NEW Nat "King" Cole - Just One Of Those Things (Vinyl LP 1962*, SW 903)
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NEW Nat "King" Cole - Just One Of Those Things (Vinyl LP 1962*, SW 903)
Review from another site: 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.
* NOTE: This album was released in 1957 as a monaural version, the first Stereo Version coming out in 1958. This is probably the 1962 Stereo edition, but there is no way to verify which it is without opening it and checking the color of the label, and I am not going to do that.
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