SWEET LORRAINE
NAT KING COLE
SONGWRITERS: CLIFFORD BURWELL & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SWEET LORRAINE
LABEL: CLASSIC JAZZ
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1992
Nathaniel Adams Coles(March 17, 1919 –
February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American
singer, jazz pianist, and actor. 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.
He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame(1960) and a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award.
Posthumously, Cole has received the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award(1990), along with the Sammy Cahn
Lifetime Achievement Award(1992) and has been
inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame(2000), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame(2020).
Cole started his career as a jazz pianist in the
late 1930s, where he formed The King Cole Trio which became the top-selling
group (and the only black act) on Capitol Records in the 1940s. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Starting in 1950 he transitioned to become a solo
singer billed as Nat King Cole. Despite achieving mainstream success, during
his career he faced intense racial
discrimination. While not a major vocal public
figure in the civil rights
movement, Cole was a member of his local NAACP branch and
participated in the 1963 March on
Washington. He regularly performed for
civil rights organizations. From 1956 to 1957, he hosted the NBC variety series The Nat King
Cole Show, which became the first nationally broadcast
television show hosted by an African American.
Some of his most notable singles include
"Unforgettable",
"Smile",
"L-O-V-E",
"Let There Be
Love", "Mona Lisa",
"Autumn Leaves",
"Stardust",
"Straighten Up
and Fly Right", "The Very
Thought of You", "For Sentimental Reasons",
"Embraceable You"
and "Almost Like
Being in Love". He is known for his
Christmas album The Magic of Christmas(1960)
which included "The Christmas Song";
in 1999 it was named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time. He was the
father of singer Natalie Cole(1950–2015),
who covered her father's songs in the 1991 album Unforgettable...
with Love.
I've just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy
With another brand new choo-choo toy
When I met my sweet Lorraine, Lorraine,
Lorraine
She's got a pair of eyes
That are brighter than the summer sky
When you see them, you'll realize
Why I love my sweet Lorraine
Now when it's rainin', I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle
Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine
Now when it's rainin', I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle
Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine.
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