The Essential Nat King Cole

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Unforgettable
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Walkin' My Baby Back Home
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 3
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  3:00
• 4
  Straighten Up & Fly
  2:36
• 5
  Black Spider Romp
  2:37
• 6
  Early Morning Blues
  2:46
• 7
  Embraceable You
  3:23
• 8
  Faith Can Move Mountains
  3:10
• 9
  Frim Fram Sauce
  3:09
• 10
  Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  2:56
• 11
  All for You
  3:24
• 12
  Gone With the Draft
  2:41
• 13
  Hit That Jive Jack
  2:57
• 14
  Jivin' With Jarvis
  2:38
• 15
  Just You, Just Me
  1:46
• 16
  Laura
  2:43
• 17
  On the Sunny Side of the Street
  2:51
• 18
  Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  3:03
• 19
  Scotchin' With Soda
  2:34
• 20
  Orange Coloured Sky
  2:22
• CD 2
• 1
  Mona Lisa
  3:15
• 2
  Lost April
  2:58
• 3
  Naughty Angeline
  2:39
• 4
  Almost Like Being in Love
  1:53
• 5
  Body and Soul
  3:22
• 6
  Don't Blame Me
  2:24
• 7
  I Like to Riff
  2:48
• 8
  Jack the Bellboy
  2:50
• 9
  Lush Life
  3:13
• 10
  Are You Fer It
  3:13
• 11
  But She's My Buddy's Chick
  3:00
• 12
  Once in a Blue Moon
  2:53
• 13
  Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em With Ribbon
  2:41
• 14
  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  2:35
• 15
  You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You
  2:50
• 16
  What'll I Do
  3:03
• 17
  This Can't Be Love
  2:30
• 18
  That Ain't Right
  3:18
• 19
  Somewhere Along the Way
  2:52
• 20
  A Portrait of Jennie
  3:08
• CD 3
• 1
  (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  3:00
• 2
  My Funny Valentine
  2:08
• 3
  Nature Boy
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Pretend
  2:43
• 5
  Love Is Here to Stay
  2:47
• 6
  Because You're Mine
  3:10
• 7
  Baby, Baby All the Time
  2:58
• 8
  Call the Police
  3:13
• 9
  I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance
  2:56
• 10
  Babs
  2:27
• 11
  Christmas Song
  3:11
  3.8 ★
• 12
  Dough-Ra-Me
  3:08
• 13
  I'm Never Satisfied
  2:12
• 14
  Jet
  2:48
• 15
  Red Sails in the Sunset
  3:17
• 16
  Rose Room
  2:46
• 17
  This Will Make You Laugh
  3:20
• 18
  Sweet Georgia Brown
  2:25
• 19
  Too Young
  3:12
• 20
  Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
  3:03

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Where Did Everyone Go / Looking Back

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Release credits

• Alex Beller
  violin [1]
• Alvino Rey
  guitar [2]
• Ann Mason Stockton
  harp [1]
• Billy May
  conductor [2]
• Bob Bain
  guitar [1]
• Buck Skalak
  saxophone [4]
• Buddy Cole
  celesta [1], piano [1.1, 2.4]
• Carlyle Hall
  conductor [20], strings [20]
• Charles R. Grean
  orchestrator [11]
• Charlie Harris
  double bass [1.16, 1.18, 2.4, 3.16, 3.20]
• Cy Bernard
  cello [1]
• Dan Lube
  violin [1]
• Dave Sterkin
  viola [1]
• Ed Kusby
  trombone [4]
• Eleanor Slatkin
  cello [1]
• Erno Neufeld
  violin [1]
• Frank De Vol and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [3]
• Harry Bluestone
  violin [3.3, 1.1]
• Henry Hill
  violin [1]
• Irving Ashby
  guitar [2.9, 2.20, 3.4]
• Jack Costanzo
  bongos [2.4, 2.9, 3.16], congas [9]
• Jack Dumont
  saxophone [4]
• Jimmy Priddy
  trombone [4]
• Joe Comfort
  bass [2], double bass [3.4, 1.1, 2.9, 2.20]
• Joe Costanzo
  congas [1]
• Joe Koch
  saxophone [4]
• John Collins
  guitar [1.16, 1.18, 2.4, 3.16, 3.20]
• Johnny Miller
  double bass [3.1, 3.3, 2.15, 1.7, 1.10], vocal [7]
• Lee Gillette
  producer [3.4, 3.11, 1.2]
• Lee Young
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 1.2]
• Manny Klein
  trumpet [4]
• Marshall Sosson
  violin [1]
• Milt Bernhart
  trombone [4]
• Mischa Russell
  violin [1]
• Nat King Cole
  lead vocals [1], piano [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.11, 3.16, 3.20, 2.4, 2.9, 2.15, 2.20, 1.2, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18-19], vocal [1.1-2, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.19, 2.4, 2.9, 2.15, 2.20, 3.1, 3.3-5, 3.11]
• Nelson Riddle
  arranger [1.1, 2.4], conductor [2.4, 1.1, 3.4]
• Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.1, 3.4-5, 2.4]
• Nick Fatool
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Norris "Bunny" Shawker
  drums (drum set) [1.16, 1.18, 3.16, 3.20], membranophone [16]
• Oscar Moore
  additional [3], guitar [3.1, 3.3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.12, 1.19, 2.15], vocal [7, 12, 19]
• Paul Robyn
  viola [1]
• Pete Candoli
  trumpet [4]
• Pete Rugolo
  conductor [9], orchestrator [11]
• Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [9]
• Ralph Carmichael
  conductor [4, 11]
• Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy
  trumpet [4]
• Shorty Sherock
  trumpet [4]
• Si Zentner
  trombone [4]
• Skeets Herfurt
  saxophone [4]
• Ted Nash
  saxophone [4]
• The Nat King Cole Trio
  instrument [1], performer [1]
• Walter Edelstein
  violin [1]
• Wesley Prince
  bass [12], double bass [12, 19]
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Issues

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  The Essential Nat King Cole

  3x CD
  20 September 2004