The Nat King Cole Story

Studio album by Nat King Cole

Released

1961

Recorded

(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

Genre

Traditional pop music, 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)

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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

(original recordings) - January 30, May 6, September 30, 1958, April 1959, March 1, 1960

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.

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.

At the 4th Grammy Awards, The Nat King Cole Story was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Disc 1

Disc 2

In 2011, the Analogue Productions label reissued the album as a 2-disc hybrid SACD set and a 5-disc 45 rpm vinyl set. Both versions feature a new stereo mix of the entire album by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, while the SACD also includes a discrete three-channel mix of most songs. Two bonus tracks ("Ramblin' Rose" and "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer") are also included on both versions.

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