Nat King Cole
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MAY 02: Fashion designer Carolina Herrera accepts the Nat King Cole Award from EIF Womens Cancer Research Fund honorary chair Rita Wilson onstage during EIF Womens Cancer Research Funds 16th Annual An Unforgettable Evening presented by Saks Fifth Avenue at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 2, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Unlike the other casinos, black entertainers and guests could stay at Moulin Rouge. Heavyweight champion Joe Louis greeted visitors, and from the start, the club had sold-out shows that attracted A-list entertainers such as Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Tallulah Bankhead, Nat King Cole, and Sammy Davis Jr.
At first, Ray tried to imitate the style of Nat King Cole. That was OK, but he really found himself when he reached into his own soul and tapped into his spiritual roots
Music has been part of my family my whole life ... My mother and my father worked for Nat King Cole back in the '60s, so everyone in my family has musical gifts. I like to focus on that when I'm not on the field.More quotes »
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Mike Tyson's Spike Lee-directed show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," comes to LI's NYCB Theatre at Westbury Sunday
might think.At the start of the Spike Lee-directed show, Tyson came on stage to intro music from Jay-Z and, more surprisingly, Nat King Cole . The latter, in "Nature Boy," sang of "a very strange, enchanted boy" who takes a hard road to the life lesson that Read more »
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Extra Points: No lazy days for veterans on the bubble
King Cole first sang about those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer back in the 1960s, but America has always been enamored with beach season. Whether they're loading the kids into the minivan for a trip down the Jersey shore, fishing in the Florida Keys or from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) Read more »
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City Room: After 45 Years, a Song of Pain Is a Song of Comfort
Andy Williams and Harry Belafonte. But the B-side of one album was a weepy tune that made him feel as if the singer – Nat King Cole – were speaking directly to him. The song, “ The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot ,” told of a fatherless child who played from The New York Times Read more »
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The real IRS abuse was back when they targeted the gay
that they finally decided to lay off. LG: You know what? You got spunk. MR: Well, Yes... LG: I hate spunk! Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, and many others. I'm no philosopher, I am no poet, I'm just trying to help you out - Gomez (from from Daily Kos Read more »
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NATALIE COLE Celebrará La Riqueza Cultural De La Música Latina Con El Lanzamiento De "Natalie Cole en Español" El 25 De Junio
su propio programa regular de radio, y en obtener el papel de pionero como anfitrión en el programa de televisión "The Nat King Cole Show " que hizo debut en la cadena NBC en 1956. Pero a pesar de dicho éxito, la batalla por la igualdad continuó tanto en Estados from PR Newswire Read more »
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Natalie Cole To Release Spanish-language Album Featuring Latin Music Standards
being a wonderful compilation of Latin music standards previously recorded by Nat King Cole, the new album includes duets with the famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli ("Besame Mucho") and the iconic Dominican artist Juan Luis Guerra ("Bachata Rosa"). However, from About.com: Latin Music Read more »
