When Natalie Cole followed her famous father's footsteps by pursuing a musical career in the seventies, she went the route of other R&B divas of the time - performing light disco tunes (one of which was an annoying song now used for annoying E-Harmony.com ads) that had nothing to with Nat "King" Cole's music. (The elder Cole hated rock and roll and everything associated with it.)
Ironically, Natalie's biggest moment of success came with an album of tunes her father had recorded, with straight jazz arrangements just as her dad had done them. The centerpiece of the record was a recording of "Unfrogettable" that, thanks to the magic of editing and overdubbng, was a duet with her late father.
And to think she had had a hit with a Springsteen song only a few years earlier.
No comments:
Post a Comment