interesting memorabilia..and deserving issue...Nat King Cole was a fantastic talent. His recording of "Mona Lisa" will always be one of the all time greats..

Nice tribute to a great and classy talent.

yes...nice job...5s

Thanks, I remembered Cole from when I was small...he was one of my Mother's favorite singers. But I really wasn't aware of just how good he was until I bought a DVD of songs culled from his TV show and watched it with my Dad this last Saturday afternoon...I really figured that my Dad would at least recognize the songs (he is having trouble memory-wise these days) and that I would find them well-done, if not totally my cup of tea, music-wise...Got a big surprise...it was very, very good! My Dad thoroughly enjoyed it, even singing some of the lyrics ahead of Cole in places...he was moving his toes with the music and applauded after some songs. I was amazed, not so much by the singing, which I expected, but by Cole's piano talent and touch and the way his personal charisma and warmth came through on the screen ...he played with great dexterity and ease while singing at the same time...and clearly enjoying it - he was playing with a small combo of fine players from that era....The DVD has 47 songs (we only watched about half...Dad decided he'd liked to save the other half for this coming weekend - Cool - it's something we can do that both of us can relate to and enjoy.). So I guess the "consolation" for Cole...long gone, of course...is that his memory, talents and spirit live on his music...hmmm...and also that the ignorant prejudice that killed off his show has subsided to a large degree.

Historical and touching.

Thanks, Tim ~ ~ ~

Thought-provoking story and good OS choice. 5-5-5!

PPP...poignant parody, Paul! 555

Excellent. Nat Cole was, and is, one of my all-time favorite performers- I'm old enough to remember when many of his hits were new. Never made a bad record. When this song became a chart-topper all over again (in daughter Natalie's "enhanced" version), I made an observation friends never forgot: "If that's the #1 album, there's still hope for this country." Thanks for this classy entry.

One classy performer that I'm just finding out about. Good job, Paul.

Nicely done. Nat Cole was a phenomenal piano talent and charismatic performer.

Historical, cultural, and Most Regrettable a story indeed. 5's

Thank you all...it's interesting how thoughts, actions, responses and reactions can create such a positive ripple in such a short span of time...as I said, I knew Nat Cole was very talented and had done some wonderful songs but I really did not know too much more than that. As we were watching it I realized that these songs were all performed on the same basic set...then I read the DVD back-cover notes again...I probably looked at them when I was deciding which Nat Cole DVD to buy, but it didn't set off any alarms at that time...When I read that it was all from the TV show I made a mental note to look up the show on the Web later on (Dad's not connected to the Net) when I got home...I checked it out the next day and as I was reading it I thought it was the type of story that should be told.

Anybody who can inspire both Ray Charles and Burt Reynolds (who once called Nat his favorite singer of all time) deserves to be called King... not to mention a second season. Maybe he had too much class to complain, but maybe he, alone, could've gotten away with it.

yeah, you petty dipward, you think "one-ing" 3 or 4 of my back pieces every day makes up for not being able to deal with me linguistically. You know who you are. So my average gets lower...big deal...that still doesn't make you anything but a petty dipward who can't argue their way out of a paper bag. have a nice dipwad day...