Love Songs brings together tracks from throughout Nat "King" Cole's recording career with Capitol records. The swing pianist turned ballad vocalist had a prolific chart run in the 1950s. Six of his UK hits are featured here.
Track listing
"When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 3:11 "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) – 3:28 "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 3:48 "Too Young" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee) – 3:25 "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:47 "The More I See You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 3:28 "Stay As Sweet As You Are" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 2:58 "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:40 "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Gordon, Revel) - 2:40 "You're My Everything" (Mort Dixon, Warren, Young) – 2:49 "Because You're Mine" (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn) – 3:13 "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 2:33 "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin, Jack Strachey) – 4:44 "It's All in the Game" (Charles Dawes, Carl Sigman) – 3:06 "You Made Me Love You" (James V. Monaco, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:55 "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 3:16 (Nat King Cole Trio) "There Goes My Heart" (Benny Davis, Abner Silver) – 2:52 "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 2:43 "Answer Me" (Gerhard Winkler, Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman) – 2:56 "Orange Colored Sky" (Warren, Gordon) – 2:33 "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:15 "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 2:40 "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:46 "You'll Never Know" (Warren, Gordon) – 2:42 "Let There Be Love" (Lionel Rand, Ian Grant) – 2:45 (Nat King Cole & George Shearing Quintet) "More" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Marcello Diociolini, Norman Newell) – 2:07 "L-O-V-E" (Gordon, Revel) – 2:31 "I Wish You Love" (Warren, Gordon) – 2:54
Personnel Nat King Cole – vocals Les Baxter – arranger Ralph Carmichael – arranger, conductor Lee Gillette – producer Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor Bob Norberg – digital remastering Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
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