on Public Television stations nationwide this weekend.
A very special companion CD set will be available as part of pledge drives beginning this weekend. Nat King Cole: Favorites is a new, exclusive 3-CD, 81-song collection paired with Universal's upcoming Ultimate Nat King Cole. With 102 tracks total over 4 CDs, this bundle boasts every one of Nat's U.S. top 40 Pop hits, plus a generous helping of true fan favorites and hard-to-find tracks. TSD's Joe Marchese has written the new liner notes for Favorites which will be included in a 16-page booklet filled with rare and unpublished photographs of the artist.
That's not all, either. My Music: Nat King Cole's Greatest Songs will also be available on DVD, adding an additional dozen songs not seen on the broadcast version including "The Sand and The Sea," "It's a Good Day," "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," "It's All in the Game," "Almost Like Being In Love," "Where Or When," "The Party's Over," and other Cole classics.
My Music: Nat King Cole's Greatest Songs begins airing on Public Television stations nationwide this weekend. Check your local broadcast schedule for more information. You'll find the track listing for the bundle of Nat King Cole Favorites and Ultimate Nat King Cole below!
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Hi Ric, the track listing for the 4-CD bundle (ULTIMATE NAT KING COLE and NAT KING COLE: FAVORITES) is above. The bundle including FAVORITES is available exclusively through U.S. Public Television stations as a pledge incentive for MY MUSIC: NAT KING COLE'S GREATEST SONGS. Check your local listings for information on when the special is airing in your market.
Hello, the 4-CD bundle includes both NAT KING COLE: FAVORITES (3 CDs) and ULTIMATE NAT KING COLE (1 CD). "Mona Lisa" isn't missing; it's on ULTIMATE NKC. We've added the track listing of ULTIMATE, above, to make that clearer. Both FAVORITES and ULTIMATE have been remastered.
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This weekend at the RPO will be "Unforgettable," as we welcome Canadian vocalist Denzal Sinclaire for an evening of Nat King Cole's greatest hits under the baton of Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik.
Cole was a celebrated African American singer and jazz pianist who produced many hit records from the 1940s until his death in 1965. Cole favored big band and jazz styles of music, and his hits such as "L-O-V-E," "Straighten Up and Fly Right," and "Mona Lisa" remain popular today. Like Cole, Sinclaire is also a vocalist and pianist who has performed on television and in concert halls around the world. He is a multiple nominee of the Juno Award (Canada's Grammy Award), a recipient of the 2004 National Jazz Award for "Best Album," and a four-time consecutive recipient of Jazz Report Magazine's Award for Male Jazz Vocalist.
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