Emi Labels Music : The World of Nat King Cole

The World of Nat King Cole

£3.88

  1. Let’s Face The Music And Dance
  2. Mona Lisa
  3. When I Fall In Love
  4. Unforgettable
  5. It s All In The Game
  6. Too Young
  7. Nature Boy
  8. Smile
  9. Walkin My Baby Back Home
  10. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  11. Straighten Up And Fly Right
  12. On The Street Where You Live
  13. A Blossom Fell
  14. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
  15. Pretend
  16. Autumn Leaves
  17. Looking Back
  18. Send For Me
  19. Love Letters
  20. Somewhere Along The Way
  21. Orange Coloured Sky
  22. Ramblin Rose
  23. Let There Be Love (w/ George Shearing)
  24. L-O-V-E
  25. Stay As Sweet As You Are
  26. Unforgettable (duet w/ Natalie)
  27. Stardust

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Nat King Cole s death in 1965, this compilation is the CD companion of an excellent DVD/documentary. Produced with the blessing of his estate, this disc is a thorough survey of his timeless genius--all recorded on the Capitol label. It captures his sumptuous and soothing tenor voice crooning on the pop tunes he made famous, like the ethereal Nature Boy, the melancholy Mona Lisa, and the bouncy Straighten Up and Fly Right, and Route 66. It also features Cole s often-overlooked skills as an Earl Hines-style pianist. Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps), and Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, attest to his international appeal, and see if you can keep a dry eye when you listen to Natalie Cole s posthumous, digitally-enhanced duet with her father on Unforgettable. From strings to big bands, Nat King Cole is never out of style. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

nat king cole the legend what a collection!! - this is a an amazeing collection by nat king cole this is the best best of collection but he has a few essential albums too like after midnight sessions and love is the thing there fab and of course his christmas album buy them all there fab!!

nat is the king - This is an excellent collectin of Nat King Coles work including the Nat King Cole Trio. Great versions of It s All In The Game and Love Letters. Obviously there are the classics which include When I Fall In Love, Smile (1961 version) and both versions of Unforgettable. A must for anyone who wants to discover the unforgettable Nat King Cole

Not the same album universally . - This is an excellent compilation covering recordings over a number of years , most of his well-known tracks , and with the re-mastered Unforgettable with the addition of Natalie Cole . However it does seem strange that this album is released also in the USA with different tracks , two of which should have been on this album . Record ( sorry , CD ) producers are strange animals in this respect .

Peerless - Nat King Cole s singing, his range, tone, diction and phrasing, not to mention the quality of the arrangements and backing, be they the Nat King Cole Trio or Nelson Riddle s full orchestra, are all of what today s young pretenders strive to achieve. And good as some of them are, you only have to play this album, or any of the many others of his that are available, to realise that they have a long way to go to come anywhere near.Released to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, and in tandem with a DVD and television documentary, the packaging of this collection inevitably has the marketing department s mark, as opposed to the enthusiast s, on it. The accompanying booklet contains an article by daughter Natalie that is nearly all waffle and precious little detail about the music, and the tracklisting neglects to give any recording dates, which would have been helpful because they are not in chronological order - but it does show which tracks are mono and which stereo, in case our ears couldn t work that out.The album starts off with a bang, Billy May s vibrant big band arrangement and backing for Let s Face The Music And Dance making sure that everyone is awake, before settling down into the ballads that most people know and love. It s not all balladry, though, and later on there is a taste of more upbeat material, and it s nice to see the inclusion of some neglected classics like Send For Me and Orange Coloured Sky before things are wound up with his full and unsurpassed reading of Hoagy Carmichael s Stardust.A couple of the tracks are alternative recordings to those normally heard - Love Letters and Smile - though to be fair, if you re not intimately familiar with them you won t notice. All of them, bar the engineered duet of Unforgettable with Natalie, have been digitally remastered, I remain unconvinced that this actually improves sound quality, but it does brighten up the backing instrumentation, and evens out the sound-level variations between tracks.Whatever little quibbles I have about the packaging of the product, the man s singing and music are what matters, and they are five-star without question. It goes without saying that there is plenty more where this came from, as a browse of the listings will reveal. This does nicely though, especially as a present - I bought it for Mother s Day, and it was very well received.

Not definitive but a great collection - You d need a boxed set of several CD s to contain all of Nat s great songs, but this collection is packed full of great music at a reasonable price.In Britain, Nat is best known for When I fall in love, and it is inevitably included here. Beyond that s it s hard to single out tracks are they are all excellent. Ramblig rose, A blossom fell, Smile, Pretend and Somewhere along the way (all included here) were among Nat s other UK top ten hits, but he had others, not included here. Let there be love, which is here, just missed the UK top ten.Apart from those UK hits, this compilation includes Nat s versions of classic songs such as Let s face the music and dance, Mona Lisa, Unforgettable (here twice, once solo and once with his daughter), It s all in the game, Straighten up and fly right. On the street where you live, I love you for sentimental reasons, Autumn leaves, Love letters and Stardust.As an introduction to Nat s music, this is ideal. You re likely to end up buying more than one collection of Nat s music so don t worry about what s missing. Just enjoy what s here.




The World of Nat King Cole