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- Date Released: October 6, 1998
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Chronological Classics / Abeille Musique
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Volume Eight in the Classics Nat King Cole chronology follows his career from August 19, 1946 to July 2, 1947. By the summer of 1946 Cole was an exclusive Capitol recording artist and would remain so until his cigarette-induced death in 1965. As the postwar entertainment industry became increasingly obsessed with star vocalists, Nat King Cole's marvelously mellow voice proved to be intensely marketable. Echoes of Artie Shaw's sweet arrangements and a premonition of '50s production values occurred on what was actually Nat King Cole's second rendition of Mel Tormé's "Christmas Song" (recorded during a blistering August heat wave) with a string quartet plus harp added to a "trio" already enlarged to a quartet by the presence of drummer Jack "The Bear" Parker. Everything else on this compilation is played by the King Cole Trio, now serving more than ever as a backdrop for the voice of the leader. The only instrumentals are Cole's own "In the Cool of the Evening" (which sounds like a cousin to "Poinciana"), a gorgeous rumination on Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and a thrilling jam on Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose," presented as a sequel to the King Cole Trio's earlier version recorded for Decca on December 6, 1940.
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The Best Man (Alfred-Wise)
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3:08 |
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| 02. | |
The Christmas Song (Tormé-Wells)
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3:12 |
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| 03. | |
You Should Have Told Me (Evans-Bellin-Barnes)
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2:59 |
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(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (Best-Watson)
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2:54 |
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In The Cool Of The Evening (Cole)
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2:56 |
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| 06. | |
That's The Beginning Of The End (Whitney-Cramer)
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3:05 |
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| 07. | |
If You Don't Lile My Apples (Cole-Werner-Moreno)
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3:01 |
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| 08. | |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern-Harbach)
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2:57 |
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| 09. | |
I Want To Thank You Folks (Benjamin-Weiss)
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3:13 |
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| 10. | |
You're The Cream In My Coffee (Henderson-DeSylva-Brown)
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2:29 |
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| 11. | |
Come In Out Of The Rain (Sigman-Russell)
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2:56 |
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| 12. | |
You Don't Learn That In School (Alfred-Fisher)
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3:09 |
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| 13. | |
You Be You (But Let Me Be Me) (Ellis)
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3:08 |
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| 14. | |
Can You Look Me In The Eyes (Herrick-McMichael)
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2:48 |
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| 15. | |
Give Me Twenty Nickels (Woolf-Brandt)
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3:08 |
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| 16. | |
Meet Me At No Special Place (Pyle-Robinson-Terker)
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3:13 |
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| 17. | |
If You Don't Like My Apples (Cole-Werner-Werner-Moreno)
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2:41 |
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| 18. | |
Naughty Angeline (Roberts-Lee)
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2:43 |
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| 19. | |
I Miss You So (Henderson-Scott-Robin)
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3:04 |
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That's What (Cole-Moore)
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2:25 |
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Honeysuckle Rose (Waller-Razaf)
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2:39 |
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| 22. | |
Thanks For You (Hanighan-Wright)
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3:08 |
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It's Kind Of Lonesome Out Tonight (Ellington-George)
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3:14 |
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For Once In Your Life (Segal-Fisher)
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2:56 |
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24 Total Tracks, 71:06 Total Length
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Credits
- Oscar Moore - Guitar // Nat King Cole - Piano // Nat King Cole - Piano // Nat King Cole - Piano // Nat King Cole - Piano // Nat King Cole - Vocals // Nat King Cole - Vocals // Nat King Cole - Vocals // Nat King Cole - Vocals // Nat King Cole - Ensemble // Nat King Cole - Ensemble // Nat King Cole - Ensemble // Nat King Cole - Ensemble // Nat King Cole - Performer // Nat King Cole - Performer // Nat King Cole - Performer // Nat King Cole - Performer // Johnny Miller - Bass // Jack Parker - Drums // Anatol Schenker - Liner Notes
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