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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[justalittlesideways]

My father named me after this song.....

[Patricia Rodriguez]

another one of my favorite songs; thank you to whoever uploaded it

[TheYTBlogger]

Mona Lisa 

[tripwires2]

leave room for me

[Joevin Lefranc]

je la connais depuis mon adolescence, mais elle n'a pas pris une ride.Quelle beauté...

[Aly Hallak]

This is my great grandparents' "song" and it took forever to find for my grandma to hear again, I thought she was going to cry :) Thanks to the post-er of the video:)

[zorgen123]

Nat King Cole and Karen Carpenter are two artists which I believe had truly natural voices crafted for singing. They are two lost gems of the last century which will be remembered and appreciated for all eternity.

[77pfrag]

Nat KING Cole = great voice & great musician.

Thank U so much++

[Chris Beattie]

Maybe play it for him/her too if it is one of their favourite songs they will enjoy it.

[Portabledexter]

Possibly the best singer the world has ever known!

[NYC420OZONE]

Irony Jack...: ( 

[MindProbe1100]

What a brilliant song