Nat King Cole - Nature Boy (Stereo Version)

[randwolfray]

I've listened to lots of other artists covering this song, and while they are all very good, to my taste nobody does it better than Nat King Cole. I've heard his earlier piano, guitar, and bass version, and again while it is very, very good, I think his interpretation became even better here. Also, the orchestration doesn't distract for me, it helps to create the scenes of the mind. Simply wonderful.

[mrmjb1960]

This was on the "Nature Boy,AKA A Blossom Fell (Reissue)" Lp,issued first in 1961,reissued in 1969,minus two tracks,and paired with "Walkin' My Baby Back Home,AKA Cole's Top Pops" Also missing two tracks,as a "Twofer".Lp set.

[allenlewis]

Nat should have stayed the cool jazz cat he was, it was sad the day when he left jazz...

[rogerlesliecook]

The two versions of Nature Boy by Nat King Cole that I have seen are both good - just different. I have found this song hypnotic but the original clip of him playing piano with the trio is captivating.

[tonynstar]

Enchanting. This version is my fav

[MsTdt4321]

My twin daughters, when they were little girls, would ask me to sing this song to them before they turned off their lights to go to sleep. I must have sung this song 200 times. Parental alienation and a biased court system took them from me. This song breaks my heart every time I hear it.

[wario22]

I prefer the original =/

[Nocaro]

@wario22 Hmmm...interesting...you're the first person I've encountered that does. I may post the original soon as well. Thanks, for the note.

[wario22]

@Nocaro I just think this version sounds like a Disney movie or something, much prefer the intimacy of just a piano and a guitar.

[dolleedagger]

Played for my Father at his funeral. The truest thing to be said about him.

[SnuffGunnion]

The music is slamming. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I personally like this orchestral approach, full of emotion and a touch of sadness. If you like "Mona Lisa" then this piece is right in the same ball park.

[Inglooooooom]

это более чем восхитительно.Вечная вещь

[darkwattie227]

this song describes 2 people...me and robert e howard......robert was an insperation to writers everywhere but was a very sad man.....nobody would publish his books....he hot himslef when his mom died...i have no claim to fame.....im just a boy.....a very strange enchanted boy.....to make sense of it all i wanted to become a writer.......but ide just go through the same things the media put howard through........howard birthed conan in his death.....but my words of wisdom will be lost....forever

[PaulGreen11]

When I was a kid, the jazz my father would play... this is one of the songs that took me away and floated me right out of the room. I couldnt have been more than 10. He must have seen me more than once listening to pieces like this, my eyes open and glazed over stairing at the celling, gone.

[justdadance]

I've loved this song since I first heard it. I sing it often to my husband

[NouvoRich]

I think this is one of the greatest songs ever and I first discovered in "Moulin Rouge" the movie and was even more surprised when Chris Whitley recorded it a cappella just before he passed away...

[everhard1000]

great !!! TNX !!!

[fr1daysch1ld]

Thank you, simply beautiful

[NashyNova]

Thanks for uploaded this song!! loves it!

[havercake]

Wonderful song and singing but it is far too heavily orchestrated there is a version by NKC accompanying himself on the piano...

[Nocaro]

@havercake Nat recorded "Nature Boy" at least 3 times, this being the last. Nat was still playing piano on all his recordings as the leader of the Nat King Cole Trio when the song was first shown to him.

[havercake]

@Nocaro Thanks: would you agree about the orchestration, it hijacks the singer and song; today it sound vulgar and too intrusive.

[Nocaro]

@havercake Of course, by the time Nat recorded "Nature Boy" this one last time, most of his recordings were heavily orchestrated so there's little surprise here. The problem lies with Nat's vocal on the earlier recordings which are not in the same league with how he had developed to this point. I have Nat's earlier recordings of this and probably should post them for comparison purposes if for no other reason.

[havercake]

@Nocaro Thanks for what you have written (didnt mean to include similar replies, thought I lost the first reply!). A final request, do you know who did the arrangement?

[Nocaro]

@havercake This arrangement was done by either Gordon Jenkins or Ralph Carmichael., and I suspect the latter since he seems to be the "lusher".

[SANNAFABICH]

@havercake I still like it. Just different, nothing wrong with the orchestration on my end.

[havercake]

@Nocaro Thanks. Would you agree that the orchestration is far too intrusive, may be to show off stereo. Today it sounds far too heavy-handed and distracts from the beauty of the song and singer

[GoodVibesOfficial]

♪♫♥ !

[MungoArawn]

Thank's for the music/history lessen, really amazing to read all that!

[TehJew22]

*sings* The Greatest Thing, You'll ever Learn. Is Just to "Love and be Loved in Return". (-.-)

[3martijns]

Beautiful song, with interesting origin.