Nat King Cole

Product Description:

This 4-CD box set contains 100 tracks, including hits, previously unreleased songs and rare songs. It comes with a 60-page book that has extensive liner notes by Leonard Feather, Will Friedwald, Pete Welding and Carole Cole, as well as complete track annotations, personnel listings and many rare photographs.

Producers include: Johnny Mercer, Paul Weston, Carl Kress, Dave Dexter, Dave Cavanaugh.

Compilation producer: Pete Welding.

Recorded between 1943 & 1964. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald.

This well-assembled four-CD box set covers most of Nat "King" Cole's career, containing a wealth of vintage hits and lesser-known material, as well as previously unreleased recordings. There's "It's Only a Paper Moon" from his early 1940s jazz trio days, his first number one hit "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons," the sophisticated, early-'60s "Ramblin' Rose," and "Perfidia," one of his many 1950s Latin recordings. Rarely heard tracks include songs cut with the Stan Kenton Band like "Orange Colored Sky," and live early-'60s performances from the Sands (the Las Vegas headquarters of the Rat Pack), featuring the playful piano solo of "Where Or When," and the artist's sniffy take on the then-new rock & roll craze, "Mr. Cole Won't Rock & Roll."