The Nat King Cole Story

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Straighten Up and Fly Right
  2:36
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Sweet Lorraine
  3:22
• 3
  It’s Only a Paper Moon
  2:57
• 4
  (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66
  2:56
• 5
  (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 6
  The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
  3:11
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Nature Boy
  2:53
• 8
  Lush Life
  3:46
• 9
  Calypso Blues
  3:25
• 10
  Mona Lisa
  3:27
• 11
  Orange Colored Sky
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Too Young
  3:24
• 13
  Unforgettable
  3:27
  3.9 ★
• 14
  Somewhere Along the Way
  3:00
• 15
  Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Pretend
  2:45
• 17
  Blue Gardenia
  3:04
• 18
  I Am in Love
  2:33
• CD 2
• 1
  Answer Me, My Love
  2:55
• 2
  Smile
  2:53
• 3
  Darling, je vous aime beaucoup
  2:48
• 4
  The Sand and the Sea
  2:41
• 5
  If I May
  2:57
• 6
  A Blossom Fell
  2:41
• 7
  To the Ends of the Earth
  2:25
• 8
  Night Lights
  2:48
• 9
  Ballerina
  2:41
• 10
  Stardust
  3:14
  2.6 ★
• 11
  Send for Me
  2:30
• 12
  St. Louis Blues
  2:24
• 13
  Looking Back
  2:26
• 14
  Non dimenticar
  3:07
• 15
  Paradise
  3:11
• 16
  Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep
  1:55
• 17
  Ay, Cosita Linda
  2:13
• 18
  Wild Is Love
  2:48

More by Nat King Cole

10 Great Songs

10 Great Songs 2010

The Very Best of Nat King Cole

The Very Best of Nat King Cole 2006

Sings the Great Songs! / Thank You, Pretty Baby

Sings the Great Songs! / Thank You, Pretty Baby 2002

Night Lights

Night Lights 2001

Rockin' Boppin' & Blues

Rockin' Boppin' & Blues 2000

Where Did Everyone Go / Looking Back

Where Did Everyone Go / Looking Back 1999

Release credits

• Alvino Rey
  guitar [8, 15]
• Billy May
  conductor [15]
• Charles LaVere
  piano [10]
• Charles R. Grean
  orchestrator [6]
• Charlie Harris
  double bass [1.1-5, 1.16, 2.4]
• Dale Anderson
  percussion [8]
• Dave Cavanaugh
  conductor [17], instrument arranger [17]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [5]
• First Church Of Deliverance Choir
  choir vocals [16]
• Gordon Jenkins
  arranger [10], conductor [10, 15-16]
• Hank Jones
  piano [4]
• Joe Comfort
  bass [15], double bass [8]
• John Collins
  guitar [1.1-5, 1.16, 2.4-5]
• King Curtis
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Lee Gillette
  producer [1.1-9, 1.11-15, 1.17-18, 2.1, 2.3-18]
• Lee Young
  drums (drum set) [1.8, 1.15, 2.4-5]
• Milt Raskin
  piano [8]
• Nat King Cole
  lead vocals [10], piano [2.6-8, 2.11-12, 2.14-15, 2.17-18, 1.1-6, 1.9, 1.11-13, 1.15, 1.17-18], vocal [2.1-9, 2.11-18, 1.1-15, 1.17-18]
• Nelson Riddle
  arranger [12], conductor [18]
• Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [12]
• Pete Rugolo
  orchestrator [6]
• Ralph Carmichael
  arranger [2.4-5, 1.8], conductor [2.1-9, 2.11-14, 1.3-4, 1.6-10, 1.12-14, 1.17-18]
• Ralph Carmichael Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.10, 2.1-3]
• Stan Kenton
  conductor [11]
• Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [11]
• The Ralph Carmichael Orchestra and Chorus
  performing orchestra [2.13, 1.7, 1.14]
• Trio Irakitan
  vocal [17]
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Issues

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  The Nat King Cole Story

  3x 12" Vinyl
  1961
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  The Nat King Cole Story

  3x 12" Vinyl
  1965
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  The Nat King Cole Story

  2x CD
  4 June 1991
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  The Nat King Cole Story

  2x CD
  June 1991
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  The Nat King Cole Story

  2x Hybrid SACD (CD layer), 2x Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels), 2x Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, multichannel)
  2011
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  The Nat King Cole Story

  2x SACD
  1 February 2013