{"id":14924,"date":"2020-12-23T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14924"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:28:07","slug":"3-reasons-nat-king-cole-should-have-a-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14924","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Nat King Cole should Have a Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it&#8217;s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.&#8221; &#8211; Nat King Cole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nat King Cole, the stage name of Nathaniel Adams\u00a0Cole (1919-1965), has always been one of my favorite singers. He won a Grammy for &#8220;Midnight Flyer&#8221; and had 28 Top 40 hit songs. Mel Torm\u00e9\u00a0and Bob Wells&#8217;s 1945 piece &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/performingsongwriter.com\/christmas-song\/\">The Christmas Song<\/a>&#8221; is a Nat King Cole piece in my mind; I don&#8217;t care who else has sung it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nat King Cole - &quot;The Christmas Song&quot; (1961)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hwacxSnc4tI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cole also made famous a beautiful lullaby by Alfred Bryan and Larry Stock, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r5EBVHnLUlE\">A Cradle in Bethlehem<\/a>,&#8221; written in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Rowe notes the musician whose 100th birthday was last year should be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/unforgettable-life-three-reasons-nat-king-cole-needs-biopic\/\">someone&#8217;s list for well-produced biopics<\/a>. He offers these reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nat King Cole&#8217;s jazz style has drawn many followers and imitators.<\/li><li>He is one of the most popular singers of Jazz standards and class pop music.<\/li><li>He broke racial barriers with kindness.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(via Lars Walker on Facebook)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it&#8217;s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.&#8221; &#8211; Nat King Cole Nat King Cole, the stage name of Nathaniel Adams\u00a0Cole (1919-1965), has always been one of my favorite singers. He won a Grammy for &#8220;Midnight Flyer&#8221; and had 28 Top 40 hit songs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 Reasons Nat King Cole should Have a Biopic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[504,1403,3567],"class_list":["post-14924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-jazz","tag-nat-king-cole"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}