Search - Nat King Cole :: Songs From the Heart (Dig)

So romantic!

M. Maynard | Detroit, Michigan USA | 08/15/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This immediately joined my Romantic Evening Hall of Fame, along with favorite recordings by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobin. This is a lovely compilation of some of Nat "King" Cole's hits, along with really pretty songs that I'd never heard before. I bought this for his recording of "Stay As Sweet As You Are" which is enchanting. This is a great album to put on the CD on a summer night and listen to while sitting on a porch swing with a glass of wine."

Almost perfect...

William E. Adams | Midland, Texas USA | 06/07/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The only reason I rate this collection of love ballads four instead of five is that the selections are just a hair too mellow. According to the liner notes, the purpose was to make a disc of Nat performing a mixture of well-known standards and lesser-known but worthy songs that celebrated love and relationships in a positive way. Mission accomplished, but the CD would have been even more enjoyable with perhaps three uptempo numbers spread among its 18 tracks. Still, this is a great singer giving us wonderful performances of excellent songs. My favorites are "Too Marvelous for Words" and "Impossible" and "Let's Fall in Love" and "The More I See You." Songwriters represented here include Johnny Mercer, Steve Allen, Harry Warren, Jimmy van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Dick Whiting and bandleader Ray Noble. Songs like this aren't being written anymore, and American life is poorer for it. Singers like Nat can't get on the charts anymore, and that's criminal."