Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles at Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from his mother and his family moved to Chicago when he was only five, where his father Edward James Coles was a minister at the True Light Baptist Church and later Pastor of the First Baptist Church. At 12 he was playing the church organ and at 14 he formed a 14 piece band called the Royal Dukes...See full bio »
1994With Honors
(performer: "The Christmas Song Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire")
1994The Ref
(performer: "The Christmas Song", "O Little Town Of Bethlehem", "Adeste Fidelis" / arranger: "O Little Town Of Bethlehem", "Adeste Fidelis")
1993Grumpy Old Men
(performer: "O HOLY NIGHT", "JOY TO THE WORLD" / arranger: "O HOLY NIGHT", "JOY TO THE WORLD")
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Academy Award Songs
(1960)
(performer: "Mona Lisa" - uncredited, "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" - uncredited, "Lullaby of Broadway" - uncredited, "The Five Pennies" - uncredited)
1958St. Louis Blues
(performer: "Morning Star", "Careless Love", "Saint Louis Blues")
[In an interview the day before his TV show opened] Negroes have been exposed to many single appearances but have not been given a chance to do a regular show before now. I've been waging a personal campaign, aiming at a show of this kind. I hit a few snags here and there but I didn't give up the fight. It could be a turning point so that Negroes may be featured regularly on television.
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Winner of a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy award in 1989. Incredibly enough, he was nominated for a Grammy only once in his lifetime, in 1958, and lost.
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