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Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
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entertainment · American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965) · singer-songwriter · pianist · actor · jazz musician · jazz guitarist · television actor · musician · singer · also Nat King Cole, Nat “King” Cole, Nathaniel Adams Coles, Cole
Born 17 March 1919 · Died 15 February 1965 · Q137042
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2026· 14 entries
“I have not taken part in any protests. Nor have I joined an organization fighting segregation. Why should they attack me?”
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Published video “Make Her Mine”.
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Published video “Unforgettable (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Orange Colored Sky (Remastered)”.
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Published video “The Christmas Song (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Smile (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Prelude in C# Minor Take 2 (2026 Remaster)”.
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Published video “ラヴ”.
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Published video “スターダスト”.
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Published video “Let's Face The Music And Dance (2005 Remastered Version)”.
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Published video “月光価千金”.
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Yahoo: Nat King Cole's 'Unforgettable' Gets First Official Music Video for 75th Anniversary
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Public attention spiked: 6,701 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.5× the usual 1,483, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
Rolling Stone: New Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole Scholarship Awarded at Berklee College of Music
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Dollars) to actress and singer Gunilla Hutton, with whom Cole had been romantically involved since early 1964
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2024· 2 entries
Forbes: Nat King Cole Earns His First Top 10 On A Billboard Chart Almost 60 Years After His Death
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Forbes: Nat King Cole’s New Album Hits The Charts–Nearly 60 Years After His Passing
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “From The Capitol Vaults (vol. 4)”.
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Uproxx: Nat King Cole Just Set A Wild Chart Record With His First Top-10 Song In Nearly 60 Years
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2022· 1 entry
Cole's recording of "The Christmas Song", broke the record for the longest journey to the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, when it peaked at number nine, 62 years after it debuted on the chart; and was selected by the L
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Make Her Mine: Nat King Cole Favourites”.
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2020· 1 entry
Cole was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Quizás, Quizás, Quizás...”.
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Yahoo: Nat King Cole’s Daughters Celebrate the Music Legend's 100th Birthday: 'He Touched the Soul'
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Sincerely”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “The Nat 'King' Cole Story Vol. 2: Stardust (Remastered)”.
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Released album “The Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio with Nat "King" Cole”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Icon”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “The Definitive Nat King Cole Collection, Vol. 3”.
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The year of the inauguration of Barack Obama as America's first black president, Capitol released an album Voices of Change, Then and Now
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2008· 2 entries
It was re-released in digital-download format through services like iTunes and Amazon Music
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Released album “The Unforgettable”.
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Latin Grammy Hall of Fame for Cole Español (2007).
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Released album “The Definitive Christmas Collection”.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000).
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And the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013
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1999· 1 entry
Released album ““Jazzy” The Beginnings”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “For All We Know”.
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1992· 1 entry
Cole received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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1991· 3 entries
Natalie Cole recorded a new vocal track that was mixed with her father's 1961 stereo re-recording of his 1951 hit "Unforgettable" for a tribute album of the same title on Elektra Records
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By Cole's daughter Natalie when modern recording technology was used to reunite father and daughter in a duet
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Mosaic Records released The Complete Capitol Records Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, a compilation of 349 songs available as an 18-CD or a 27-LP set
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1990).
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Released album “Nat King Cole: Greatest Country Hits”.
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Released album “Nat King Cole Collectors Series”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “16 exitos originales”.
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1988· 11 entries
Released album “The Nat King Cole Collection: The Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Mona Lisa”.
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Released album “Legendary Singers: Nat King Cole”.
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Released album “The Magic of Nat King Cole”.
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Released album “The Legendary Nat 'King' Cole”.
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Released album “Twin Best Now”.
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Released album “Canta Español”.
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Released album “The Nat King Cole Collection”.
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Released album “Legendary Singers - Nat King Cole: Take 2”.
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Released album “Christmas With Nat King Cole”.
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Released album “The Wonderful World of Nat 'King' Cole”.
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1987· 6 entries
Released album “Body and Soul”.
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Released album “Cole Español and More, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Romantic World of Nat King Cole”.
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Released in reaction to a version by Rick Astley challenging for the coveted Christmas number 1 spot
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Released album “Greatest Love Songs”.
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Released album “Nat King Cole and All His Friends, Volume 2”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Best Of”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “The Golden Library Collection”.
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Released album “20 Greatest Hits”.
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1983· 1 entry
An archivist for EMI Electrola Records, a subsidiary of EMI (Capitol's parent company until 2013) in Germany, discovered some unreleased recordings by Cole, including one in Japanese and another in Spanish ("Tu Eres Tan
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “20 Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Golden Record”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “His Greatest Success: 32 Live Original Songs”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Love Is Here to Stay”.
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Released album “Meets The Master Saxes - Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “From The Very Beginning”.
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Released album “The Magic Of Christmas”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Nat King Cole's Greatest”.
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “The Piano Soul of Nat King Cole”.
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Released album “The Best of Nat King Cole”.
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Nelson Riddle related an incident from some years earlier of music studio engineers searching for a source of noise and finding Cole listening to a game on a transistor radio
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Thank You, Pretty Baby”.
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1966· 6 entries
Released album “Love Is A Many Splendored Thing”.
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Released album “The Unforgettable Nat Cole Sings The Great Songs!”.
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Released album “Nat Cole At JATP 2”.
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Released album “Nat Cole At JATP”.
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Released album “The Magic of Christmas With Children”.
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Released album “Nat King Cole Golden Treasury “Unforgettable””.
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1965· 6 entries
Died 1965-02-15.
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Released album “The Unforgettable Nat King Cole”.
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Released album “Looking Back”.
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Cole was an active and visible participant in the civil rights movement, playing an important role in planning the March on Washington in 1963
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“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”
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“I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”
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1964· 6 entries
And cobalt therapy was started on December 10
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Released album “L-O-V-E”.
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Released album “Sings My Fair Lady”.
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Released album “Let’s Face the Music!”.
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Released album “I Don’t Want to Be Hurt Anymore”.
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Released album “Forever Yours”.
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1963· 4 entries
Released album “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer”.
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Released album “Where Did Everyone Go?”.
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Released album “Sings the Blues”.
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Released album “Nat King Cole”.
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1962· 4 entries
Released album “Ramblin’ Rose”.
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Released album “The Touch of Your Lips”.
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Released album “More Cole Español”.
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Released album “Dear Lonely Hearts”.
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays”.
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Released album “The Nat King Cole Story”.
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The country-flavored hit "Ramblin' Rose" in August 1962 (reaching No
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1960· 5 entries
Released album “Tell Me All About Yourself”.
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Released album “The Christmas Song”.
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Released album “Every Time I Feel the Spirit”.
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Cole's longtime collaborator Nelson Riddle left Capitol to join Reprise Records, which was established by Frank Sinatra
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Released album “Wild Is Love”.
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1959· 4 entries
Released album “Welcome to the Club”.
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Cole received a Grammy Award for Best Performance By a "Top 40" Artist for "Midnight Flyer"
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Released album “A mis amigos”.
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Released album “To Whom It May Concern”.
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Cole español”.
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Released album “The Very Thought of You”.
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Released album “St. Louis Blues”.
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Cole went to Havana, Cuba, to record Cole Español, an album sung entirely in Spanish
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1957· 4 entries
Released album “This Is Nat “King” Cole”.
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Released album “Love Is the Thing”.
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“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”
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Released album “Just One of Those Things”.
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1956· 6 entries
The Nat 'King' Cole Show debuted on NBC
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Cole was assaulted during a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, while singing the song "Little Girl" on stage with the Ted Heath Band
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Released album “The Piano Style of Nat King Cole”.
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Cole was contracted to perform in Cuba
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Released album “Ballads of the Day”.
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The year that Nat King Cole wrote it
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1955· 2 entries
"Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" reached number 7 on the Billboard chart
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Released album “10th Anniversary Album”.
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1953· 2 entries
Released album “Sings for Two in Love”.
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Cole performed for the ninth Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, which was produced annually by Leon Hefflin, Sr
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1952· 3 entries
Released album “Penthouse Serenade”.
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Released album “Unforgettable”.
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Released album “Top Pops”.
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1950· 1 entry
Transitioned to become a solo singer billed as Nat King Cole
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1949· 1 entry
Released album “King Cole at the Piano”.
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1948· 1 entry
(Easter Sunday), six days after his divorce became final, Cole married singer Maria Hawkins
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1946· 2 entries
The trio broadcast King Cole Trio Time, a 15-minute radio program
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“(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons”
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1944· 1 entry
"Straighten Up and Fly Right" soared to the top of the charts
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1941· 1 entry
The trio recorded "That Ain't Right" for Decca, followed the next year by "All for You" for Excelsior
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1938· 1 entry
As he was relaxing in his hotel room, Bing Crosby heard the Nat Cole Trio for the first time from Jim Otto's Steak House, and then took Johnny Mercer to hear them
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1937· 2 entries
And was the reason why he moved to Los Angeles and formed the Nat King Cole trio
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Married Nadine Robinson, who was a member of the cast
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1936· 1 entry
As Eddie Cole's Swingsters
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-03-17.
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