![]() A Blossom Fell is precisely the reverse scenario: we care about the song only because Nat Cole had a hit with it. In many cases, the original source of the great songs is irrelevant only scholars and music nerds would care that All The Things You Are was introduced by a singer no one has ever heard of (even in 1939) in a show called 'Very Warm For May' that quickly flopped. ![]() ![]() In a sense, this was the opposite of the traditional path into The Great American Songbook. Hilton, I doubt that anyone would remember this particular song – and many others - were it not for Cole. The song is also an archetypical Nat King Cole hit in that, with no disrespect intended to Mr. Around the same time A Blossom Fell was released in America, Cole's disc also charted in the song's native country, where Cole's version climbed considerably higher than rival recordings by home-grown crooners, Dickie Valentine and Ronnie Hilton. This tune was neither anywhere near as good a song nor, correspondingly, nearly as big a hit as A Blossom Fell.)įor most of his career, not only did a significant portion of Cole's material come from outside the United States, a large percentage of his market resided there as well. (The only other fact I have been able to find out about them is that they also wrote one other song that Cole put on the charts: the 1955 Dreams Can Tell A Lie. In this particular case, the song came from England, where it had been written by three rather obscure authors named Harold Cornelius, Dominic John and Howard Barnes. Cole must surely hold the record, you should forgive the expression, for doing more foreign-born songs than any other American entertainer – with the possible exception of Louis Armstrong. Like many of his hits in the '50s and '60s, it was a European import. Cole would land more than a hundred songs on various hit charts over a 25-year period in his lifetime alone yet A Blossom Fell was one of the 36 songs they chose to re-record in stereo in 1961, for the retrospective album, 'The Nat King Cole Story.'Ī Blossom Fell was in many ways, a typical Nat King Cole song. Empirical evidence suggests that Cole and his producer, Lee Gillette, regarded A Blossom Fell as one of the singer's all-time greatest hits. The song would be one of Cole's big hits of 1955 in 1956 it would become the lead track of his album 'Ballads Of The Day,' a popular compilation of successful singles. On December 20, 1954, a little more than a week before the start of the period covered by this box set, Nat King Cole and his musical director Nelson Riddle recorded A Blossom Fell. "Some performers - like myself - have to be loud and rambunctious. ![]()
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