Nat King Cole - Sings The Blues 1963 [FLAC][EAC] vtwin88cube

Nat King Cole
Sings The Blues (1963)

For a mild-mannered man whose music was always easy on the ear, Nat King Cole managed to be a figure of considerable controversy during his 30 years as a professional musician. From the late '40s to the mid-'60s, he was a massively successful pop singer who ranked with such contemporaries as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin. He shared with those peers a career that encompassed hit records, international touring, radio and television shows, and appearances in films. But unlike them, he had not emerged from a background as a band singer in the swing era. Instead, he had spent a decade as a celebrated jazz pianist, leading his own small group. Oddly, that was one source of controversy. For some reason, there seem to be more jazz critics than fans of traditional pop among music journalists, and Cole's transition from jazz to pop during a period when jazz itself was becoming less popular was seen by them as a betrayal. At the same time, as a prominent African-American entertainer during an era of tumultuous change in social relations among the races in the U.S., he sometimes found himself out of favor with different warring sides. His efforts at integration, which included suing hotels that refused to admit him and moving into a previously all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles, earned the enmity of racists; once, he was even physically attacked on-stage in Alabama. But civil rights activists sometimes criticized him for not doing enough for the cause.


Channels: 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz
Sample Size: 16 bit

Audio Quality: Perfect (Lossless)
Grabber: Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1
Encoder: Flac 1.2.1
Encoder Settings: High
Contains: Album Art, CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
Cue File: Yes
Log File: No*

Format: Flac
Source: CD
Genre: Vocal
Year: 1963
Label: Capitol

*Note: I did not include the log file in the torrent for technical reasons, so I have included it here with the torrent description. Just copy and paste it into a notepad.

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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

EAC extraction logfile from 31. January 2011, 13:37

Unknown Artist / Unknown Title

Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : Yes

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Normalize to : 98 %
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 896 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program Files (x86)Exact Audio CopyFLACFLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %j--picture="%i"%j %s -o %d


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 2:04.38 | 0 | 9337
2 | 2:04.38 | 1:51.37 | 9338 | 17699
3 | 3:56.00 | 2:34.74 | 17700 | 29323
4 | 6:30.74 | 3:14.74 | 29324 | 43947
5 | 9:45.73 | 2:36.74 | 43948 | 55721
6 | 12:22.72 | 2:40.00 | 55722 | 67721
7 | 15:02.72 | 2:56.72 | 67722 | 80993
8 | 17:59.69 | 2:49.73 | 80994 | 93741
9 | 20:49.67 | 2:11.73 | 93742 | 103639
10 | 23:01.65 | 3:04.74 | 103640 | 117513
11 | 26:06.64 | 3:14.74 | 117514 | 132137
12 | 29:21.63 | 2:25.35 | 132138 | 143047


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01 Hesitating Blues.wav

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02 Harlem Blues.wav

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03 Chantez Les Bas.wav

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04 Friendless Blues.wav

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05 Stay.wav

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06 Joe Turner Blues.wav

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07 Beale Street Blues.wav

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08 Careless Love.wav

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09 Morning Star.wav

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10 Memphis Blues.wav

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11 Yellow Dog Blues.wav

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Track 12

12 St. Louis Blues.wav

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This LP was first released in (1958) as the soundtrack to the movie "St. Louis Blues". It was re-released in 1963 as "Nat King Cole Sings The Blues". It was ripped from the latter. I have included both LP covers. Notice the misspelling of track 4 - "Friendless Blues" - referring to it as "Friendliness Blues".

The filmed version of W.C. Handy's life, St. Louis Blues, is a fictional abomination full of every bad cliché that Hollywood could come up with. Its one saving grace was the dignified performance given by Nat King Cole in the lead role (even if Handy was never a singing pianist). This LP, in addition to featuring Nelson Riddle's "Overture" from the film, finds Cole singing ten of Handy's finest compositions (including "Beale Street Blues," "Careless Love" and the title song) while backed by an orchestra playing Riddle's arrangements.

01.Hesitating Blues
02.Harlem Blues
03.Chantez Les Bas
04.Friendless Blues
05.Stay
06.Joe Turner Blues
07.Beale Street Blues
08.Careless Love
09.Morning Star
10.Memphis Blues
11.Yellow Dog Blues
12.St. Louis Blues


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