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"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.
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 ...
Mark Murphy Sings Nat's Choice The Complete Nat "King" Cole Songbook Volumes 1 and 2 is a 1986 studio compilation album by Mark Murphy.. Mark Murphy Sings Nat's Choice The Complete Nat "King" Cole Songbook Volumes 1 and 2 is a compilation of two Muse Records studio albums by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy; namely, Mark Murphy Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook, Volume One and Mark Murphy ...
"Straighten Up and Fly Right" is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and one of the first vocal hits for the King Cole Trio. [3] It was the trio's most popular single, reaching number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for ten nonconsecutive weeks.
Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays is a 1962 studio album by Nat King Cole, featuring the pianist George Shearing. [6] Containing new arrangements of two songs that Nat King Cole made famous in earlier versions: I'm Lost and Lost April. [7] The album peaked at 27 on the Billboard album chart.
Nat King Cole – piano, vocals; John Collins – guitar; Charlie Harris – bass; Lee Young – drums; Willie Smith – alto saxophone on "Just You, Just Me," "You're Looking at Me," "Don't Let it Go to Your Head" and "I Was a Little Too Lonely" Harry Edison – trumpet on "Sweet Lorraine," "It's Only a Paper Moon," "Route 66," "You Can Depend ...
Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Asian mysticism. He slept ...
In 1983 Murphy decided to record a tribute album to his teenage idol Nat King Cole. Murphy said, "Everybody else was a Sinatra freak, but I was a Nat King Cole freak...He was like rhythmic honey". [1] Murphy said that Cole delivered, "the loosest, slipperiest vocals in the world". [2]