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A rockabilly version of "Mona Lisa" (b/w/ "Foolish One") was released by Carl Mann on Phillips International Records (#3539) in March 1959 and reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Conway Twitty recorded a version of "Mona Lisa" in February 1959, but planned to release it only as an album cut (on an EP and an LP, Conway Twitty Sings by ...
The 1950 song "Mona Lisa" recorded by Nat King Cole. The 1952 short story "The Smile" by Ray Bradbury, published in his 1959 collection A Medicine for Melancholy; The 1984 song "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" recorded by David Allan Coe. The 2011 song "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" by American rock band Panic! at the Disco.
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 ...
Nelson Riddle enjoyed a long and successful professional relationship with Nat King Cole. As his very first effort for Capitol Records, he arranged the singer's 1950 hit "Mona Lisa", and for the next 15 years the two collaborated on numerous singles and nearly a dozen LPs. A year after King Cole's death in 1965, Riddle arranged a tribute album ...
Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song) Mona Lisa (Prado) The Mona Lisa Curse; Mona Lisa exhibition, United States; The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen; Mona Lisa's Revenge; P ...
First African-American solo singer to have a #1 hit on the Billboard charts: Nat King Cole ("Mona Lisa"), topped "Best Sellers in Stores" chart on July 15 (See also: Mills Brothers, 1943; Count Basie, 1947; Tommy Edwards, 1958; The Platters, 1959) [citation needed]
The family of legendary singer-songwriter Nat King Cole, one of the most important and influential musicians of the 20 th century, has entered into an agreement with Irving Azoff’s Iconic ...
The Nat King Cole Story is a 1961 album by Nat King Cole. The album was a retrospective of Cole's recording career, designed to present many of his earlier hits in new recordings featuring stereo sound. Cole is accompanied on the re-recordings by many of the notable arrangers and bands that had appeared with him on the original records. [2]