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| 1. Let's Face The Music And Dance (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 2. Mona Lisa (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 3. When I Fall In Love (2004 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 4. Unforgettable (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 5. It's All In The Game (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 6. Too Young (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 7. Nature Boy (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. Smile (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 9. Walkin' My Baby Back Home (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 10. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 11. Straighten Up And Fly Right (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 12. On The Street Where You Live (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 13. A Blossom Fell (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 14. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 15. Pretend (2004 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 16. Autumn Leaves (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 17. Looking Back (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 18. Send For Me (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 19. Love Letters (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 20. Somewhere Along The Way (2003 Digital Remaster) | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Nat King Cole's death in 1965, this compilation is the CD companion of an excellent DVD/documentary. Produced with the blessing of his estate, this disc is a thorough survey of his timeless genius--all recorded on the Capitol label. It captures his sumptuous and soothing tenor voice crooning on the pop tunes he made famous, like the ethereal "Nature Boy," the melancholy "Mona Lisa," and the bouncy "Straighten Up and Fly Right," and "Route 66." It also features Cole's often-overlooked skills as an Earl Hines-style pianist. "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)," and "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," attest to his international appeal, and see if you can keep a dry eye when you listen to Natalie Cole's posthumous, digitally-enhanced duet with her father on "Unforgettable." From strings to big bands, Nat King Cole is never out of style. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
Album Description
The World of Nat King Cole contains 28 remastered Nat King Cole classics and is released to mark the 40th Anniversary of Nat King Cole's passing in February 1965. In 1942, Nat King Cole was one of the first artists to sign with Capitol Records. Nat King Cole recorded over 150 charting singles, a staggering record that remains unbroken by any other artist ever signed to the label, which led to Capitol becoming known as "The House That Nat Built".
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Peerless,
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This review is from: The World of Nat King Cole (Audio CD)
Nat King Cole's singing, his range, tone, diction and phrasing, not to mention the quality of the arrangements and backing, be they the Nat King Cole Trio or Nelson Riddle's full orchestra, are all of what today's young pretenders strive to achieve. And good as some of them are, you only have to play this album, or any of the many others of his that are available, to realise that they have a long way to go to come anywhere near.Released to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, and in tandem with a DVD and television documentary, the packaging of this collection inevitably has the marketing department's mark, as opposed to the enthusiast's, on it. The accompanying booklet contains an article by daughter Natalie that is nearly all waffle and precious little detail about the music, and the tracklisting neglects to give any recording dates, which would have been helpful because they are not in chronological order - but it does show which tracks are mono and which stereo, in case our ears couldn't work that out. The album starts off with a bang, Billy May's vibrant big band arrangement and backing for "Let's Face The Music And Dance" making sure that everyone is awake, before settling down into the ballads that most people know and love. It's not all balladry, though, and later on there is a taste of more upbeat material, and it's nice to see the inclusion of some neglected classics like "Send For Me" and "Orange Coloured Sky" before things are wound up with his full and unsurpassed reading of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust". A couple of the tracks are alternative recordings to those normally heard - "Love Letters" and "Smile" - though to be fair, if you're not intimately familiar with them you won't notice. All of them, bar the engineered duet of "Unforgettable" with Natalie, have been digitally remastered; I remain unconvinced that this actually improves sound quality, but it does brighten up the backing instrumentation, and evens out the sound-level variations between tracks. Whatever little quibbles I have about the packaging of the product, the man's singing and music are what matters, and they are five-star without question. It goes without saying that there is plenty more where this came from, as a browse of the listings will reveal. This does nicely though, especially as a present - I bought it for Mother's Day, and it was very well received.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Unique Nat King Cole,
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This review is from: The World of Nat King Cole (Audio CD)
This album brings back memories of the unique style that is Nat King Cole.Rated as one of the great jazz pianist of all time, but his musicianship was appreciated by a wider audience through his singing.The 27 tracks here feature the songs of their time like "Walkin' my baby back home", his wonderful collaberation' with anther great jazz pianist George Shearing,in "Let there be love"and including the unimaginable duet with daughter Natalie in his classic "Unforgettable". This album is very much in line with todays renewed appreciation of this kind of music, and stands the test of comparison with the Michael Bubles and Diana Kralls. Great value and a must have in your collection.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not the same album universally .,
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This review is from: The World of Nat King Cole (Audio CD)
This is an excellent compilation covering recordings over a number of years , most of his well-known tracks , and with the re-mastered Unforgettable with the addition of Natalie Cole . However it does seem strange that this album is released also in the USA with different tracks , two of which should have been on this album . Record ( sorry , CD ) producers are strange animals in this respect .
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