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The Double Life of Nat King Cole - Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine


The Double Life of Nat King Cole
After Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole is the best remembered of the singers who dominated American popular music between the end of the big-band era and the advent of rock ’n’ roll. Chiefly known today as a performer of romantic ballads, he had a dark, grainy baritone voice with which he sang in a style at once intimate and unmannered. While Cole’s reputation went into a temporary eclipse as a result of his early death a lifelong chain smoker, he died of lung cancer in 1965, three decades before Sinatra gave his last public performance he was restored to prominence in 1991 when his daughter Natalie, herself a talented pop singer, released a single of “Unforgettable” in which his original performance of the song, recorded 40 years earlier, was electronically superimposed on her own to create a “virtual duet.” The record put Cole back in the limelight, and he has been there ever since. ....

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