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The Very Thought of You (Nat King Cole album)

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Released
  
November 1958

Length
  
62:36

Artist
  
Nat King Cole

Label
  
Capitol Records

Recorded
  
May 2, 6, 8, 1958

Producer
  
Lee Gillette

Release date
  
November 1958

Genre
  
Jazz

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The Very Thought of You is a 1958 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. The album peaked at #17 on Billboard Magazine's Top LP chart.

Contents

The very thought of you piano solo with chords annotations


Track listing

LP side A:

  1. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 3:52
  2. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:30
  3. "Impossible" (Steve Allen) – 3:12
  4. "I Wish I Knew (Notorious)" (C.A. Rossi, Al Stillman) – 3:16
  5. "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (Mort Dixon, Billy Rose, Harry Warren) – 2:53
  6. "Magnificent Obsession" (Fred Karger, Frankie Laine) – 3:56
  7. "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart)" (Mack Gordon, Warren) – 4:16

LP side B:

  1. "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford) – 3:17
  2. "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) – 4:34
  3. "Cherie, I Love You" (Lillian Rosedale Goodman) – 3:34
  4. "Making Believe You're Here" (Sammy Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:42
  5. "Cherchez La Femme" (Bob Marcus, Lorenzo Pack) – 2:44
  6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 3:19
  7. "The More I See You" (Gordon, Warren) – 3:32

Bonus tracks added to Capitol Record's CD re-issue:

  1. "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 3:56
  2. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:03

Bonus tracks added to the Collectors' Choice Music CD re-issue, recorded in 1962:

  1. "Farewell to Arms" (Allie Wrubel, Abner Silver) – 2:51
  2. "Happy New Year" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:09


The "bonus" tracks "Don't Blame Me" and "There Is No Greater Love" were part of the original recording session, and were added to Capitol Record's 1987 and 1997 CD re-issues. In 2007 Collectors' Choice Music also re-issued "The Very Thought of You" on CD and included the tracks "Happy New Year" and "Farewell To Arms" from a 1962 recording session.

Performance

  • Nat King Cole – vocal
  • Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1The Very Thought of You3:54
    2But Beautiful3:32
    3Impossible3:14

    References

    The Very Thought of You (Nat King Cole album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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