Nat King Cole - Cole Español - 31 Greatest Hits (2017)

Tracklist

01. Perfidia
02. Aquellos Ojos Verdes
03. Quizás, Quizás, Quizás [Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps]
04. Solamente Una Vez [You Belong To My Heart]
05. Ansiedad
06. Yo Vendo Unos Ojos Negros
07. Piel Canela
08. Noche De Ronda
09. Capullito De Alelí
10. María Elena
11. Las Mañanitas
12. Tres Palabras [Without You]
13. Acércate Más [Come Closer To Me]
14. Ay, Cosita Linda
15. Cachito
16. Nadie Me Ama
17. El Bodeguero
18. La Feria De Las Flores
19. Te Quiero, Dijiste [Magic Is The Moonlight]
20. Las Chiapanecas [While There'S Music There'S Romance]
21. Adiós Mariquita Linda Adiós And Farewell, My Lover]
22. Vaya Con Dios
23. No Me Platiques
24. Adelita
25. Aquí Se Habla En "Amor" [Love Is Spoken Here]
26. El Choclo
27. La Golondrina [The Swallow]
28. A Media Luz [When Lights Are Soft And Low]
29. Arrivederci Roma
30. Fantástico
31. Tú Eres Tan Amable



In 1958, Nat King Cole (1919-1965) dedicated an album to his international audience with Cole Español. There, for the first time ever, he sang in Spanish. It was a huge, kind of unexpected hit, for Latin-American music was still relatively unknown in America in the l950s. Cole didn’t speak Spanish at all, but he learned the lyrics phonetically. He was accompanied on most tracks by an orchestra conducted by Armando Romeu, Jr., in Havana, Cuba, in February of 1958. Dave Cavanaugh would back Cole on his second album in Spanish. Such was the success of the first attempt, that two more albums followed it in 1959 and 1961: A Mis Amigos and More Cole Español. While the initial LP had employed pre-recorded backgrounds made in Cuba, to which Cole added the vocal parts in Hollywood, all of the material from A mis amigos was taped in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the singer’s 1959 tour of Latin America. This LP edition puts together the very best 21 performances from the three original albums.

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