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"Pretend" is a popular song, written in 1952 by Dan Belloc, Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman and Frank Levere. The best-known recording, by Nat King Cole, [1] was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2346. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on January 31, 1953, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 3. [2]
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.
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 ...
20 Golden Greats is a greatest hits album by Nat King Cole. It was released by Capitol Records in 1978 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart , [ 1 ] where it was a posthumous number one . Track listing
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 ...
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)
For Sentimental Reasons: 25 Early Vocal Classics (or simply For Sentimental Reasons) is one of a number of albums released on the ASV/Living Era label, featuring recording artists mostly from the 1940s and 1950s, named for one of the major hits by the artist in question.
Nat King Cole – vocals; The Nat King Cole Trio – on "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons," "What'll I Do?" and "Lost April" The Carlyle Hall Strings – on "Lost April" and "A Portrait of Jennie" Les Baxter's Orchestra – on "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young" Pete Rugolo's Orchestra – on "Red Sails in the Sunset"