Straighten Up and Fly Right
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
By Will FriedwaldBy fall 1963, Cole and Hutton were involved in an intimate relationship. Maria first acknowledged this not in her own 1971 book but in the Epstein biography, published in 1999.38 For her part, Hutton has never spoken publicly about it, ...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
By Will FriedwaldFriedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the man in the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) ...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
By Will FriedwaldThough “Too Young to Go Steady” was the hit (peaking at #21 in the US and #8 UK), the real winner in the long run was ... (It's credited to Dennis Farnon, part of the Canadian-English-American musical dynasty of Farnons, including also ...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: A Chronology and Discography of Nat King Cole
By Klaus TeubigIt includes for the first time Cole's unknown 16 transcriptions of his Wild Root broadcasts. This volume documents the development of a gifted pianist into a ballad-singing star and leader of the most famous jazz trio of the 1940s.
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: A Chronology and Discography of Nat King Cole
Thirty years of collecting and 15 years of research have resulted in this discography that features all known recordings, transcriptions, and films made by Cole until 1950, when his jazz...