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Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), [1] known professionally as Nat King Cole, alternatively billed as Nat "King" Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs ...
"That's All There Is to That" is a song written by Clyde Otis and Kelly Owens and performed by Nat King Cole featuring The Four Knights. It reached #15 on the U.S. R&B chart and #16 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. [1] The song reference's Ethel Barrymore's phrase to rebuff curtain calls, "That's all there is, there isn't any more".
1965 -- Nat King Cole Trio: The Vintage Years; 1965 -- Nature Boy; 1966 -- Longines Symphonette Society Presents the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (box set) 1966 -- The Unforgettable Nat King Cole Sings the Great Songs; 1966 -- Sincerely; 1967 -- Stay as Sweet as You Are; 1967 -- The Beautiful Ballads; 1967 -- Thank You, Pretty Baby
L-O-V-E was Cole's last album, and was released shortly before his death in February 1965. The songs " The Girl from Ipanema ", " My Kind of Girl " and " More (Theme From Mondo Cane )" were recorded December 1–3, 1964, shortly after Cole's diagnosis with lung cancer, and were the last recordings he made. [ 3 ]
For international versions of his L-O-V-E album, Nat King Cole also recorded versions of "L-O-V-E" and other songs, in Japanese (mixed with English words), [4] Italian, [5] German, [6] Spanish [7] and French. [8] In this last language, the song was renamed "Je Ne Repartirai Pas" and translated by Jean Delleme.
Cole's version, in the key of G major like the original, features a ii–V–I turnaround (2-5-1) in G, a pair of similar 2-5-1 sequences in E major and D major for the bridge, after which it raises the refrain a half-step with a 2-5-1 in A flat major. Frank Sinatra rerecorded the song for his 1961 album Come Swing with Me!.
One of these, "The Christmas Song", originally recorded in 1946, was re-recorded for the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. It is the best-selling Christmas album released in the 1960s, and was certified by the RIAA for shipments of 6 million copies in the U.S. [ 4 ] The 1963 version reached number 1 on Billboard 's Christmas Albums chart and ...
"Nature Boy" is a song first recorded by American jazz singer Nat King Cole. It was released on March 29, 1948, as a single by Capitol Records, and later appeared on the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. It was written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester, who practiced the Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophies adopted by Ahbez.