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Nat King Cole: My Father by Natalie Cole
The Telegraph ^

Posted on 06/20/2014 5:35:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

As a new documentary, Afraid of the Dark, and album, The Extraordinary, about Nat King Cole are released, Natalie Cole remembers her father and what it is like to sing his songs

It may be decades since his death, but Nat King Cole remains one of the world's most beloved and influential voices, as well as an iconic pop culture presence whose smooth, confident persona continues to endear him to new generations of fans.

As a new documentary, Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark, and an album, Nat King Cole: The Extraordinary, are released, his daughter, Grammy Award winner Natalie, remembers him and what it was like to sing his songs.

Nat King Cole conquered the pop charts in the Fifties and early Sixties as the warm-voiced singer of ballads such as Mona Lisa and Unforgettable.

But he was also went on to become the only black television star in Hollywood at a time when America groaned under the weight of racial segregation and prejudice.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 50s; music; natkingcole

1 posted on 06/20/2014 5:35:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

SNL, 1975: “Unforgettable: Natalie Cole Sings With All Her Dad’s Dead Old Friends”


2 posted on 06/20/2014 5:40:29 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: nickcarraway

Good to see this. So much information on influential musicians is never preserved.

I wish someone would write a biography of Julie London too.


3 posted on 06/20/2014 5:40:36 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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“I wish someone would write a biography of Julie London. too.”

Julie London? I would listen to her if she was reading recipes! ;-)


4 posted on 06/20/2014 5:48:47 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: nickcarraway

Nat King Cole’s voice, which I remember from the time I was a littlekid, reminds me of a black version of Perry Como.


5 posted on 06/20/2014 7:09:45 PM PDT by pbmaltzman
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To: nickcarraway

Nat King Cole was an amazing talent...absolutely amazing.His daughter did at least one or two excellent things as well.I didn’t know that he had ever appeared in films,however.


6 posted on 06/20/2014 7:40:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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Strange but true. In the mid sixties, when Cole was in his mid 40’s he fell hopelessly in love with a blond Swedish cast member from the Hee Haw comedy series named Gunilla Hutton. She got fired and it nearly cost Cole his marriage. He died of cancer not long after.
7 posted on 06/20/2014 7:49:42 PM PDT by Old North State
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The girl who was Nat's unforgettable love...
8 posted on 06/20/2014 7:56:53 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch; Old North State
'Nuther pic of Ms. Hutton


9 posted on 06/20/2014 8:03:41 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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10 posted on 06/20/2014 8:09:03 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Old North State

That would’ve been awfully difficult. “Hee Haw” didn’t premiere until 1969. Nat King Cole died in 1965.


11 posted on 06/20/2014 8:26:15 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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She was in the chorus of his stage show. That was even before her Petticoat Junction gig and long before Hee Haw.


12 posted on 06/20/2014 8:33:36 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Nat King Cole - I Found A Million Dollar Baby

13 posted on 06/21/2014 5:01:41 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Julie London? I would listen to her if she was reading recipes! ;-)

Julie London bloopers (warning offcolor language)

14 posted on 06/21/2014 10:41:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

“Julie London? I would listen to her if she was reading recipes! ;-)”

Or talking to doctors.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068067/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4


15 posted on 06/21/2014 10:44:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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