Nat King Cole - Blame It on My Youth (1956)
Vložit
- čas přidán 7. 01. 2013
- Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history.
Join our CZcams: goo.gl/8AOGaN
Join our Facebook: goo.gl/5oL723
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft baritone voice, performing in big band and jazz genres, and was a major force in popular music for three decades. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a national television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show. His recordings remained popular worldwide after his death from lung cancer in February 1965.
Nathaniel Adams Coles was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 17, 1919. He had three brothers-Eddie (1910-1970), Ike (1927-2001), and Freddy (born 1931)-and a half-sister, Joyce Coles. Each of his brothers pursued careers in music. When Nat was four years old, he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where his father, Edward Coles, became a Baptist minister. Nat learned to play the organ from his mother, Perlina Coles, the church organist. His first performance was of "Yes! We Have No Bananas" at the age of four. He began formal lessons at 12 and eventually learned not only jazz and gospel music but also Western classical music; he performed "from Johann Sebastian Bach to Sergei Rachmaninoff."
Inspired by the performances of Hines, Cole began his performing career in the mid-1930s while still a teenager, adopting the name Nat Cole. His older brother, Eddie, a bass player, soon joined Cole's band, and they made their first recording in 1936, under Eddie's name. They also were regular performers in clubs. Cole acquired his nickname, "King", performing at one jazz club, a nickname presumably reinforced by the otherwise unrelated nursery rhyme about Old King Cole. He was also a pianist in a national tour of Eubie Blake's revue, Shuffle Along. When it suddenly failed in Long Beach, California, Cole decided to remain there. He later returned to Chicago in triumph to play such venues as the Edgewater Beach Hotel.
Cole and two other musicians formed the "King Cole Swingsters" in Long Beach and played in a number of local bars before getting a gig on the Long Beach Pike for US $90.00 per week ($1,535 in 2015). The trio consisted of Cole on piano, Oscar Moore on guitar, and Wesley Prince on double bass. The trio played in Failsworth through the late 1930s and recorded many radio transcriptions for Capitol Transcriptions. Cole was the pianist and also the leader of the combo. Radio was important to the King Cole Trio's rise in popularity. Their first broadcast was with NBC's Blue Network in 1938. It was followed by performances on NBC's Swing Soiree. In the 1940s, the trio appeared on the radio shows Old Gold, The Chesterfield Supper Club and Kraft Music Hall. The King Cole Trio performed twice on CBS Radio's variety show The Orson Welles Almanac in 1944.
Cole was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. He was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2007. A United States postage stamp featuring Cole's likeness was issued in 1994. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, as a major influence on early rock and roll, and the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, for his contribution to Latin music.
Cole's success at Capitol Records, for which he recorded more than 150 singles that reached the Billboard Pop, R&B, and Country charts, has yet to be matched by any Capitol artist. his records sold 50 million copies during his career. His recording of "The Christmas Song" still receives airplay every holiday season.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Kin... - Hudba
I've been a 'jazz', 'swing' lover since the age of 16 ( and I'm now 81) and can you believe that I have never come across this song until a couple of months ago and now I just cannot get it out of my head - really - it is there when I wake up and when I go to sleep, and I've listened to every rendering of it that I can find. Musically it just blows my mind. They are all so good but I suppose Keith Jarret's rendering must be the one that totally absorbs me the most.
Just try joey alexander version blame it on my youth
I'm totally in the Mehldau's version on "Art Of Trio Vol. 1" is somethin out of this world! Thanks to you Brad
I know this is kinda late, but if you haven't you absolutely MUST hear Jamie Cullums rendition of this song!!! Coming from a now 19 year old😉
John Stacey-Hibbert year Chris connor
I am hearing it for the first time and already bonding with it. Another fine aspect of Oscar Levant.
If I can't keep my promise blame it on my youth.
GREAT !
The definition of cool is Nat King Cole
Above cool was brought up with his music am now 70 Magic happens once in your life
Q
More like Dat King Cool
Dean Martin, King of Cool! Nat was great!
The one and only Nat King Cole my father's favorite. Class personified...........
The liquid gold sound of Nat King Coles voice and Oscar's harmonies send me back to Frat-Football weekends at Carolina
oh, I miss him.
Sings like Velvet♥️🎶♥️🎵♥️🎶
So beautiful and sad...
Oooooo I love all types of music ……. But this man makes my heart so so happy xx
The inimitable Nat King Cole!
Inolvidable Nat. Un músico de un talento increíble...siempre en mi corazón.
Soy de colombia🇨🇴tengo 18 años🍷& me encanta me fascina el jazz❤🎶is art🎼
touch my heart
Magical,
I just watched an old Jennifer Beals movie "Let It Be Me" and heard this song for the first time ever. Sue me, I was born in 1971, lol. In the movie I'm sure it's Frank Sinatra singing it, but I found this version by Nat King Cole, and since I love listening to him so much, I didn't even bother looking for Frank Sinatra's. I love it.
So sweet
Magical Nat the King Cole
If I expected love when first we kissed
Blame it on my youth
If only just for you I did exist
Blame it on my youth
I believed in everything
Like a child at three
You meant more than everything
All the world to me
If you were on my mind all night and day
Blame it on my youth
If I forgot to eat and sleep and pray
Blame it on my youth
If I cried a little bit
When first I learned the truth
Don't blame it on my heart
Blame it on my youth
If you were on my mind all night and day
Blame it on my youth
If I forgot to eat and sleep and pray
Blame it on my youth
If I cried a little bit
When first I learned the truth
Don't blame it on my heart
Blame it on my youth
Song is beautiful
Few can render the element of melody in any song as well as Mr. Cole does here. Sinatra does convey to us the sense of loss and heartbreak.
My 2 favs
Nat had a skill with adding sex appeal to the songs.
Wonderful
Better than blinks
素敵✨
素敵ですね〜✨
cool !cool !
Music by Oscar Levant, lyrics by Edward Heyman (1934). Nat King Cole was a legendary talent, but this song, sung by many others, endures to this day, eighty-six years after it was written, despite the fact that it is notoriously difficult to sing well.
Thanks for the background info and the challenge of singing this song well.
Written by Oscar...it would be. He never did anything the easy way.
by Oscar Levant ...genius.
Much better than Blink 182's song.
Sinatra's dream was to sing like Nat.
Really?
Master Cole's delivery in the romantic reperoire was, and remains, incomparable. In this performance he has reconciled with rejection.
However, Sinatra in this song (from 'Close to You' Lp) has experienced heartbreak.
I've been there. As a "loser" towards whom Sinatra's concept album was intended, the choice here is entirely mine.
@mauricioduron3193 my fave singing version is Jamie Cullum (Martin Taylor on guitar)
My fave instrumental version is Keith Jarret
I still think Freddy Coles version is the best!
作曲；O.Levant
作詞；E.Heyman
If I expected love when first we kissed,
Blame it on my youth.
If only just for you I did exist,
Blame it on my youth.
I believed in everything,
Like a child of three.
You meant more than anything,
All the world to me.
If you were on my mind both night and day,
Blame it on my youth.
If I forgot to eat and sleep and pray,
Blame it on my youth.
And if I cried a little bit when first I learned the truth,
Don't blame it on my heart,
Blame it on my youth.
🌍❤🎶🎶
Anyone know the horn player
tui
The very best rendition is by far by Chet Baker. Do check it out folks. G’day & Cheers!
Wonderful