NAT "KING" COLE - Year by Year (part4)

I am not sure if this bit appeared in any of the NKC book biographies about CIRO'S.

So, Nat appeared at Ciro's night club off and on from 1948 through the mid-fifties.

 

Index to L-O-V-E book

Dale's song/album index from the Stardust book was very helpful to me so I wanted to return the favor. Here is the index to the L-O-V-E book. As with Dale's, some titles are merely mentions. Now that I finished this, I'll focus on finishing the Trio spreadsheet that I posted earlier.

(The board strips away my columns when it posts, so my apologies for having the page numbers against the titles. I couldn't figure out how to separate them here.)

A Media Luz 76
A Mis Amigos 75
After Midnight 59,105
After My Laughter Came Tears 108
After the Ball is Over 109
All by Myself 89
All Over the World 40,90,123,189
Almost Like Being in Love 121
Am I Blue? 101
Angel Eyes 95,102
Answer Me, My Love 16,52,127
Are You Disenchanted? 24
Autumn Leaves 127,128
Ay, Cosita Linda 50
Azure Te 70

Baby Blue 30,43
Ballerina 10,11
Be Still My Heart 104
Beautiful Friendship, A 70,72
Because You Love Me 61,62
Beggar for the Blues 24
Besame Mucho 76
Bidin’ My Time 56
Blue Gardenia 101,131
Blueberry Hill 34
Buon Natale 33

Cappuccina 62
Caroling, Caroling 34
Chiapanecas, Las 75
Cold, Cold Heart 56
Cole Espanol 73,75,76
Continental, The 11,12,138
Coquette 138
Cradle in Bethlehem, A 34

Darling, Je Vous Aime Beacoup 129
Day In, Day Out 56
Dear Lonely Hearts 80,81,88,89,90,91,108,134
Dear Lonely Hearts 84,88,90
Dinner for One Please, James 104
Don’t Forget 110,112
Don’t Go 71

Ebony Rhapsody 57,58,121
Embraceable You 50,52
End of a Love Affair, The 101
Every Time I Feel the Spirit 34
Everything Happens to Me 71

Farewell to Arms 104
Fascination 42
Felicia 124
Fiera de las Flores, La 75
First Baseball Game, The 63
For All We Know 97
Frosty the Snowman 33
Funny (Not Much) 10,11,42,43

Game of Love, The 71
Get Me to the Church on Time 121,122
Get Out and Get Under the Moon 108,110
Girl from Ipanema, The 137
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 34
Golondrina, La 75
Good Times, The 84,87,88,90
Goodnight Irene 87
Goodnight, Little Leaguer 62
Guadalajara 75
Guess I’ll Go Home this Summer 71

Hajji Baba 131
Happiest Christmas Tree, The 33
Happy New Year 104
Hark the Herald Angels Sing 34
He’ll Have to Go 85
How Did I Change? 40
How I’d Love to Love You 138
Hundreds of Thousands of Girls 23
Hymn to Him 122

I Am in Love 52
I Could Have Danced All Night 122
I Don’t Want it That Way 87
I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore 80,81,88,90,92,134,141
I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore 88,90,127
I Got it Bad (And That Ain’t Good) 70
I Heard You Cried Last Night 62
I Just Can’t See for Looking 92
I Keep Going Back to Joe’s 102,104
I Love You For Sentimental Reasons 6,52
I Remember You 39
I Saw Three Ships 34
I Still See Elisa 121
I Wanna Be a Friend of Yours 34
I Wish You Love 12,129
I Won’t Twist 17
I’m an Ordinary Man 122
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write
Myself a Letter 58
I’m Lost 70
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face 121,122
If I Knew 43
If I May 50,62
If Love Ain’t There 101
Illusion 42
In Love Again 24,
In Other Words (Fly Me to the Moon) 70
In the Cool of the Day 124
In the Good Old Summertime 109
In the Heart of Jane Doe 34
Introduction (to Wild is Love) 22,30
Is it Better to Have Loved and Lost? 28
It’s a Beautiful Evening 23,24,27
It’s a Lonesome Old Town 89,108
It’s Not What You Say 15,17

Joe Turner’s Blues 10,14,15
Joy to the World 34
Just One of Those Things 23,55,105

Laughing on the Outside 101
Laura 14
Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer 37,64
Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer 80,81,134,135
Le Bonheur C’est Quand On S’aime 128
Let Me Tell You 90
Let There Be Love 70
Let True Love Begin 61,62
Let’s Face the Music and Dance 54,55,56,59
Let’s Face the Music! 54,59,70,97,134
Lights Out 40,43
Little Christmas Tree 33
Lonesome and Sorry 89
Look No Further 63
Looking Back 28,61,104
Looking Back 50,84
Lost April 70
L-O-V-E 113,123,125,136,137,138
L-O-V-E 80,123,125,131,134,135,136,137,139,141,143
Love is the Thing 39,97
Lush Life 14,47,48,49,52,84

Magic Moment 63
Magic Night 28
Magic of Christmas, The 32,33,34,36,78
Make it last 61
Marnie 129,135
Misery Loves Company 90
Miss Otis Regrets 14
Miss You 89
Mona Lisa 6,16,22,47,51,52,83
Moon Love 57,60
More 137
More and More of Your Amor 135,137,138,139
More Cole Espanol 73,76
Mr. Cole Won’t Rock and Roll 15,16,17
Mr. Wishing Well 124
Mrs. Santa Claus 33
My Fair Lady 121
My First and Only Lover 89
My Heart’s Treasure 19,20
My Kind of Girl 137
My Kind of Love 12
My Love 29,138
My Need for You 40
My True Carrie Love 90

Nat King Cole (Capitol Masters) 113
Nat King Cole at the Movies 128
Nat King Cole at The Sands 7,10,11,12,16,17,43,129,138
Nat King Cole Sings His Songs from the Ballad of Cat Ballou (And Other Motion Pictures) 131
Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady 114,116,122
Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays 65,69,70,72,73,105
Nat King Cole Story, The 11,45,47,50,54,55,61,70
Nature Boy 6,16,52,83
Near You 90
Night Lights 138
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A 39,40
No Me Plattiques 76
No Other Heart 139
No, I Don’t Want Her 101
Non Dimenticar 50,62
Not So Long Ago 42,108
Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You 29
Nothing Goes Up (Without Coming Down) 84

Oh, How I Miss You Tonight 89
Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep 50
On a Bicycle Built for Two 109
On the Sidewalks of New York 109
On the Street Where You Live 121
One Has My Name 85
Only Forever 39
Only Yesterday 90
Orange Colored Sky 47,50,52

Paradise 39,50
Passing By 129
Peg O’ My Heart 34
People 90
Piano Style of Nat King Cole, The 14
Pick Up, The 24
Pick Yourself Up 70
Piel Canela 76
Poinciana 40
Pretend 16

Rag, a Bone, a Hang of Hair, A 90
Rain in Spain, The 121
Ramblin’ Rose 7,82,83,85,86,87,88,90,105,108,121
Ramblin’ Rose 80,81,84,88,91,97,105,134,135
Right Thing to Say, The 63
Route 66 60
Rules of the Road 58

Sand and the Sea, The 52
Say It Isn’t So 101
Send for Me 29,50
September Song 72
Serenata 70
Show Me 122
Silver Bird 90
Sincerely 139
Sing Another Song (And We’ll Go Home) 87,88,90
Sings for Two in Love 22,39,105,127
Skip To My Lou 87,88
Smile 52
Solamente Una Ves 75
Someone to Tell it To 30,43,101
Something Makes Me Want to Dance with You 58
Somewhere Along the Way 52
Spring is Here 97
St. Louis Blues 15,105
St. Louis Blues 50
Stardust 50,97
Stay With It 24,26
Steady 29
Step Right Up 63
Straighten Up and Fly Right 3,5,51,60
Sunday, Monday, or Always 39
Surrey with the Fringe on Top 12
Sweet Lorraine 4,5,52
Sweet William 15
Swiss Retreat 137,138

Take a Fool’s Advice 61,62
Tell Her in the Morning 24
Thanks to You 138
That Sunday, That Summer 110,112,113,122
That’s a Natural Fact 96
That’s All There Is 94,102,140
That’s What They Meant 110,112
That’s You 138
The Ballad of Cat Ballou 131
The Christmas Song 33,36,52
There is a Tavern in the Town 109
There’s a Lull In my Life 70
There’s Love 138
They Can’t Make Her Cry 131
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer 105,107,108,110,112,122,123
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer 105,106,107,108,109,112,123
Thou Swell 12
Thousand Thoughts of You, A 124
Three Little Words 138
To the Ends of the Earth 15,52
To Whom It May Concern 19,24,29
Too Little, Too Late 56,59
Too Young 16,52
Too Young to Go Steady 16
Touch of Your Lips, The 39,40
Touch of Your Lips, The 1,27,30,37,39,43,69,72,97,108
Tres Palabras 75
Tu Eres Tan Amable 129
Tu Sei Cosi Amabile 129
Twilight on the Trail 87
Two Different Worlds 40

Unforgettable 11,52

Very Thought of You, The 39,97

Walkin’ My Baby Back Home 52,60
Wanderlust 135,137,139
Warm and Willing 58
Was That the Human Thing to Do 90
When I Fall in Love 97
When It’s Summer 30,43
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street 56
When Sunny Gets Blue 28,102
When the World was Young 94,96,102,104,110
When You’re Smiling 82,85
Where Did Everyone Go? 94,97,101,104,105,108,110
Where Did Everyone Go? 94,95,96,97
Where or When 12,14
Who’s Next in Line 84
Why Should I Cry Over You 89
Wild is Love 18,19,20,21,22,24,26,27,39,45,50
Wild is Love 22,23,27,28,30
With a Little Bit of Luck 121,122
Wolverton Mountain 87,88
World of Nat King Cole, The 104
World of No Return 24
Wouldn’t You Know 24

Yearning 89
You Are Mine 30,43
You Did It 121,122
You Leave Me Breathless 12
You Tell Me Your Dream 109
You’ll See 124,129
You’re Everything 90
You’re Mine You 39,42
You’re My Everything 82
You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You 34
Your Cheatin’ Heart 87
Your Love 138

 

Coleman - thank you. Wow! As you know, I appreciate the work and effort that went into this song/album index to the L-O-V-E book from Bear Family. I will be using this shortly. And thanks again for your Trio spreadsheet.

 

You're very welcome, Dale. Yes, it was definitely a chore. The Trio spreadsheet is next on the list to complete. My goal is finish it over the next couple weeks.

 

Just picked up a NM/NM "Angels" LP off ebay for a total of $16! Considering that the last one I tried for went for over $50, I consider this to be an excellent deal! I am surprised, actually, that it went for as little as it did. Needless to say, I'm quite pleased. I think I'm down to fewer than 4 missing tracks.

 

Congrats. When I found one awhile back, I think I found it using the promotional record number - PRO 4303. I didn't even realize then that some considered the title to be based on the phrase used on the back cover -- "Where The Angels Gathered To Sing..."

 

That may have been why it sold for as little as it did. The seller did not list the record number. The copy that went for over $50 did have the number listed. I was alerted to this listing because it fit my search criteria for autographed Cole items.

Here is a short, 1967 article in Jet about the ball. I wonder where that gold copy is today. Does anyone know how many of these records were given out? It looks like the number of this copy is 366. Anyone have a higher number?

 

I have No. 313. I bought mine off ebay a few years back... but I can't recall how much I paid. I don't think I would have spent more than $20, though. Mine was still in the shrinkwrap. (And I was amazed they bothered to shrinkwrap these, as they back covers had to be autographed first...)

 

Congrats, Jordan and Chris, your names are up in lights. In the thread New Analogue Productions Nat King Cole on 45 RPM vinyl, surround SACD, CD Pt. 2 , I linked to the Acoustic Sounds video on the Nat King Cole project. At the end we see several thank you boards including

 

One could keep worse company, I suppose. Thanks, Dale.

 

I received the new Mosaic box set of Jimmie Lunceford today. Nat King Cole liked Jimmie Lunceford's band. In Part 1 or 2, I quoted an interview with Nat in a British magazine where he was praising their swing.



In the booklet is a photo from the Dave Dexter Collection of Nat, Jimmie, and Lena Horne at a Jubilee broadcast.

 

I looked at coleman's NAT ON RADIO list and found the Jubilee radio program of June 26, 1944 that has Lunceford and Cole. But, I also found another Jubilee show from July 24, 1944 with Lunceford, Cole and Lena Horne.

A podcast of the June 26, 1944 Jubilee show is linked below. I thought there was slightly better sound if you click on the DOWNLOAD link which is Quicktime. However don't expect great sound.

http://retro-otr.com/2011/06/jubilee-jimmie-lunceford-nat-king-cole-440613/

 

Jubilee program No. 85 in podcast above.

AFRS program announcer: Bob Moon
Master of Ceremonies: Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman
Studios: NBC, Hollywood
Pre-recording dates: June 1944
Date of dubbing: June 26, 1944
Label information:
Notes:
Side 1, wax info: HD4-MM-7797-1
01 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump
01 Little John
02 I Just Can‘t See For Lookiń
03 Comedy skit
01 The Goon Came On - v JT
04 Tico Tico - v CM
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Side 2, wax info: HD4-MM-7798-1
05 Comedy skit
06 Mama, Mama, Yo Quiero - v CM & band
02 Hit The Jive, Jack
01 Alone Together
01 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc)

- 01 Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra
Probably Jimmy Lunceford, playing most reed instruments including the flute, fronting:-
Freddy Webster, Harry “Pee-Wee” Jackson, Robert Mitchell, Paul Webster, trumpets;
Fernando Arbello, Russell Bowles, James Young, trombones; Omer Simeon, alto saxo & clarinet;
Benny Waters, Dan Grissom, Kurt Bradford, alto saxes; Joe Thomas, tenor sax & vocal; Earl Carruthers,
baritone and alto saxes, clarinet, vocal; Edwin Wilcox, piano; Al Norris, guitar; Charles “Truck” Parham, string bass; Jimmy Crawford, drums.

- 02 Nat King Cole Trio
Nat King Cole, piano & vocal; Oscar Moore, guitar & vocal, Johnny Miller, string bass & vocal.

- 03 Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen & Ernest Whitman. Comedy skit.

- 04 Carmen Miranda. Carmen Miranda, vocal, acc. by unidentified “Samba” orchestra.

- 05 Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen & Carmen Miranda. Comedy skit.
- 06 Carmen Miranda. Carmen Miranda, vocal, acc. by small “Samba” band, possibly composed of members of the larger orchestra as shown under - 04.

 

coleman, for your radio list:

44/07/24 -- Jubilee - Guests: Jimmie Lunceford, King Cole Trio, Lena Horne

Here is the podcast of the program if you want to sample it.

http://retro-otr.com/2011/07/jubilee-jimmie-lunceford-lena-horne-440711/

 

from the Jubilee discography for the program just above:


*
No. 89
AFRS program announcer: Bob Moon
Master of Ceremonies: Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman
Studios: NBC, Hollywood
Pre-recording dates: July 1944
Date of dubbing: July 24, 1944
Label information:
Notes:
Side 1, wax info:
01 Introduction & unidentified theme
01 Introduction & theme: One O‘Clock Jump
01 Hallelujah
02 Fuzzy Wuzzy
03 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea - v LH
04 Comedy skit
-
Side 2, wax info:
05 Farewell To Riverside
03 I‘ll Walk Alone - v LH
02 Straighten Up And Fly Right
01 Pistol Packing Mama - band vocal
01 Signoff & theme: One O‘Clock Jump (nc)

- 01 Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra
Probably Jimmy Lunceford, playing most reed instruments including the flute, fronting:-
Freddy Webster, Harry “Pee-Wee” Jackson, Robert Mitchell, Paul Webster, trumpets;
Fernando Arbello, Russell Bowles, James Young, trombones; Omer Simeon, alto saxo & clarinet;
Benny Waters, Dan Grissom, Kurt Bradford, alto saxes; Joe Thomas, tenor sax; Earl Carruthers, baritone and
alto saxes, clarinet, vocal; Edwin Wilcox, piano; Al Norris, guitar; Charles
“Truck” Parham, string bass; Jimmy Crawford, drums; band vocal.

- 02 Nat King Cole Trio
Nat King Cole, piano & vocal; Oscar Moore, guitar & vocal; Johnny Miller, string bass &
vocal.

- 03 Lena Horne
Lena Horne, vocal, acc. by unidentified orchestra, possibly the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra.

- 04 Lena Horne & Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen. Comedy skit.

- 05 Joe Sullivan. Joe Sullivan, piano soloist.
NOTE: Joe Sullivan: “A couple of riffs and runs I knocked together that add up to a poor man‘s
concerto I call "Farewell To Riverside"”.

 

Three more podcasts that include Cole are listed on this page:

http://retro-otr.com/category/music/jubilee/feed/

Evidently they are these three from coleman's list:

43/10/04 -- Jubilee #45 - Guests Erskine Hawkins, Nat King Cole, (Nat sings "Slender, Tender and Tall"), 30 min.
43/11/08 -- Jubliee - Guests: Louis Jordan, Nat King Cole
44/02/14 -- Jubilee - Guests: Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole

I haven't listened to all of them. Be forewarned that the Cab Calloway podcast is running at the wrong speed -- slow -- and that the sound is pretty bad. I could only listen to about two minutes... yikes

 

Thanks, Dale. I'll have the list updated by the end of next week. The overall format needs a little rework, too. When I finish the Trio spreadsheet, I'll work on giving the Radio and TV list a similar treatment.

 

Dale, thanks for the links. I noticed that what we have as the 43/10/04 show is listed as 43/09/20. I added the other date there, but am wondering which is correct. I listened to the first couple minutes of the show, but no date was mentioned.

 

Short answer:
I would go with the October 4, 1943 date (the dubbing date for the show) as given in the Jubilee discography. I don't know where this radio podcast came up with the September date of the 20th.


Long answer:
Trying to figure out dates on Jubilee radio broadcasts discs sort of opens up a whole can of worms. There were often several dates involved for one show:

• Pre-recording dates -- sometimes Nat (and others) pre-recorded his segment for inclusion on a Jubilee broadcast disc.

• Dubbing dates -- In most cases this date is as official as it is going to get, because the dubbing date was often noted on the disc.

• Initial broadcast dates varied all over the world, depending on where the troops were.

Then to make this King Cole Trio Jubilee recording of "Slender, Tender and Tall" more confusing , it was used on two different Jubilee broadcast discs. Jubilee # 29 for June 14, 1943 (dubbing date) and Jubilee # 45 for October 4, 1943 (dubbing date).

Teubig's book lists Nat's recording date for this song as June 14, 1943.

 

Did a little more research on this. Seems tickets to the ball were sold through Capitol and went for $25, $50, and $100. That's $166, $333, and $666 in 2011. The records were sold separately. 1,500 records were pressed. The framed, gold master was auctioned and won by Steve Allen for $950/$6,329 (1967/2011). Lee Gillette personally chose the tracks for the album.

Frank DeVol, Nelson Riddle, and Ralph Carmichael worked on the overture for the evening, with Nelson Riddle performing with a 16 piece orchestra and Wayne Newton on vocals.

I got my copy in the mail yesterday. #344. Record is in as close to mint as possible and still has the plastic wrap on it. Interesting that Maria Cole signed "Mrs. Nat King Cole" and did her best to copy his signature.

 

From a garage sale, last weekend (50 cents):

 

I must have one of the last pressings then. Mine is #1565.

 

So much for the 1,500 quote. 1,600 perhaps? I wasn't able to find out for how much they sold.

 

In case anyone does not have this or wants a backup copy, one is now available on ebay. Four days left and the current price is $15. It's listed without the title or the record number, so it should go fairly cheaply. Listing is here. Record is stamped #1260.