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In 1955, during the 25th anniversary of its publishing, Time estimated that Carmichael received a total of $250,000 in royalties for "Stardust", while the song made at the time $15,000 to $20,000 a year. [62] Producer Lee Gillette convinced Nat King Cole to include the song on his 1957 release Love Is the Thing. Cole initially refused to record ...
Launching the charting single "Stardust", which peaked at #79, [5] the album reached #1 on Billboard's "Pop Albums" chart and tied at #1 on the UK Charts with the soundtrack for the 1956 film The King and I. [6] According to the records of the RIAA, the album achieved gold status in 1960 and broke platinum in 1992. [7] The LP was Cole's first ...
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 ...
1991 -- The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio (box set, Mosaic Records) 1991 -- The Unforgettable Nat King Cole (RIAA: Gold, [1] BPI: Silver) [2] 1992 -- Nat King Cole at the Movies; 1992 -- Christmas Favorites; 1992 -- The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: The Instrumental Classics; 1993 -- The Billy May Sessions
Stardust is a studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on September 24, 1996. Cole won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the song " When I Fall in Love ", a duet with Nat King Cole , at the 39th Grammy Awards .
This rendition, the first recorded in stereo, [12] is widely played on radio stations during the Christmas season, and has become the most popular/familiar version of this song. [4] Label credit: Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole, vocals; Hank Jones, pianist; John Collins, guitarist; Charlie Harris, bassist; Lee Young, drummer; Charlie Grean, Pete ...
A version was recorded by Nat King Cole on December 28, 1956. It was issued by Capitol Records on the album titled Love Is the Thing, catalog number SW824.The song was also used as the recurrent love theme in the 1957 film Istanbul, in which Cole sang the song onscreen.
A recording of the song was released by Nat King Cole in 1951, which reached No. 1 in the United States and became the best-selling song of the year. The song was an early attempt by music labels to appeal to the younger demographics and its success later led to a boom in music that catered to the young. [2]