Excellent idea to rerecord 36 songs from Nat's wonderful catalog for the triple album THE NAT KING COLE STORY! ★★★★ You surely agree with me, since you're uploading with tender loving care so many of these songs!
@ENACODNOM Of course, the advent of stereophonic recording was the impetus behind these re-recordings. I just wish he had done more during this period when his voice was at its peak.
@Nocaro You're right, but Nat was quite a hard working man and he recorded quite a lot of songs. I'm halfway into 1961 and I already bookmarked 755 of them! When I will finish, I will use the Bear Family and other important compilations to try and put them in the exact recording order, when that will be possible. Nat had a very nice voice until the end, probably because he didn't live long enough to have it completely spoiled, like it happened to Sinatra, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash &
@Nocaro Part II: Connie Francis, to name only a few! They sound ridiculous when they insist on singing while they don't have an acceptable voice anymore! What do you think? You once suggested that you don't like the more modern singers, but surely that doesn't apply to people like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Céline Dion, Huey Lewis, Ronnie McDowell, Billy Joel, to name only some? Greetings from nearby Paris!
Although I was speaking primarily of singers of the past 20 years or so, even the ones you just listed are not in the same league with the Coles, Sinatras, Fitzgeralds, et.al. That's not to say they can't sing, but several of the people you listed are better songwriters than they are vocalists.
@Nocaro Yeah, perhaps, but Neil Diamond sings for exemple with a lot of emotion HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER, which he didn't write. Elton John sounded in the 70s like a pianist who sang, but metamorphosed in the 80s as a singer who played piano. Of course, there are songwriters with ugly voices who can't sing, like Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, etc., and I collect their songs only when they are done by a performer I love or really like.
That monkey at around 00:28 scared the daylights out of me. I was listening to this while in another window and I changed back to look at the video right then and I was like what am I listening to that has scary monkeys like?
@Nocaro, this is a song inspired by a children's story that he heard his father use as a sermon illustration. It's available on Amazon as "The Cool Ride in the Sky" by Diane Wolkstein
I love this song!!!!!!! Me and my granddad are supposed add this to a few oldies we can stumble through, and I'm hopin we give King Cole his just deserts.
@Nocaro Regarding the whole "There is no good modern music thing", you probably just haven't heard it. Judging generations of music by the popular stuff is not accurate, especially with today's music. But hey, maybe you have heard every piece of modern music in existence and have the right to make such a sweeping assumption. Tell you what. Listen to the song "Frank Sinatra" by Cake. If you can't find any redeeming qualities in that, I... I don't know. I guess you only like specific older genres.
@MfEuTrArLy Well, I listened to Cake's "Frank Sinatra" and I find NO REDEEMING QUALITIES in it whatsoever. Just like movies today use special effects to substitute for lack of plot, this song uses modern audio effects to substitute for lack of any melodic line. In addition there is no vocal appeal at all in that recording. And it's not as if I don't like some of today's artists. James Hunter, for one, is terrific! He composes (with distinctive melodic lines) and the man can carry a tune.
@Nocaro Well, I don't really understand what you mean by a lack of melody, as I find that song is full of hummable melodies. To each his own, I guess.
And since people are talking about where they first heard this song, I first heard it in my pop culture class my Senior year in high school, just this last year. And I get what you mean about this music becoming less and less available to today's youth. That class might get cut next year due since schools care more about sports than music. Shame.
@Nocaro From my studies in music anthropology, I find that people need to accept change and judge genres by standards specific to that genre. For example, you might not see the use of different musical mediums as quality or legitimate music, but others who accept the changes that are constantly happening in music will always disagree. I do not think that distinctive melodic lines are a must-have for a "good" song.
@WalkingThroughBirdla Music without melody? Explain to me how that is music rather than just reading a poem out loud? And a monotonous beat is NOT a melody so take it from there.
@Nocaro Zzz dude I cant explain it, music is whatever you want it to be. You dont need anything to be music. Reading a poem can be music dude. But I cant explain this, I once thought like you, don't worry you will get there. Don't take what I'm saying in the wrong way either itsnot personal nor offensive. Just you don't get it.
@WalkingThroughBirdla LOL, since I'm well into my 60's, I don't think "I'm going to get there" as you put it. Following your train of logic you might as well call an elephant a bird since it doesn't really matter what you call anything. To each his own, I suppose.
@Nocaro I must say minimalist music with only a few notes and a very repetitive beat, has been around since the early 20th century. It certainly fits the bill for what you describe as music without a definite melody. Music is not confined by what you find appealing. everything from rap to Opera is music in some form, even drum cadences are music, sans lyrics and melody. The beginnings of western music lay in Gregorian chant, and chant barley has a melody, and no real discernible time signature.
@ganonff Technically you are correct and perhaps my "tastes" which require some sort of discernible melodic line are too stringent to suit many people. Listening to much of the popular music recorded today, I'd say I may be in a minority. But then again, I'd hate to think that simply tapping a pencil on a table in some sort of rhythmic form would become a pop hit tomorrow, but it just might the way things are going.
@Nocaro i can agree. i'm not suggesting that you have to like it, or that it makes sense. I certainly get tired of modern pop music. i just think that musicality can take many forms and sometimes what you don't expect can be pleasant.
@MfEuTrArLy The reason we judge today's music with what was heard in the past is because the past musicians didn't have today's so-called music executives around to tell them what the public would be interested in.There is no originality in today's music everyone sounds too commercialized and no individuality at all.
You know, I'm not a big fan of any popmusicians, and definitely not of robbie williams, but he did an amazing cover of thisnon his swing when you're winning album.
You all have problems! how bout u all shut up. Sit back. relax. and listen to some beautiful and happy music. Instead of sitting there getting all worked up about shit. dont mess the song up wit u'r shitty comments. thank you and enjoy the sounds of Nat King Cole:)
Why are people arguing that people have learned of this song through a video game? Infact, it almost seems as some people are bragging that they heard the song back in Nat's hey day. Ever heard the phrase 'Better late than never'? Just because someone was born in the 20th and 21st centuries doesn't make someone inferior. They can't choose to be born in a particular time era, expecting to bare witness to a great song.
@KennyKawai I think you have missed the point of most of the debate. It wasn't a criticism of the person and how they came to find the song, but of the world in which they live that would so limit the possibilities of hearing a song like this except from a video game.
@Nocaro But that's time for ya. In, say, another fifty years or so, today's music will be just as obscure to the generation living in that era as this is to us. And it's not just limited to video games. People have the internet, where they have found this video, magazines and television. Even parents, I learned of this song when I was about 6 when my mum played it in the car. Sure, it was a cover by Robbie Williams but at least it compelled me to find out who originally sang it.
@Nocaro Honestly I think its pretty cool that video games are using soundtracks that use music like this. Its exposing the younger generation to music they would have never heard without Fallout or Mafia II or what-have-you. Honestly, Fallout is what exposed me to Billie Holiday and The Ink Spots, both of which I love and have shared with friends and girlfriend.
@invalid937 There is nothing wrong with video games using this type of music. It's just a shame though that in this day and time that's where you have to go as a young person to hear it.
@Nocaro I can see where you're point. I'll still accept it in video games as a way to expose younger people to real, good music. Not Lady Gaga and Rebecca Black. Hahaha
@invalid937 A few months back, I ran into a similar comment on The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil being in Call of Duty: Black Ops. An absolutely amazing song. The comment had the exact same sentiment behind it as you're conveying here. Regardless of the medium, people are being reintroduced to music that has truly defined the culture of not only the US, but the entire world. Cheers.
wtf are you talking about? i heard this from robbie williams? and also the world isnt limited to people only hearing songs in video games. anyone in the entire world can look up the word 'Nat' who do think would come up first? and in the world can look up the world 'Jazz' or 'Funk'. your argument is stupid and makes no logical sense?
@TheAussieSwim My point, and only point, is aimed directly at today's RADIO PROGRAMMING in which you will only on rare occasions ever hear music like this. The fact that an entire generation is growing up with little or no access to music by Nat, Sarah, Dinah, Ella, and Frank is a sad state of affairs as far as I'm concerned.
@TheAussieSwim Aussie..who said it "could ONLY be found in a game"? No one said that. What was said was that it's quite odd that you would have to play a "game" to find music like this. Obviously, YouTube is a source, but unless you WANT to hear it and know what you're looking for, you probably will never hear it except by accident (i.e., playing a game).
"but of the world in which they live that would so limit the possibilities of hearing a song like this except from a video game." that was from you. if anything a music in a game is expanding the media in which it can be heard, not limiting it
@TheAussieSwim Aussie...and that's exactly right. This is the "world in which they live" which limits the possibilities of hearing a song like this except in a video game. I'd say that is rather "limiting", but you see it how you like. I'm not "slamming" video games; I'm slamming the other more traditional means of listening to music. I'd hate to think the world is waiting for Nocaro to post it to YouTube to hear it for the first time.
@mickeymou05 Nat's father was a preacher and the song is derived from one of his sermons. Without actually hearing the sermom itself, I'm not certain what the significance of the bird and the primate have, but I would guess it has some Biblical meaning....Lanny (Nocaro)
Thanks for sharing the interesting "story" behind this classic. I'd listened to it for years but then just focused in on the vocals and discovered the absolute genius intricately woven in there.
you have to hear it from something right? Why is it such a blasphemy if it comes from a game? Are you people suggesting that it makes this record worse. Truly, not music lovers in my opinion.
@besie0 The comment wasn't directed at the person who heard it on a game but at the sad state of affairs in which that is one of the only few outlets his generation would EVER HEAR a song like this.
@Nocaro I got it from the Ray Charles film but i dont mind where other people get it from as long as they enjoy the music and have the possibility to listen to it.
@Nocaro Back in that time there were people that called this music diabolic, there will allways be people that hate new music, it's not like satan took over the music. Which old people dare to say every time new music comes out. (Rock & roll was called the devils music too!). You should not hate on things that other people might like. It's ok to not like it but hating on it is something else.
@besie0 I totally disagree with you on this, and I don't think "hate" is the proper word for what I think about it. When an art form has been almost totally destroyed as popular music has been today with the absence of distinctive, original melody (which early rock and roll had by the way), and lyrics that rely on simplistic rhymes and which could have been written by a grammar school student, then I think the proper word is "pity", not "hate".
@besie0 What I'm listening to today is NOT MUSIC. It's mostly a rhythmic beat devoid of anything resembling a distinctive melody with words attached to it. Without MELODY one might as well write a poem. In fact, I can't recall the last time I heard an original, distinctive melody even approaching the quality of that written prior to about 1983...that's almost 30 years of NOTHING...but, as they say, to each his own.
@Nocaro That´s when the synthesizers got in, the roland tb-303 to be exact. I have been playing piano for 8 years and i must say, that programming a synthesizer to the right sound. Is realy realy hard. People constantly say that producing house/hiphop etc. records is realy easy. What you have to understand is that these artist (if real artist, not like the record / lyric stealing gaga for instance) Spend alot of time and effort on their tracks. It´s harder then playing piano, i swear that!
@besie0 The difficulty in producing the sound is irrelevant to my point...the point is MUSIC without melody and a synthesizer no matter how well programmed cannot replace an original and distinctive melody.
@Nocaro If you say the past 30 years music has became so awful that it is not even music anymore, than the total definition of music has changed, and this is only your perspective. But i don't think all modern music is that god-awful, there are some pretty good acoustic hits recently...
@tnpoon Let me ask you this...when was the last time you heard a new, original melody in a song that one could actually hum and you would recognize it as the melody from a particular song. Example: I think one could hum the melody to The Temptations' "My Girl" and most people would recognize it for what it was. That's nearly impossible with most of today's music, and without melody, what do you really have? This is a very subjective topic, of course, but I hope you understand what I'm saying
The year 2011 My boss still remembers this song and as I am typing and listening to this song Straighten Up And Fly Right and he is singing it word for word it just makes me feel good to know that I know someone from that era!!!
@Nocaro "You've had what is called an epiphany." "It's a shame you have to rely on Mafia 2 to find music for you." "You should thank your teacher for showing [you] some real music." "No one comes close to Nat's voice... stop these morbidly moronic comparisons." All on the first page. Went to the Vanguard a few weeks ago and I was the only person under 50. When new listeners are insulted instead of helped, I can understand why.
@royalsapien There was a day and time in which I had an "epiphany". I hardly think I liked music such as this at the age of 12, but when I was 12 at least I had the good fortune to be able to hear a recording like this on the radio or on a record player at home. I suppose I should not sound so condescending and should be happy that a person could find a song like this today in any manner even if it's on the audio to some video game, but forgive me for at least being a bit cynical about it all.
The first time I heard this song, I thought it was a song of protest during the civil rights movement. The "buzzard" was the white man and the "monkey" was black man.
@TheNoobinjaShow No one comes close to Nat's voice! And his piano playing is that of a musical genius. I mean, stop these morbidly moronic comparisons
i remember this song from my 2nd high school concert in 2005 i was in year 8 and the choir sang with me... 1 thing i learnt is that brown is not my color... lol
@Zlanif42 You've had what is called an epiphany (a sudden awareness) of a style of music you may never have really paid attention to before....there's a lot more as good as and even better than this...keep listening...Nocaro
And why is that? Because i discovered a song playing a game? Well sorry for not being born in 1950s in America and knowing the song whole my life. It's because of this song and some others i decided to listen to this genre more often, what's so bad in that?
This is the epitome of cool. I just have to do this with the next jazz group I play with. Woodwinds man but will try to sing this for kicks. Nat is the best.
If the late great Nat King Cole had been any more cool, he'd have been frozen! THANK YOU for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us! :)
amen to that bro i was a tuskegge airman pilot i shore miss this music .i yus to put on my radio when i kiled me over 50 nazi sun of a beatches . haha i miss those days.
My grandpa used to sing this all the time when I was little. Miss you Papa!
thatbloodywanker 3 days ago
Awesome song!!!! :)
Mr2010forgeben 4 days ago
e.e
ShadowGuy453 2 weeks ago
this shit hot
YoungkidGetLite315 1 month ago
this would make such a cool animation =D
hylander888 1 month ago
OMG I love this song!!!!!
Lysapop 1 month ago
Mafia 2!!!!
TMGMACx 2 months ago 6
thumbs up if the first time u heard this was on mafia 2
Bordicci 2 months ago
Excellent idea to rerecord 36 songs from Nat's wonderful catalog for the triple album THE NAT KING COLE STORY! ★★★★ You surely agree with me, since you're uploading with tender loving care so many of these songs!
ENACODNOM 2 months ago
@ENACODNOM Of course, the advent of stereophonic recording was the impetus behind these re-recordings. I just wish he had done more during this period when his voice was at its peak.
Nocaro 2 months ago
@Nocaro You're right, but Nat was quite a hard working man and he recorded quite a lot of songs. I'm halfway into 1961 and I already bookmarked 755 of them! When I will finish, I will use the Bear Family and other important compilations to try and put them in the exact recording order, when that will be possible. Nat had a very nice voice until the end, probably because he didn't live long enough to have it completely spoiled, like it happened to Sinatra, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash &
ENACODNOM 2 months ago
@Nocaro Part II: Connie Francis, to name only a few! They sound ridiculous when they insist on singing while they don't have an acceptable voice anymore! What do you think? You once suggested that you don't like the more modern singers, but surely that doesn't apply to people like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Céline Dion, Huey Lewis, Ronnie McDowell, Billy Joel, to name only some? Greetings from nearby Paris!
ENACODNOM 2 months ago
Although I was speaking primarily of singers of the past 20 years or so, even the ones you just listed are not in the same league with the Coles, Sinatras, Fitzgeralds, et.al. That's not to say they can't sing, but several of the people you listed are better songwriters than they are vocalists.
Nocaro 2 months ago
@Nocaro Yeah, perhaps, but Neil Diamond sings for exemple with a lot of emotion HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER, which he didn't write. Elton John sounded in the 70s like a pianist who sang, but metamorphosed in the 80s as a singer who played piano. Of course, there are songwriters with ugly voices who can't sing, like Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, etc., and I collect their songs only when they are done by a performer I love or really like.
ENACODNOM 2 months ago
Something about Nat King Cole makes me love his music...I normally hate songs in this genre, but his voice is something special.
aoeiifreak 3 months ago
That monkey at around 00:28 scared the daylights out of me. I was listening to this while in another window and I changed back to look at the video right then and I was like what am I listening to that has scary monkeys like?
ilovecornishpixies 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Nat King Cole
MAFIA II!
RickMakesGoodVideos 3 months ago
@Nocaro, this is a song inspired by a children's story that he heard his father use as a sermon illustration. It's available on Amazon as "The Cool Ride in the Sky" by Diane Wolkstein
mtnbeyekr 4 months ago
I would truly love to know what inspired Old King Cole to sing this song... Seriously, what the hell is he talking about?
50emory 4 months ago
I said this to the ball Matt Stafford was throwing for five straight games. Last game I got jumped by cowboys ridin angry bears.
mimc313 4 months ago in playlist mimc313's favorites
Two buzzards listened to this song.
AndrewGilmore1986 4 months ago
@AndrewGilmore1986 hahahaha
dal4018 4 months ago
I live about five miles away from Nat's place of birth.
heymrk 5 months ago
Hey, guys. guess what.
I heard this from Mafya 2.
But now I see what my grandparents mean by 'Music these days', followed by some choice words.
9volt65 5 months ago
im 15 and i love this guy that shows how good he is!
Dudderzzzs 5 months ago
I love this song!!!!!!! Me and my granddad are supposed add this to a few oldies we can stumble through, and I'm hopin we give King Cole his just deserts.
mimc313 6 months ago
One of President Kennedy's FAVORITE Songs and a lot of FUN while teaching something about Life!!!!!
americaneagle2076 6 months ago
Who those idiots bitching up there^ straighten up and fly right.
UrANoobGtfo 6 months ago
@Nocaro Regarding the whole "There is no good modern music thing", you probably just haven't heard it. Judging generations of music by the popular stuff is not accurate, especially with today's music. But hey, maybe you have heard every piece of modern music in existence and have the right to make such a sweeping assumption. Tell you what. Listen to the song "Frank Sinatra" by Cake. If you can't find any redeeming qualities in that, I... I don't know. I guess you only like specific older genres.
MfEuTrArLy 6 months ago 7
@MfEuTrArLy Well, I listened to Cake's "Frank Sinatra" and I find NO REDEEMING QUALITIES in it whatsoever. Just like movies today use special effects to substitute for lack of plot, this song uses modern audio effects to substitute for lack of any melodic line. In addition there is no vocal appeal at all in that recording. And it's not as if I don't like some of today's artists. James Hunter, for one, is terrific! He composes (with distinctive melodic lines) and the man can carry a tune.
Nocaro 6 months ago
@Nocaro Well, I don't really understand what you mean by a lack of melody, as I find that song is full of hummable melodies. To each his own, I guess.
And since people are talking about where they first heard this song, I first heard it in my pop culture class my Senior year in high school, just this last year. And I get what you mean about this music becoming less and less available to today's youth. That class might get cut next year due since schools care more about sports than music. Shame.
MfEuTrArLy 6 months ago
@Nocaro Michael Bublé ain't bad.
Lukergamer 5 months ago
@Nocaro From my studies in music anthropology, I find that people need to accept change and judge genres by standards specific to that genre. For example, you might not see the use of different musical mediums as quality or legitimate music, but others who accept the changes that are constantly happening in music will always disagree. I do not think that distinctive melodic lines are a must-have for a "good" song.
WalkingThroughBirdla 5 months ago
@WalkingThroughBirdla Music without melody? Explain to me how that is music rather than just reading a poem out loud? And a monotonous beat is NOT a melody so take it from there.
Nocaro 5 months ago
@Nocaro Zzz dude I cant explain it, music is whatever you want it to be. You dont need anything to be music. Reading a poem can be music dude. But I cant explain this, I once thought like you, don't worry you will get there. Don't take what I'm saying in the wrong way either itsnot personal nor offensive. Just you don't get it.
WalkingThroughBirdla 5 months ago
@WalkingThroughBirdla LOL, since I'm well into my 60's, I don't think "I'm going to get there" as you put it. Following your train of logic you might as well call an elephant a bird since it doesn't really matter what you call anything. To each his own, I suppose.
Nocaro 5 months ago
@Nocaro I must say minimalist music with only a few notes and a very repetitive beat, has been around since the early 20th century. It certainly fits the bill for what you describe as music without a definite melody. Music is not confined by what you find appealing. everything from rap to Opera is music in some form, even drum cadences are music, sans lyrics and melody. The beginnings of western music lay in Gregorian chant, and chant barley has a melody, and no real discernible time signature.
ganonff 4 months ago
@ganonff Technically you are correct and perhaps my "tastes" which require some sort of discernible melodic line are too stringent to suit many people. Listening to much of the popular music recorded today, I'd say I may be in a minority. But then again, I'd hate to think that simply tapping a pencil on a table in some sort of rhythmic form would become a pop hit tomorrow, but it just might the way things are going.
Nocaro 4 months ago
@Nocaro i can agree. i'm not suggesting that you have to like it, or that it makes sense. I certainly get tired of modern pop music. i just think that musicality can take many forms and sometimes what you don't expect can be pleasant.
ganonff 4 months ago
@MfEuTrArLy I would have used Jolene as an example, but still Frank Sinatra is as good a Cake song as any.
eMoneyACIDPISS 4 months ago
@MfEuTrArLy The reason we judge today's music with what was heard in the past is because the past musicians didn't have today's so-called music executives around to tell them what the public would be interested in.There is no originality in today's music everyone sounds too commercialized and no individuality at all.
dal4018 4 months ago
Totally sublime.
lmatherly6 7 months ago
You know, I'm not a big fan of any popmusicians, and definitely not of robbie williams, but he did an amazing cover of thisnon his swing when you're winning album.
GydoKamst 7 months ago
This music is sublime.
carolharveysf 7 months ago
sublime
carolharveysf 7 months ago
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Sublime!
carolharveysf 7 months ago
Sublime!
carolharveysf 7 months ago
Sublime!
carolharveysf 7 months ago
I think this was the favourite song of black pilots in US AF in WW2. Thats what I readed somewhere
Grinch1800 7 months ago
You all have problems! how bout u all shut up. Sit back. relax. and listen to some beautiful and happy music. Instead of sitting there getting all worked up about shit. dont mess the song up wit u'r shitty comments. thank you and enjoy the sounds of Nat King Cole:)
TheDONDPG 7 months ago
STRAIGHTEN AND FLY RIGHT
Zestava 7 months ago
heard of this from The Right Stuff, brilliant movie
Tangerinian 7 months ago
This is my favorite song by Nat King Cole! What a classic!
johnmillercpainc 7 months ago
I remember singing this song in music class in Elementary school. Lol
igrungeisded 7 months ago
this comes on the radio on mafia 2 way to much though lol
nikondurr3000 8 months ago
Why are people arguing that people have learned of this song through a video game? Infact, it almost seems as some people are bragging that they heard the song back in Nat's hey day. Ever heard the phrase 'Better late than never'? Just because someone was born in the 20th and 21st centuries doesn't make someone inferior. They can't choose to be born in a particular time era, expecting to bare witness to a great song.
KennyKawai 9 months ago 4
@KennyKawai I think you have missed the point of most of the debate. It wasn't a criticism of the person and how they came to find the song, but of the world in which they live that would so limit the possibilities of hearing a song like this except from a video game.
Nocaro 9 months ago
@Nocaro But that's time for ya. In, say, another fifty years or so, today's music will be just as obscure to the generation living in that era as this is to us. And it's not just limited to video games. People have the internet, where they have found this video, magazines and television. Even parents, I learned of this song when I was about 6 when my mum played it in the car. Sure, it was a cover by Robbie Williams but at least it compelled me to find out who originally sang it.
KennyKawai 9 months ago
@Nocaro Honestly I think its pretty cool that video games are using soundtracks that use music like this. Its exposing the younger generation to music they would have never heard without Fallout or Mafia II or what-have-you. Honestly, Fallout is what exposed me to Billie Holiday and The Ink Spots, both of which I love and have shared with friends and girlfriend.
invalid937 7 months ago
@invalid937 There is nothing wrong with video games using this type of music. It's just a shame though that in this day and time that's where you have to go as a young person to hear it.
Nocaro 7 months ago
@Nocaro I can see where you're point. I'll still accept it in video games as a way to expose younger people to real, good music. Not Lady Gaga and Rebecca Black. Hahaha
invalid937 7 months ago
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TheAussieSwim 7 months ago
@invalid937 A few months back, I ran into a similar comment on The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil being in Call of Duty: Black Ops. An absolutely amazing song. The comment had the exact same sentiment behind it as you're conveying here. Regardless of the medium, people are being reintroduced to music that has truly defined the culture of not only the US, but the entire world. Cheers.
heymrk 5 months ago
@Nocaro
wtf are you talking about? i heard this from robbie williams? and also the world isnt limited to people only hearing songs in video games. anyone in the entire world can look up the word 'Nat' who do think would come up first? and in the world can look up the world 'Jazz' or 'Funk'. your argument is stupid and makes no logical sense?
TheAussieSwim 7 months ago
@TheAussieSwim My point, and only point, is aimed directly at today's RADIO PROGRAMMING in which you will only on rare occasions ever hear music like this. The fact that an entire generation is growing up with little or no access to music by Nat, Sarah, Dinah, Ella, and Frank is a sad state of affairs as far as I'm concerned.
Nocaro 7 months ago
@TheAussieSwim Aussie..who said it "could ONLY be found in a game"? No one said that. What was said was that it's quite odd that you would have to play a "game" to find music like this. Obviously, YouTube is a source, but unless you WANT to hear it and know what you're looking for, you probably will never hear it except by accident (i.e., playing a game).
Nocaro 7 months ago
@Nocaro
"but of the world in which they live that would so limit the possibilities of hearing a song like this except from a video game." that was from you. if anything a music in a game is expanding the media in which it can be heard, not limiting it
TheAussieSwim 7 months ago
@TheAussieSwim Aussie...and that's exactly right. This is the "world in which they live" which limits the possibilities of hearing a song like this except in a video game. I'd say that is rather "limiting", but you see it how you like. I'm not "slamming" video games; I'm slamming the other more traditional means of listening to music. I'd hate to think the world is waiting for Nocaro to post it to YouTube to hear it for the first time.
Nocaro 7 months ago
@KennyKawai
Te game Mafia 2 dude. That's where it came from.
Rudyro251 7 months ago
It 's à story Black sla Es' uwer to tell each otter
Sxlovefashion 10 months ago
What's the meaing to be understood in this song?
It's catchy and it's grown on me - despite only hearing twice, but what's the significance of the bird and the primate?
mickeymou05 10 months ago
@mickeymou05 Nat's father was a preacher and the song is derived from one of his sermons. Without actually hearing the sermom itself, I'm not certain what the significance of the bird and the primate have, but I would guess it has some Biblical meaning....Lanny (Nocaro)
Nocaro 10 months ago
Thanks for sharing the interesting "story" behind this classic. I'd listened to it for years but then just focused in on the vocals and discovered the absolute genius intricately woven in there.
fourstringmania 10 months ago
Wait, on Mafia a lady is singing......that's my favorite version.
09Dyl 10 months ago
@09Dyl
version by "The Andrews Sisters"
goaram 10 months ago
@goaram i saw it but thank you!
09Dyl 10 months ago
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KelwinDicks666 10 months ago
2 people are nazis....
littledutchboy1996 10 months ago
me too lol now i know what the name of this song is my grandma used to sing this song
fiji555 11 months ago
my teacher made us listen to this in class today from a book called the watsons go to birmingham
souleaterfan12 11 months ago
Absolutely beautiful....superb precision musicianship made to sound easy...the best verison of all
SimonNoina 11 months ago
you have to hear it from something right? Why is it such a blasphemy if it comes from a game? Are you people suggesting that it makes this record worse. Truly, not music lovers in my opinion.
besie0 11 months ago
@besie0 The comment wasn't directed at the person who heard it on a game but at the sad state of affairs in which that is one of the only few outlets his generation would EVER HEAR a song like this.
Nocaro 11 months ago
@Nocaro I got it from the Ray Charles film but i dont mind where other people get it from as long as they enjoy the music and have the possibility to listen to it.
besie0 11 months ago
@besie0 My point was directed specifically at commercial radio programming, MTV, and the state of music today.
Nocaro 11 months ago
@Nocaro Back in that time there were people that called this music diabolic, there will allways be people that hate new music, it's not like satan took over the music. Which old people dare to say every time new music comes out. (Rock & roll was called the devils music too!). You should not hate on things that other people might like. It's ok to not like it but hating on it is something else.
besie0 11 months ago
@besie0 I totally disagree with you on this, and I don't think "hate" is the proper word for what I think about it. When an art form has been almost totally destroyed as popular music has been today with the absence of distinctive, original melody (which early rock and roll had by the way), and lyrics that rely on simplistic rhymes and which could have been written by a grammar school student, then I think the proper word is "pity", not "hate".
Nocaro 11 months ago
@Nocaro Music changes, it has allways changed and there will allways be haters when there is something new. Or people who have pity.
besie0 11 months ago
@besie0 What I'm listening to today is NOT MUSIC. It's mostly a rhythmic beat devoid of anything resembling a distinctive melody with words attached to it. Without MELODY one might as well write a poem. In fact, I can't recall the last time I heard an original, distinctive melody even approaching the quality of that written prior to about 1983...that's almost 30 years of NOTHING...but, as they say, to each his own.
Nocaro 11 months ago
@Nocaro That´s when the synthesizers got in, the roland tb-303 to be exact. I have been playing piano for 8 years and i must say, that programming a synthesizer to the right sound. Is realy realy hard. People constantly say that producing house/hiphop etc. records is realy easy. What you have to understand is that these artist (if real artist, not like the record / lyric stealing gaga for instance) Spend alot of time and effort on their tracks. It´s harder then playing piano, i swear that!
besie0 11 months ago
@besie0 The difficulty in producing the sound is irrelevant to my point...the point is MUSIC without melody and a synthesizer no matter how well programmed cannot replace an original and distinctive melody.
Nocaro 11 months ago
@Nocaro If you say the past 30 years music has became so awful that it is not even music anymore, than the total definition of music has changed, and this is only your perspective. But i don't think all modern music is that god-awful, there are some pretty good acoustic hits recently...
tnpoon 11 months ago
@tnpoon Let me ask you this...when was the last time you heard a new, original melody in a song that one could actually hum and you would recognize it as the melody from a particular song. Example: I think one could hum the melody to The Temptations' "My Girl" and most people would recognize it for what it was. That's nearly impossible with most of today's music, and without melody, what do you really have? This is a very subjective topic, of course, but I hope you understand what I'm saying
Nocaro 11 months ago 7
@Nocaro the last time i heard a new original melody? john frusciante's last album.
crazygeek777 3 months ago
@crazygeek777 Would you call it "distinctive" to the point of being also "popularly" known or just something you heard you liked?
Nocaro 3 months ago
@Nocaro it's distinctive as in unique, all of his albums are experimental, and complete gold...
crazygeek777 3 months ago
Thumbs if YOUR music teacher sent you to this song :]
Sammyv12345 1 year ago
this song it good i like it when it says your story so touching but it sounds just like a lie
dontaewalton 1 year ago 2
Great song. First became aware of this song thanks to Diane Wolkstein's children's book The Cool Ride in the Sky.
salvinian 1 year ago
Frank Sinatra - Died because of heart, kidney, bladder failure
Nat "king" cole - Died of Lung cancer (smoking 3 packs a day helped him perform)
Dean Martin - Lung Cancer (smoked a lot)
Nat king wasn't even 50. died 45
lawyerification 1 year ago
@lawyerification i thought dean martin died in a plane crash?
xXTheMysteryGamerXx 1 year ago
@xXTheMysteryGamerXx No, That was his son.
lawyerification 1 year ago
@lawyerification oh
xXTheMysteryGamerXx 1 year ago
they had this song in the Tuskgeegee Airmen movie.
shinegrove 1 year ago
I like the Andrews Sisters version more.
THEBIRDMAN9412 1 year ago
The year 2011 My boss still remembers this song and as I am typing and listening to this song Straighten Up And Fly Right and he is singing it word for word it just makes me feel good to know that I know someone from that era!!!
mscookie44 1 year ago
I love how people who express joy at finding this song are immediately condescended to. Super rad.
royalsapien 1 year ago 10
@royalsapien Are you referring to "Mafia 2 discovering this song" or some other comment?
Nocaro 1 year ago 2
@Nocaro "You've had what is called an epiphany." "It's a shame you have to rely on Mafia 2 to find music for you." "You should thank your teacher for showing [you] some real music." "No one comes close to Nat's voice... stop these morbidly moronic comparisons." All on the first page. Went to the Vanguard a few weeks ago and I was the only person under 50. When new listeners are insulted instead of helped, I can understand why.
royalsapien 1 year ago 11
@royalsapien There was a day and time in which I had an "epiphany". I hardly think I liked music such as this at the age of 12, but when I was 12 at least I had the good fortune to be able to hear a recording like this on the radio or on a record player at home. I suppose I should not sound so condescending and should be happy that a person could find a song like this today in any manner even if it's on the audio to some video game, but forgive me for at least being a bit cynical about it all.
Nocaro 1 year ago
No one can touch Nat Cole's time - in his singing or his piano playing. He swings so beautifully.
brewepau 1 year ago
@brewepau
wat year was this and is he still alive?
:)
bellababes1 1 year ago
The first time I heard this song, I thought it was a song of protest during the civil rights movement. The "buzzard" was the white man and the "monkey" was black man.
Seattlecarnut 1 year ago
Maifa 2!
SouthWoodProductions 1 year ago
@jaketheinsanerapper Jake you should thank your teacher for showing some real music
dal4018 1 year ago
MAFIA II
NutsandGuts 1 year ago
Decent but Ray Charles is way f##king better
TheNoobinjaShow 1 year ago
@TheNoobinjaShow No one comes close to Nat's voice! And his piano playing is that of a musical genius. I mean, stop these morbidly moronic comparisons
5507156693 1 year ago
this was one of my dad's favorite songs.
mattratt512 1 year ago
My mom used to sing this to me at night when i couldn't sleep. So whenever I'm having trouble sleeping, I think of this verse. :)
froufrougirl15 1 year ago
i remember this song from my 2nd high school concert in 2005 i was in year 8 and the school choir sang with me...
shazdingle 1 year ago
i remember this song from my 2nd high school concert in 2005 i was in year 8 and the choir sang with me... 1 thing i learnt is that brown is not my color... lol
shazdingle 1 year ago
@Zlanif42 Why can't you believe you enjoy this it beats anything you hear today.
dal4018 1 year ago
I looove this music!!!!!!!!!
Bobby5368 1 year ago
23 skidoo daddy-o
muckstar23 1 year ago
I have to say, I prefer the Mono '43 version of the song. It was more peppy!
austenbosten 1 year ago
@austenbosten Could you find it please I want to hear it.
dal4018 1 year ago
"Straighten Up and Fly Right"
Thats what i said to myselft when i lost control of my rc plane for a few seconds :)
julienjjj 1 year ago
WOW, kootos to mafia 2 for rediscovering jazz, blues and soul for all of the youngins
listentodylan 1 year ago 2
You can be 30, 60 or even 90 and these classics still sound good
RockabillyAnt 1 year ago 2
I wouldn't have ever known about this if it wasn't for mafia II and the andrews sisters.
DannyEddy357 1 year ago
A great song. The first time a came across that song was in Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff.
1poiuztrewq2 1 year ago
Mafia 2 (Y)
oOonerandomduckOo 1 year ago
Thumbs up if your watching this cuz of mafia 2
KNDRULES01 1 year ago 7
@Zlanif42 You've had what is called an epiphany (a sudden awareness) of a style of music you may never have really paid attention to before....there's a lot more as good as and even better than this...keep listening...Nocaro
Nocaro 1 year ago 9
thank you Mafia 2 for discovering this song.
goaram 1 year ago 48
@goaram LOL, it's a shame you have to rely on Mafia 2 to find music for you. This is only one of Nat's most famous songs!
Nocaro 1 year ago 6
@Nocaro
yea, shame on me. Although i'm not from USA and don't listen to jazz/swing.
So that's my best excuse:)
goaram 1 year ago
@Nocaro This made Mafia 2 for me, even though I knew it before ;)
JagoReedJones 1 year ago
@goaram lol same thats how i found it
zalron69 1 year ago
@goaram uggghh. hate people like this.
numkelfut 10 months ago
@numkelfut
And why is that? Because i discovered a song playing a game? Well sorry for not being born in 1950s in America and knowing the song whole my life. It's because of this song and some others i decided to listen to this genre more often, what's so bad in that?
goaram 10 months ago
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hellobooom 1 year ago
everyone knows this song, this is in my opinion, one of the greatest songs of all time !!
RooSimo 1 year ago
if you looked for this song because of mafia 2 thumbs up please!
warspitejr 1 year ago 9
@warspitejr true true lol
Any idea what the song on the pause menu is? The very slow piano piece? I'm thinking maybe it was made for the game.
v4ri4bl3 1 year ago
@bentleyizbeast it was the andrews sisters version
M0stBlunt3d 1 year ago
:( donde esta mis disco de Exitos de Nat King Cole?
incridiblemontano 1 year ago
why do most people who like classic music hate modern vice versa
ApolloAlive 1 year ago
Feel like there no good songs anymore? Go back to your basics!! THAT'S MUSIC!!
milusine 1 year ago
i miss this..my papa use to jam this (TAPE) lol hahaha all the time
killakel09 1 year ago
Love this song its so....happy, got that happiness about.
bigbandswinger 1 year ago
"Your story's so touching, but it sounds just like a lie"...I've used this line on so many people..
plasmatv 1 year ago 4
@plasmatv haha so have I XD But no one but me ever gets it lol
LingLeeProductions 1 year ago
@plasmatv U work for an insurance company or what? LoL
bioken007 1 year ago
HB, I hope you have a wonderful quick and safe trip!!! Can't wait to see you! I love you!!!
SK
goatmom1 1 year ago
We had to sing this song for chorus
Walmart789456 1 year ago
Straight from the supernal heavens - Cole was here to do a job and that he did. Same with Pops (Satchmo) and so forth. Showtime Johnny Pal, Bluesman
SHOWTIMEJOHNNYPALBLU 1 year ago
I remember listening to this when I was about 7yrs. old this is still in our record collection on 78 rpm.
enwitmol 1 year ago
A buzzard took monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said-- Now listen, Jack
Straighten up and fly right (3)
NajafMuhammed 1 year ago
please stop talking about little wayne! This is Nat King Cole maa faaaas
GeeMuzic 1 year ago
This is the epitome of cool. I just have to do this with the next jazz group I play with. Woodwinds man but will try to sing this for kicks. Nat is the best.
trydreamin 1 year ago
If the late great Nat King Cole had been any more cool, he'd have been frozen! THANK YOU for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us! :)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
Very pleasant stereo sounding listening it through a headset!
likemyviolin 2 years ago
Great song! :o) Everytime I listen to it makes my day much better.... ;o)
Valin1288 2 years ago
really good song
Andro9887 2 years ago
AHH MUSIC CAN SOOTHE THE SAVAGE BEAST
luvumo2day 2 years ago
.... wonderful ...
(p.c.why in every video i visit i read comments about lil wayne? people have gone crazy .......)
moderator67 2 years ago
For my african american project i chose ''NAT KING COLE'' and i found this AWESOME song
MasterDCP117 2 years ago
amen to that bro i was a tuskegge airman pilot i shore miss this music .i yus to put on my radio when i kiled me over 50 nazi sun of a beatches . haha i miss those days.
prosenko 2 years ago