Mona Lisa Song by Nat King Cole

Nat King Coles song; Mona Lisa is an Academy Award-winning song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950).


The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent 8 weeks as number 1 in the Billboard chart in the USA in 1950.


Also, Cole's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1987, it was used as the theme of the British film Mona Lisa. An unaccredited version of Mona Lisa plays in the background of one scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).

The famous painting: Mona Lisa (also known as La Giaconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci throughout the Italian Renaissance.

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Music

Tags:

• pop
• Mona
• Lisa
• Nat
• King
• Cole

[AlexCooper33400]

Such a poetic song. Just wonderful, beyond words.......

[Trueblood030]

Goes to show that good articulation and vocabulary can overcome even racial barriers, even 40 years ago. Maybe "the hood" aint down with it but this is one of the greatest artists of all time.

Such a waste of those who keep trying to see a difference between all the people.

[DrApeJohnsonDDS]

@hattonhall tells you*

[DrApeJohnsonDDS]

@hattonhall AGAIN.IGNORANT.PROFANITY.DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING THE MEDIA TELL YOU .youre a puppet.search brother ali writers block.

[hattonhall]

Suggest u read all the posts proving that the REAL MUSIC AND REAL SINGING of Nat King Cole brought them to tears,touched their hearts and very depths of their souls over a lifetime.

It will only be when you can humble yourself to think at that level that you will understand the position of others on that.

"That Hip Hop Rap song full of profanity brought me to tears and touched my very heart and soul" ?

I have yet to hear that from anyone.

[hattonhall]

Wish I had been there. Saw him in Sydney 20years ago. A knockout!

[hattonhall]

I did not say it was "Better" only that it was genuinely MUSIC and SINGING. Rap is not and is MOSTLY spoken and often profane. The older generation regularly tell me that disgusts them about Rap.

The term "RapKrapp" is not of my making. I heard it from a group of retirees while discussing modern day music in general.

Don't make the big mistake of ASSUMING that you know how others come to choose their positions on anything.

ME deriding others? Read your OWN WORDS Dr.APE!

[DrApeJohnsonDDS]

@hattonhall i love how your trying to make a valid point to show your superiority in taste etc etc ..yet'you statement is over ridden with ignorance and hypocracy...of course people wouldnt want to hear rap .the generations now.it wasnt theres and to jumble a whole genre together is just plain ignorant.theres tons of garbage rap;but there plenty of amazing hip hop and before u spit the cliche that its all degrading women and blin bling..i despise commercial rap.open your mind to all music. peace

[sneeze76]

I saw the original it's classic!!!

[StripeRich]

My brother got me a 78 of this off ebay. He wouldn't say how much it was, but I cherish it; almost as much as the memory of a balmy summer evening concert by Nat and getting to meet him afterward. (Long ago, celebrities did that sort of thing,,,,,gentlemen and ladies).

[stuarth43]

I watched this for a woman I care for deeply and she looks like Her , the Mona lisa, I really must visit the painting

[stuarth43]

ciao belle