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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 ...
1965 -- Nat King Cole Trio: The Vintage Years; 1965 -- Nature Boy; 1966 -- Longines Symphonette Society Presents the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (box set) 1966 -- The Unforgettable Nat King Cole Sings the Great Songs; 1966 -- Sincerely; 1967 -- Stay as Sweet as You Are; 1967 -- The Beautiful Ballads; 1967 -- Thank You, Pretty Baby
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is the third and final cover of Nat King Cole on the album; David Browne of Entertainment Weekly felt that the decision to cover "The Christmas Song" with no vocals from her father benefited the song, which he said worked better "alone, not as a duet with the dead". [9]
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]
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 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 ...