Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (Montgomery, 17 March 1919 - Santa Monica, 15 February 1965) was an American jazz singer, pianist and songwriter. Cole is widely regarded as one of the best male vocal jazz and ballad interpreters of the fifties and sixties.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == NAT "King" Cole, as he is usually called, was born in Montgomery, Alabama .
 * 2 discography
 * 3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 4 external links

At the age of four, his family moved to Chicago. NATs father was Deacon in butcher and the True Light Baptist Church. The young organist was Wet by his mother, who was in the Church, encouraged to study music. From his twelfth year he sang Nat also played the church organ and Church songs. His real interest, however, soon went to the jazz music. His parents could not interest in the jazz music really appreciate it. Jazz was played in the nightclubs. The oldest brother of Nat, Eddie, had then already a well-known jazz band: the ' Rogues of Rhythm '. NATs youngest brother, Freddie, was later also singer.

In the year 1936 Wet to Los Angelesfrom 1936 to 1945, and gave its name from The King Cole Trio (in first formation with Oscar Moore and Wesley Prince). In 1943, he recorded the song ' Straighten Up and Fly Right ' on, that his first national hit song was. He based the song on one of his father's sermons and on a well known black folk tale. Cole was by his trio recordings as one of the great ones from the jazz world.

From 1945 decided wet to be heard outside of the jazz special voice. He developed more and more like (jazz)ballad singer. His distinctive baritone voice caused a millions sales at record label Capitol. Cole was the superstar of the 1950s, and not just in the United States. In 1956 released cover of When I fall in love brought him the following year a second place in the British charts.

When he bought a house in 1948 as the first black American in the white Hancock Park neighborhood in Los Angeles told the owners that they do not have him "undesirables" in the neighborhood wanted. Cole replied, "neither do I. And if I see someone get an unwanted, I am the first who complains. "

In the 1940s, Cole was the first African American with a own radio program and in the years 1956-1957 he was the first black American had its own weekly television show at NBC. He repeatedly toured as a film actor, including in St. Louis on Blues.

Cole smoked three packs of Kool-menthol cigarettes a day. According to Cole carried the cigarettes to his voice remained sufficiently low. For that reason he smoked three cigarettes for each recording usually behind each other. In the fall of 1964 noticed Cole that he lost weight. In October 1964, lung cancer found with him. Various treatments, including a cobalt therapy, not to beat and Nat King Cole died at the beginning of 1965 in the St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Nat King Cole was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale (California).

He was married to Maria Ellington and had five children. His daughter is singer Natalie Cole . In the 1990s she took the Unforgettable-with love on cd, filled with songs that were sung by her father earlier. In the title track mixed old and new recordings are so Wet and Natalie sing a duet.

In 1985 he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, as one of the first three that were included in this erehal. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 2006 Unforgettable [Castle]
 * 2006 Best of Nat King Cole [Cherished Class]
 * 2005 Mona Lisa [Pulse]
 * 2005 Christmas Song [Bonus Tracks]
 * 2003 stepping out of a Dream
 * 2003 Nat King Cole at the Sands [Bonus Tracks]
 * 2003 In the Beginning [Bonus Tracks]
 * 2002 Sharing the Holidays With Nat King Cole and Friends
 * 2002 Nat King Cole at the Sands [Reissue]
 * 2002 Got a Penny
 * 2002 Embraceable You [Prestige]
 * 2002 Destination Moon
 * 2001 Jazz at the Philharmonic
 * 2001 After Midnight [Bonus Tracks]
 * 1999 Live at the Circle Room
 * 1996 Christmas Song [CEMA]
 * 1995 Merry Christmas from Cole & Fitzgerald
 * 1995 Magic or Nat King Cole
 * 1995 Live
 * 1995 Favorite Ballads [Excelsior]
 * 1995 Christmas with Wet and Ella
 * 1995 Christmas Is for Kids
 * 1995 32 Live Original Songs
 * 1994 Sweet Georgia Brown
 * 1992 Christmas Song
 * 1991 Sweet Lorraine [Wiley]
 * 1991 Canta Español
 * 1990 Spanish, vol. 2
 * 1990 Spanish, vol. 1
 * 1989 Nat King Cole: The Great Movies and Shows
 * 1989 Let's Pretend
 * 1988 Christmas with Nat "King" Cole
 * 1987 Unreleased Nat King Cole
 * 1984 Trio Days
 * 1981 Walkin' My Baby Back Home
 * 1981 Nat King Cole: The Cool Cole
 * 1978 Nat King Cole Sings His Songs from "Cat Ballou"
 * 1974 Love Is Here to Stay
 * 1971 White Christmas
 * 1969 There, I've Said It Again
 * 1969 Smile
 * 1967 Thank You, Pretty Baby
 * 1967 Sincerely
 * 1967 Beautiful Ballads
 * 1966 Nat King Cole Sings Hymns and Spirituals
 * 1966 Nat Cole at J.A.T.P., vol. 2
 * 1966 Nat Cole at J.A.T.P., vol. 1
 * 1966 Great Ones!
 * 1965 Songs from Cat Ballou and Other Motion Pictures
 * 1965 L-O-V-E
 * 1964 Let's Face the Music!
 * 1964 I Don't Want to Be Hurt Anymore
 * 1963 Where Did Everyone Go?
 * 1963 Top Pops
 * 1963 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
 * 1963 Sings My Fair Lady
 * 1963 Nat King Cole Sings the Blues, vol. 2
 * 1962 Ramblin' Rose [Capitol]
 * 1962 Nat King Cole Sings the Blues, vol. 1
 * 1962 More Cole Español
 * 1962 Dear Lonely Hearts
 * 1961 Touch of Your Lips
 * 1961 String Along with Nat "King" Cole
 * 1961 Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays
 * 1960 Wild Is Love
 * 1960 Tell Me All About Yourself
 * 1960 Nat King Cole at the Sands
 * 1960 Magic of Christmas
 * 1960 Every Time I Feel the Spirit
 * 1959 Welcome to the Club
 * 1959 A Mis Amigos
 * 1958 Very Thought of You
 * 1958 To Whom It May Concern
 * 1958 Swingin' Side
 * 1958 St. Louis Blues
 * 1958 Cole Espanol & More, vol. 1
 * 1957 This Is Nat "King" Cole
 * 1957 Love Is the Thing (And More)
 * 1957 Love Is the Thing
 * 1957 1957 Live Broadcast
 * 1957-Lester Young King Cole Trio
 * 1957 Just One of Those Things [LP]
 * 1957 Just One of Those Things
 * 1957 After Midnight
 * 1956 Piano Style of Nat King Cole [LP]
 * 1956 Piano Style of Nat King Cole
 * 1956 Ballads of the Day
 * 1955 Vocal Classics
 * 1955 Sings for Two in Love [12-Inch LP Version]
 * 1955 Penthouse Serenade [12-Inch LP Version]
 * 1955 Nat "King" Cole Sings
 * 1954 Sings for Two in Love (And More)
 * 1952 Penthouse Serenade [10-Inch LP Version]
 * 1952 Penthouse Serenade
 * 1950 Nat King Cole at the Piano
 * 1948 King Cole Trio, vol. 3
 * 1946 King Cole Trio, vol. 2
 * 1944 King Cole Trio [Capitol]