(original recordings) – January 30, May 6, September 30, 1958, April 1959, March 1, 1960 (new recordings) – March 22–24, 27, 29–30, April 3, July 6, 19–20, 1961[1]
Studio
Capitol (New York)
Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre
Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length
103:45
Label
Capitol
Producer
Lee Gillette
Nat King Cole chronology
The Magic of Christmas (1960)
The Nat King Cole Story (1961)
The Touch of Your Lips (1961)
Singles from The Nat King Cole Story
"Nature Boy" Released: March 29, 1948
"Too Young" Released: March 26, 1951
"Looking Back" Released: March 1958
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
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The Nat King Cole Story is a 1961 album by Nat King Cole. The album was a retrospective of Cole's recording career, designed to present many of his earlier hits in new recordings featuring stereo sound. Cole is accompanied on the re-recordings by many of the notable arrangers and bands that had appeared with him on the original records.[2]
Of particular note is Cole's re-recording of "The Christmas Song". This was Cole's fourth, and final, recording of the song, and also the first version recorded in stereo. This recording of the song was subsequently added to a 1963 reissue of Cole's 1960 LP The Magic of Christmas (the album concurrently retitled The Christmas Song and given new cover art), and remains one of Cole's best-known recordings and among the most-played Christmas tunes on radio each December.
This compilation also marks the last time Cole would record with a Trio. In addition to The Christmas Song, referenced above, the album includes Cole's recreations in Stereo of five of his early Trio hits, including "Straighten Up and Fly Right", "Sweet Lorraine", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "Route 66" and "For Sentimental Reasons", in addition to "Orange Colored Sky", a re-recording of a song originally done in 1950 in conjunction with the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
At the 4th Grammy Awards, The Nat King Cole Story was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
^"A Pile o' Cole's Nat King Cole website – The Nat 'King' Cole Story". Apileocole.alongthehall.com. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
^ abAllMusic review
^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 44. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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