Uploaded by Nocaro on Jun 3, 2011
Nat was the first black man to host a nationally televised variety show and he was in his second season in 1957 when he started having trouble landing sponsors to continue this critically praised program. Soon thereafter he gave up trying and he made a profound statement about this situation, "I guess Madison Ave. is afraid of the dark". Nonetheless, his program helped propel Nat back onto the charts with songs like "Send For Me" with Billy May arranging and conducting which peaked at #7 during the summer of '57. And although he would later sing a song called "Mr. Cole Won't Rock and Roll" (see my post of this on YouTube), Nat did sometimes obviously try.
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I've got two words for you . . . MAG NIFICENT ! ! !
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@Nocaro Thank you for responding to my questions because most of the time people do not help.
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@Nocaro I collected that song two years ago: it's an entertaining live recording and it's very long, over 8 minutes if my memory is correct. 1957 was the year Nat came the closest to Rock & Roll. Cole had an advantage on others not being under the leadership of a big band leader because he could be creative right from the beginning. Singers like Frank Sinatra and Doris Day were like doing office work when they began! I like them better when they started on their own.
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Very cool.:)
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If I am not mistaken, this is early R&B. Right? And. Is it also one of the songs that influenced modern R&B?
celestialpathway 3 months ago
@celestialpathway Actually, this song was recorded a pretty good while after R&B was already established. Nat rarely recorded music like this and he even made a recording once entitled "Mr. Cole Won't Rock & Roll" so proud he was that he was of "another generation" of musicians.
Nocaro 3 months ago
See? He lied when he said he wouldn't rock!
ENACODNOM 3 months ago
@ENACODNOM LOL, I thought the same thing when I heard this for the first time many years ago. For those who don't know what we're talking about, Nat recorded a song called "Mr. Cole Won't Rock & Roll" after he had already recorded a few tunes like this which do "rock" to some degree. Of course, with falling record sales for most of the vocal artists of the big band days like Nat, it's understandable why he resented the appeal of what was the "new" music back then.
Nocaro 3 months ago