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The original Nat King Cole recording, titled "Answer Me, My Love", was released by Capitol Records (catalog number 2687). This recording first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on 24 February 1954, and lasted for 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 6. It was the only version of the song to chart in America. [20] [21]
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), [1] known professionally by his stage name 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 that became hits on the pop charts.
"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.
1954 – Nat King Cole [3] – The best-selling version of the song which reached a peak Billboard position # 7 in 1955. [4] Cole re-recorded the song in stereo for his 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. 1956 – Deep River Boys — with orchestra recorded the song in Oslo on August 24, 1956.
A shortened edit of Nat King Cole's version was also used as the theme music to the BBC mockumentary Twenty Twelve, which had first aired earlier that year. 2019 Swedish TV Show Fartblinda (‘Blinded’) features a rendition of "Let’s Face the Music and Dance" in the trailer – vocals provided by Swedish music artist, GRANT. [20]
"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.
Maschwitz wrote the song under his pen name, Holt Marvell, at the behest of Joan Carr for a late-evening revue broadcast by the BBC. [4] The copyright was lodged in 1936. [ 5 ] According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , British cabaret singer Jean Ross , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] with whom Maschwitz had a youthful liaison, was the muse for ...
The song was covered by Marvin Gaye on his album A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965), Tony Middleton (1966), and Engelbert Humperdinck on his 1967 album The Last Waltz and by Johnny Mathis on Mathis Magic (1979), again with Cole's daughter Natalie Cole on Mathis' Unforgettable – A Musical Tribute to Nat King Cole (1983), and others including Cole's younger brother Freddy Cole.