Nat King Cole & Ida JAMES " Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby " !!!

[AmbiguityofExistence]

Was this before his voice got really sexy-deep?

[tingling32]

Timeless tune but Oh dear! the whole piece is out of sync and couldnt stand it.

[SimfonijskiOtpadak]

Who's swinging that guitar??

[SimfonijskiOtpadak]

Oscar Moore

[501andStreetz]

She does not look the way she sounds lmao

[fredury]

this is not Nat's voice

[vintage1351]

Ida James is so sweet i got diabetes just from lookin' at her...

and then she started singing.

[tommiexander]

@MrJulesNapier

I don't think that it was the makeup that made him look older in films because in the book that I read about him, he was always told as a young teenager that he looked older than he was. And that was before he became famous.

[KPP9457]

i don't know if it was my computer or if it was the video, but the sounds wasn't quite on the same track as the picture..... drove me crazy the whole time! but this song is a timeless classic and i love it so much! :)

[yousony]

I was so surprised when I heard her voice :O amazing !!

[GogolBordelloLover]

how old is he here? he looks very young.

[tommiexander]

@GogolBordelloLover

It said that this was in 1948, so Nat King Cole was 29. But to me he always looked older than he was. All through his life people thought he was older than he was. Not only just because he looked older, but also the way he carried himself. He was an old soul in a young body.

[socdk]

You should have seperated the audio and reattached it to the video about a second earlier.

Love this though.

[bliss2386]

Ida James kinda looks like Lark Voorhies, the black girl from Saved by the Bell.

[MusicandDancing4Ever]

I wonder what became of her? Is she still with us or dead? In the 40's, she was very popular. She had such a sweet, beautiful doll face and a voice like an angel. She had great delivery, charism, and charm. She should have been as famous as Lena Horne, but because of the time, there were limits on how many black women could become big. There's many articles on her from the black newspapers of the time. The last thing written on her was in Jet in 59, that said she was working as a barmaid.

[MTVVH1sucks]

mmmmmm....

[MICKEYSMONKEY]

smooth ...classy...dude..........love that brotha.

[madameweasel]

I have this on 16mm film, nice condition too. Gives me heart palpitations every time I watch it. I was wondering who this lovely lady was as Ive never heard this version anywhere else. Thank-you so much for posting it!!

[childOfGod041]

I will always love Nat king cole and Ida james. Her smile is as sweet as he voice!

Inmortal.

[likemyviolin]

Very nice! :)

[babarshaikhx]

only 216 views. weird!!

[GodotheInfantry]

Yeah, people are idiots. Check the number of views Lady Gaga has...cretins.