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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The King Cole Trio is a series of albums by jazz pianist Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio released by the Capitol Records label. These were Cole's debut commercial recordings. Originally recorded and released in sets of 78 r.p.m. records between 1944–49, they were reissued in 1950 on 10-inch LPs. The original releases of Volume 3 (as 78 r.p.m ...
'The Christmas Song' by Nat King Cole Nat King Cole delivers the best version of this nostalgic Christmas song, which has been covered by countless artists through the years. 'Have a Holly Jolly ...
Tangerine (1941 song) Tea for Two (song) Tenderly; That Ain't Right; That Sunday, That Summer; That's All There Is to That; This Is All I Ask; Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer (song) Thou Swell; Three Little Words (song) 'Tis Autumn; To the Ends of the Earth (song) Too Young (Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee song)
The cover version by Nat King Cole spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard singles chart in 1950. Cole's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. [ 7 ] Cole recorded this song again in a stereo version (with Ralph Carmichael and his Orchestra) on March 30, 1961.
NAT: An Orchestral Portrait of Nat "King" Cole is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle of music associated with the singer and pianist Nat King Cole. [1] The album was released a year after Cole's death in 1965; Riddle had previously arranged several of Cole's albums.