Nat King Cole
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - APRIL 18: (L-R) EIF Women's Cancer Research Fund co-founder Jamie Tisch, honorary chair Rita Wilson, co-founder Quinn Ezralow, Editor-in-Chief of Glamour magazine/Nat King Cole Award honoree Cindi Leive, co-founder Anne Douglas, honorary chair Kate Capshaw and co-founders Marion Laurie and Kelly Chapman Meyer onstage at the 15th Annual 'An Unforgettable Evening' Benefiting EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 18, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
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I had lots of suggestions from people in the record business, my friends, ‘Lionel you should do a Gershwin album, a tribute to Gershwin.’ ‘Lionel, you should do a tribute to Cole Porter.’ ‘Lionel, you should do Nat King Cole’s catalog,’ ... And, I kept thinking, ‘Why don’t I do Lionel Richie’s catalog?’ I only know how to be me. Do I rap? No, terrible. Am I a Gospel singer? Terrible. I’m a Southern boy. And, I went back and thought about it and I said, ‘What’s the place I haven’t been? Country. Where have all the songs gone? Country.’ So, I’ll put it out there to see if I get any response. The answer was everybody called.
Yeah, just Nat King Cole and that's it.
I really love jazz music … Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole are my idolsMore quotes »
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Letters
Hoping the beat goes on in Hadley I was there when Jolson sang in person. I heard Nat King Cole sing at the Paramount in New York. I was at the Copacabana when Johnny Ray sang "Cry Me a River." My mother took me to hear the Ink Spots. I heard Jimmy Cliff from GazetteNet | Northampton, MA Read more »
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The Cadillac Burger, P.J. Clarke’s
Wrap up National Burger Month with an original. The Cadillac Burger has been served at the original P.J. Clarke’s in New York since the late 1950s when Nat King Cole proclaimed the burger a winner. The legendary patty comes complete with lettuce, tomato, from Weekly Seven Read more »
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With thanks, a prom for mom
To her family, Catherine Frasca has always been their queen: irreplaceable, extraordinary and as true as the lyric Nat King Cole once crooned  unforgettable. But a diagnosis earlier this year was heart-wrenching for her loved ones: Frasca has stage 4 pa from The News-Press Read more »
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Was Paul McCartney (with fellow Beatles John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison) influenced/inspired by the classic hit of Nat King Cole (left)?
Just when I thought that Funfare has put a period to the minor controversy about the Beatles’ classic Yesterday, I would get the following very enlightening rejoinder from my favorite salinawit (or translate a song) specialist Pete Lacaba who will have t from Philippine Star Read more »
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No longer music to his ears
Does anyone remember the great singers such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Neal Sedaka and John Gary and how they always wore a tuxedo or suit when they performed and how you could understand every word? Now we from Belleville News-Democrat Read more »
