He wrote the Nat King Cole hit “Nature Boy” and lived off the royalties for the rest of his life. He recorded the solo album Eden’s Island in 1960. The composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s own recordings of ...

MOULIN ROUGE! The Musical, is an electric jukebox musical based on the 2001 film Moulin Rouge! directed by Baz Luhrmann. The stage adaptation, like the movie, is a visually extravagant love story set ...

He explained as much in the biography Many Years From Now. “I’ve always loved the [Nat King Cole] song called ‘Nature Boy’,” he said. “‘There was a boy, a very strange and gentle boy ...

There is, perhaps, no better example of the stakes of “keeping cool” than the case of Nat King Cole ... animus that Cole faced while topping the pop charts. With popular fare like “Route 66,” “Mona ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole ... Though Cole is primarily remembered for his jazz and pop hits, the emotive power, communal emphasis and uplifting nature of Black sacred music profoundly ...

The proprietor slipped up to the bandstand, playfully popped a tinseled paper crown on the young singer’s head, and decreed: “King ... to Cole through his valet. It was called Nature Boy ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965 ... foundation of his musical education. Though Cole is primarily remembered for his jazz and pop hits, the emotive power, communal emphasis and ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole ... Though Cole is primarily remembered for his jazz and pop hits, the emotive power, communal emphasis and uplifting nature of Black sacred music profoundly ...

As he lay on his deathbed, Nat ‘King’ Cole repeatedly whispered “Skeeze ... When original nut-munching hippie eden ahbez brought him the song Nature Boy, Nat recorded it with an orchestra. The song ...