WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended together,
often in the same song. Our primary focus is on the music of the Jump Blues Era
of the 1940s which blended into the early part of the Rock & Roll Era of the 1950s
and on how those styles and artists have evolved over the years.
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Today’s featured artist is Nat King Cole. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, 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.
NAT KING COLE RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Alabama Music Hall of Fame
Obituary in Los Angeles Times
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Honey Boy Bill Doggett King Records 1954
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King Cole Trio
Capitol Records 1946
Indiana
Lester Young, Nat King Cole, & Red Calender
Philo Records 1945
Good Morning Judge Wynonie Harris King Records 1950
The House Of Blue Lights Ella Mae Morse Capital Record 1946
Smack Dab In The Middle Buster Poindexter Buster Poindexter 1987
Straighten Up and Fly Right
Lyle Lovett
12 of June 2022
I’m An Errand Boy For Rhythm
John Pizzarelli
My Blue Heaven 1990
Blues (First B Flat Blues)
Jazz at the Philharmonic
Norman Granz’ Jazz At The Philharmonic Vol. 4 1944
(guitar – Les Paul, piano – Nat King Cole,
tenor sax – Illinois Jacquet & Jack McVea, trombone – J.J. Johnson)
Real Pretty Mama Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
R.M. Blues Roy Milton Juke Box Records 1946
(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1952
Fever
Ray Charles & Natalie Cole
Genius Loves Company 2004
Orange Colored Sky
Nat King Cole Trio with Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Capitol Records 1950
Oh, Lady Be Good!
Jazz At The Philharmonic
JATP – Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, July 30, 1944
(tenor sax – Illinois Jacquet, piano – Nat King Cole,
bass – Red Callener, drums – Lee Young)
Blue Gardenia
Dinah Washington
EmArcy Records 1955
(arranger – Quincy Jones, piano – Wynton Kelly, trumpet – Clark Terry)
Whiskey Women & Loaded Dice Stick McGhee King Records 1953
The Rain Is Falling Albennie Jones Decca Records 1947
I’m Cracking Up Over You B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1955
Beware Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1946
Rocket 88 Rocket 88 w/ Hal Singer & Charlie Watts Rocket 88
My Time Is Expensive Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Peacock Records 1949
Jimmy Mule Big Maybelle Okeh Records 1953
Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You
Taj Mahal
Savoy 2023
Lover, Come Back To Me
Billie Holiday & Her Lads of Joy
Clef Records 1952
Nature Boy
Nat King Cole
Capitol Records 1948
Smile
Nat King Cole
Capitol Records 1954
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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