TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6953
Nat King Cole Album Rankings
1
This CD has many of Cole's most interesting Capitol dates away from his trio.
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Nat King Cole recorded the definitive version of "The Christmas Song" in 1946, and while this 1960 re-recording is sublime, seek out the original.
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3
For those who cannot afford or get a hold of the magnificent Mosaic 18-CD box set, this single CD offers a fine sampling of Nat King Cole's talents as a pianist and jazz singer with his popular trio i
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4
The year after he had formally disbanded his trio to turn his attention to vocal pop music,Nat "King" Colereversed himself and went into the studio with guitaristJohn Collins, bassistCharlie Harris, a
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5
Nat King Cole Sings For Two In Lovewas Nat King Cole's first album to be specifically for the new 12-inch LP format.
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A '92 reissue designed to take advantage of the success Cole's daughterNataliehad with a reworked version of "Unforgettable" that featured her doing duets with her father via digital technology.
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Easily the longest of any Capitol single-disc compilation, 2005'sThe World of Nat King Colealso benefits from a fresh remastering of its material to make it the best introduction to the interpretive b
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8
For all the resurgence in interest in Nat King Cole since 1991, when his daughterNatalierecorded a duet patching her new vocal with his from 40 years earlier and scored a gold-selling hit, Capitol Rec
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9
For an overview of Nat "King" Cole's years as a remarkably popular singer, this four-CD box would be difficult to top.
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10
There was little hope of Alanis Morissette sustaining the humongous success of her breakthroughJagged Little Pilland it's unlikely that she or her fans expected her to.
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12
This 1996 gold audiophile CD reissue of a 1956 Nat King Cole vocal set is augmented by three numbers taken from his similar 1963 album Where Did Everyone Go? By the mid-'50s, Cole was primarily known
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13
Released just in time for Valentine's Day 2003, the Capitol compilation Love Songs is a generous collection of romantic ballads sung by Nat King Cole.
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17
As an introduction to their new "Songbook Series," Capitol has reeled together a sampling of one of the greatest interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
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34
A year after Nat "King" Cole's death, Capitol Records released this "live" album, recorded at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1960.
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44
Pianist/singer Nat King Cole recorded so extensively in the 1940s that putting together a one-disc sampler of his work with his trio must have been a daunting task.
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62
Nat King Cole recorded the definitive version of "The Christmas Song" in 1946, and while this 1960 re-recording is sublime, seek out the original.
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64
This is a very interesting transitional collection featuring Nat King Cole when he was gradually emphasizing his vocals over his jazz piano playing and phasing out his Trio.
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