Nat King Cole - Just One of Those Things (Bonus Track Version) (1957/2019)
Artist: Nat King Cole
Title: Just One of Those Things (Bonus Track Version)
Year Of Release: 1957/2019
Label: New Jazz Society
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:08
Total Size: 174 mb | 414 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Just One of Those Things (Bonus Track Version)
Year Of Release: 1957/2019
Label: New Jazz Society
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:08
Total Size: 174 mb | 414 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Nat King Cole - When Your Lover Has Gone
02. Nat King Cole - A Cottage for Sale
03. Nat King Cole - Who's Sorry Now
04. Nat King Cole - Once in a While
05. Nat King Cole - These Foolish Things
06. Nat King Cole - Just for the Fun of It
07. Nat King Cole - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
08. Nat King Cole - I Understand
09. Nat King Cole - Just One of Those Things
10. Nat King Cole - The Song Is Ended
11. Nat King Cole - I Should Care
12. Nat King Cole - The Party's Over
13. Nat King Cole - Tangerine (Bonus Track)
14. Nat King Cole - St. Louis Blues (Bonus Track)
15. Nat King Cole - Angel Eyes (Bonus Track)
16. Nat King Cole - Lover, Come Back to Me (Bonus Track)
17. Nat King Cole - Can't I (Bonus Track)
18. Nat King Cole - Teach Me Tonight (Bonus Track)
19. Nat King Cole - Walking' My Baby Back Home (Bonus Track)
20. Nat King Cole - What Does It Take (Bonus Track)
21. Nat King Cole - Walkin' (Bonus Track)
22. Nat King Cole - I'm Hurtin' (Bonus Track)
23. Nat King Cole - Papa Loves Mambo (1)
24. Nat King Cole - Papa Loves Mambo (Bonus Track)
25. Nat King Cole - It's Only a Paper Moon (Bonus Track)
26. Nat King Cole - I'd Rather Have the Blues (Bonus Track)
27. Nat King Cole - Never Let Me Go (Bonus Track)
Just One of Those Things is a theme album comparable to one of Frank Sinatra's uptempo swing albums of the same period (Come Fly with Me, etc.), and employs the same arranger/conductor, Billy May. Nat King Cole is a bit less effective than Sinatra at uptempo material; he tends to undersing these sprightly standards, and May saves his dramatic horn charts and percussion shots for moments when Cole is away from the microphone. Even so, by the fifth track, "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You," May has retreated to ballad time, and though his embellishments threaten to break out behind the singer, Cole gives an assured, unhurried performance. And that's the point: that Cole has tamed the rambunctious May does not mean he doesn't give wonderful interpretations to some wonderful songs: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Just One of Those Things," "The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)." And the light-handed swing supports those efforts well.
