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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      Non-Film Score Discussion: Any Nat King Cole Fans Among Us?     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 1, 2014 - 9:03 PM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) I am sure there are. I grew up to the music of Nat King Cole and have collected his music for years. I knew one particular 78 by heart and could sing along with the entire album (much to my family's delight ). I have resurrected his music lately and have added quite a few new ones to my compendium. I have been focusing on the Trio selections and can honestly say I can listen to these selections for hours. The jazz is so light and so seemingly effortless that it amazes me. I am reading the bio at the same time and it only convinces me further that Nat King Cole is truly one of the greatest musical geniuses of this century. I don't think I would be enjoying the book as much if I was not listening to the music concurrently or the other way around. Unforgettable!    Posted:   Jul 1, 2014 - 9:56 PM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) I was raised with the wonderful songs of Nat "King" Cole, and I love his music still. I'm surprised you didn't mention his marvelous appearance in 1965's Cat Ballou! He and Stubby Kaye sing the narration to the story in the most delightfully inventive sequences ever filmed!    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:17 AM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) I was raised with the wonderful songs of Nat "King" Cole, and I love his music still. I'm surprised you didn't mention his marvelous appearance in 1965's Cat Ballou! He and Stubby Kaye sing the narration to the story in the most delightfully inventive sequences ever filmed! As you may notice I didn't mention any specific performances or appearances. There are just too many that I find memorable to mention. I left it up to the other members to specify - and you did.    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:18 AM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) Love everything by him. Raised on his music.    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:19 AM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) duplicate    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:31 AM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) Love everything by him. Raised on his music. Exactly how I feel!    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:41 AM     By:   dan the man   (Member) He was perfect for easy listening stations and if you read a old thread of mine, that is not an insult at all, good singer.    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 7:53 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) I'm certainly a fan ... my parents liked his songs and we always enjoyed hearing those famous ones on the radio in the 1960's. So much so that whilst my contemporaries were buying Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd et al. in the early 1970s ... I was buying the song stylists which included Nat 'King' Cole. For many years thereafter my collection included only compilations of his Greatest Hits and the odd other song but recently I've bought some of his albums which have been released on CD - usually imports since the UK seems limited to the aforementioned Hits albums. My database tells me I have 168 of his recordings (incl. an album of the Trio) so, say, 150 or so vocals. His recording of Hoagy Carmichael/Mitchell Parish's Stardust with Gordon Jenkins (1956 from the album Love is the Thing) is one of my all-time favourite songs ... even better than Sinatra's take on the song. Mitch    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 9:42 AM     By:   Ron Hardcastle   (Member) MusicMad: Re: My database tells me I have 168 of his recordings (incl. an album of the Trio) so, say, 150 or so vocals. Wow! I have a couple of his CDs and his greatest hits and Christmas album, plus the "Unforgettable" "duet" recording with Natalie, but NOTHING like that. Good for you!!!    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 9:59 AM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) I'm certainly a fan ... my parents liked his songs and we always enjoyed hearing those famous ones on the radio in the 1960's. So much so that whilst my contemporaries were buying Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd et al. in the early 1970s ... I was buying the song stylists which included Nat 'King' Cole. For many years thereafter my collection included only compilations of his Greatest Hits and the odd other song but recently I've bought some of his albums which have been released on CD - usually imports since the UK seems limited to the aforementioned Hits albums. My database tells me I have 168 of his recordings (incl. an album of the Trio) so, say, 150 or so vocals. His recording of Hoagy Carmichael/Mitchell Parish's Stardust with Gordon Jenkins (1956 from the album Love is the Thing) is one of my all-time favourite songs ... even better than Sinatra's take on the song. Mitch I love your comments about buying his recordings while others were buying the music of the day. I was doing that as well. I actually had some of his recordings on 8 track. I then switched to vinyl and lost all of my collection in a house fire which actually included some 78s from my childhood. I then began rebuilding my collection with cds and am not sure exactly how many I have but probably not your number. You must really cherish your collection. I have accumulated quite a few of the Trio recordings of late and must say there is a lot of diversity among each one. I am in the process of buying the Transcriptions box set by Blue Note Records. I also have the Love Is The Thing album and I totally agree with you about Stardust. It is wonderful. I also adore When I Fall In Love. Thanks for sharing.    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 10:36 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Count me in.    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 10:36 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Only 5 posters showing any love for Nat?? There may be trouble ahead...    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 11:47 AM     By:   Recordman   (Member) Only 5 posters showing any love for Nat?? There may be trouble ahead... OK, you can make it six, Bill. I've always thought Cole had the smoothest singing voice and regularly put Mel Torme to shame Especially pleased when Lukas was able to finally get Cole's theme song from "Raintree County" onto the FSM CD . I have many of his LPs and CDs    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 11:54 AM     By:   Stefan Huber   (Member) I have most of his commercial recordings - so I guess that makes me some kind of fan I have to say that I've never been "obsessed" by Cole the way I dig Sinatra (and have rarely listened to him in the last few years), but I was continuously playing his music when Bear Family released two box sets on him about five to ten years ago. I guess the single best album in his catalog is the "Nat King Cole Story". While albums of re-recordings of earlier hits often fail to impress (especially those when producers decided to replace orchestras with synths), this is a true winner - and often improves on the originals (let alone the difference in sound quality between a 1939 glass master and 1961 multi-track tape). The stand-out track to me on this album is Cole Porter's "I Am In Love" - it has one punch line after the next and there are no words to describe Nelson Riddle's arrangement (taken at a slightly faster pace in the 1961 Ralph Carmichael re-recording). You TRULY miss something if you haven't heard it... Unfortunately, his catalog has not always been served well on CD sound-wise. Many of the pre-2000 CD re-issues suffer from over-use of noise reduction and other mastering gimmicks such as fake stereo. A particularly bad example is the "Classic Singles" box set. The situation has improved with several of his albums now being available on SACD (some including the original mono mixes which are in many examples superior to their stereo counterparts!) and as HD downloads...    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 11:59 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) MusicMad: Re: My database tells me I have 168 of his recordings (incl. an album of the Trio) so, say, 150 or so vocals. Wow! I have a couple of his CDs and his greatest hits and Christmas album, plus the "Unforgettable" "duet" recording with Natalie, but NOTHING like that. Good for you!!! Hi Ron, It may seem a large number ... ... but it's dwarfed by other song stylists, namely: Shirley Bassey - 190 Dean Martin - 244 Matt Monro - 290 Doris Day - 315 and, of course: Frank Sinatra - 1,282 though these do include soundtrack recordings, too. E&OE ... I'm constantly working on my database to remove inconsistencies, errors, etc. But, yes, I think Mr. Cole is in my top 5 easy-listening artists (I generally prefer his songs to those of Ms. Bassey) Mitch    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 12:37 PM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Mitch, i didnt know monro had sung 290 songs!!    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 2:23 PM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) Mitch, i didnt know monro had sung 290 songs!! That total of mine does include some re-recordings (e.g. live/radio performances) but as he was recording for some 28 years I imagine there are many more. Back on topic: I enjoyed his role in the film Cat Ballou but in a documentary I watched again a few weeks ago I recall he wasn't too happy about it. I've read that many of his Trio fans were disappointed that he moved into the mainstream popular songs' arena ... for all the superb recordings he produced I'm glad he did. I'm missing recording dates (years, that is) for 50 of the recordings but of those I have, the earliest recording in my collection appears to be Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life from 1949 ... not a song/performance I'm too taken with. The latest appear to be from 1963, three tracks from his album Where Did Everyone Go?, once again arranged by the superb Gordon Jenkins. Cole's rendition of Edward Redding's The End of a Love Affair is what this music is all about. But not everything works for me: his jaunty take on A Cottage for Sale (Larry Conley & Willard Robinson) - arranger and year to be identified - is misjudged; Sinatra's mournful 1959 recording (with the aforementioned Gordon Jenkins) is far superior. Other favourites away from the big popular hits include To Whom It May Concern and In the Heart of Jane Doe (both from the 1959 Nelson Riddle arranged album by the name of that first song); I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) (1958/Jenkins) and his recording of On the Street Where You live (1963/Carmichael) is probably my most-loved rendition of that song. Mitch    Posted:   Jul 2, 2014 - 2:51 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) I was raised with the wonderful songs of Nat "King" Cole, and I love his music still. I'm surprised you didn't mention his marvelous appearance in 1965's Cat Ballou! He and Stubby Kaye sing the narration to the story in the most delightfully inventive sequences ever filmed! It was during production of this film that Cole got ill (he was coughing up blood) and eventually found out that he had lung cancer.    Posted:   May 23, 2017 - 6:05 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Yes, I am a Nat "King" Cole fan. An F. Scott Fitzgerald documentary (thank you, The Culture Show!) used Nat's instrumental trio's rendition of "The Man I Love" to great effect. I'm glad you mention the trio stuff in your initial post edwzoomom, because the track is most likely a great reminder to you of what a superb piano player Nat was. It's an aspect of his career that's largely forgotten by those who admire his beautiful singing voice, but his chops on piano are still listened to in awe by those of us who are jazz fans. "The Man I Love"    Posted:   May 23, 2017 - 8:22 AM     By:   Recordman   (Member)     Non-Film Score Discussion: Any Nat King Cole Fans Among Us?    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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