Nat King Cole

Biography

His/her parents, installed with Chicago, very early initiate it with the Musique, in particular his/her mother who directed the chorus of the Église Baptist where his/her father was Pasteur. At 12 years, it starts to take particular lessons of Piano and holds the Orgue of the church.

It assembles its first group with his Eddie brother and occurs in a club. They arrive to enregitrer four unperceived last titles for Decca in 1936. It integrates a musical review in 1937, then share for Los Angeles where it forms its first Trio with Oscar Moore and Wesley Prince. It is at that time that he inherits his nickname of “Nat King Cole” who would have been given to him by an owner of club with Los Angeles. In 1939, it records with King Cole Swingers four discs for the label Davis & Schwengler. Then it recruit a beater and leave “I Like To Rif” and “One The Sunny Side Of The Street” on Ammor. In 1940, they signs at Decca, and obtain their first success of regard the following year with “Sweet Lorraine” under the name of King Cole Trio . The group becomes four-bit byte, then quintet, and the recording are connected with New York (“That Ain' T Right”, “All For You”).

In 1943, of return to Los Angeles, Cole makes its beginnings with the cinema in Here Comes Helmer and Pistol Packin' Mama . Do its recordings for Capitol Records include/understand successes “Straighten Up and Fly Right”, n°9 in the classification of better record sales in the United States, and “Gee, Baby, Ain' T I Good to You? ”. He plays in Pin-up Girl and in Stars One Parades in 1944, and obtains an immense tube in 1946 with “Route 66”. Gradually, the facts will teach him that although it is a Pianiste of Jazz of great talent, success is granted to him as a Chanteur varieties with, enter others, from the titles as “(I Coils You) For Sentimental Reasons” (n°1 in 1947), “Natural Servant boy” (better sale of 1948), “Mona LISA” or “Unforgettable”, taken again years later by his/her daughter Natalie Cole. Its adaptation of “Quizas, quizas, quizas”, in 1958, must also be retained like one of its greater successes.

In 1945 its first album leaves: The King Sticks Trio , which becomes the first n°1 new classification of the albums of Billboard magazine. In 1962, the album Ramblin' Pink remains classified during 62 weeks. It still appears in many musical films, of which it is now the high-speed motorboat, and plays its first dramatic part in 1958 in Saint-Louis Blues , where it plays the part of W.C. Handy.

April 10th, 1956, Nat King Cole is victim of a racist aggression on scene with Birmingham (Alabama). In November of the same year begins The Nat King Cole Show on the television channel NBC, which is removed one year later because no advertiser wants to support an emission animated by a black singer. It obtains its last tube in 1963 with “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer” Nat King Cole married Nadine Robinson of 1937 to 1947, then Maria Ellington in 1948. In 1951, the federal police fell to him above for a history from tax arrears and seizes its castle.

He was freemason.

Nat King Cole died of a lung cancer in 1965.

Discography

2006 Unforgettable *2006 Best off Nat King Cole Class
2005 Mona LISA *2005 Christmas Song Tracks
2003 Stepping out off has Dream
2003 Nat King Cole At the Sands Tracks
2003 In the Beginning Tracks
2002 Sharing the Holidays With Nat King Cole and Friends
2002 Nat King Cole At the Sands *2002 Got has Penny
2002 Embraceable You *2002 Destination Moon
2001 Jazz At the Philharmonic
2001 After Midnight Tracks
1999 Live At the Circle Room
1996 Christmas Song *1995 Merry Christmas from Favorite Adhesive & Fitzgerald
1995 Magic off Nat King Cole
1995 Live
1995 Ballads *1995 Christmas with Nat and Ella
1995 Christmas Is for Kids
1995 32 Original Live Songs
1994 Sweet Georgia Brown
1992 Christmas Song
1991 Sweet Lorraine *1991 Laid Español
1990 Spanish, vol. 2
1990 Spanish, vol. 1
1989 Nat King Cole: The Great Films and Shows
1989 Let' S Claims
1988 Christmas with Nat " King" Stick
1987 Unreleased Nat King Cole
1984 Trio Days
1981 Walkin' My Baby Back Home
1981 Nat King Cole: The Cool Sticks
1978 Nat King Cole Sings His Songs from " Cat Ballou"
1974 Coils 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 COILS
1964 Let' S Face the Music!
1964 I Don' T Want to Be Hurt Anymore
1963 Where Did Everyone Go?
1963 Signal Pops
1963 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days off Summer
1963 Sings My Fair Lady
1963 Nat King Cole Sings the Blues, vol. 2
1962 Ramblin' Pink *1962 Nat King Cole Sings the Blues, vol. 1
1962 More Sticks Español
1962 off Dear Lonely Hearts
1961 Touch Your Lips
1961 String Along with Nat " King" Stick
1961 off Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays
1960 Wild Is Love
1960 Such Me All About Yourself
1960 Nat King Cole At the Sands
1960 Magic Christmas
1960 Every Time I Feel the Spirit
1959 Welcome to the Club
1959 Mis Amigos
1958 Very Thought off 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" Stick
1957 off Love Is the Thing (And More)
1957 Love Is the Thing
1957 Live 1957 Broadcast
1957 Lester Young-King Cole Trio
1957 Just One Those Things *1957 Just One off Those Things
1957 After Midnight
1956 Piano Style off Nat King Cole *1956 Piano Style off Nat King Cole
1956 Ballads off the Day
1955 Vocal Classics
1955 Sings for Two in Coils LP Version
1955 Penthouse Serenade LP Version
1955 Nat " King" Cole Sings
1954 Sings for Two in Coils (And More)
1952 Penthouse Serenade 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

Titles n°1

(I Coils You) For Sentimental Reason - US N°1 February 1947
Nature Servant boy - US N°1 May June 1948
Mona LISA - US N°1 July August 1950
Too Young - US N°1 June July 1951

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