Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943)

by Nat King Cole

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1.	With Plenty of Money and You 02:16	buy track
2.	Liza 02:58	buy track
3.	There's No Anesthetic for Love 03:13	buy track
4.	Riffin' at the Bar-B-Q 02:05	buy track
5.	Honey 02:11	buy track
6.	Two Against One 03:00	buy track
7.	Black Spider Stomp 02:56	buy track
8.	Sweet Lorraine 03:23	buy track
9.	Off the Beam 02:18	buy track
10.	Early Morning Blues 02:55	buy track
11.	Gone with the Draft 02:12	buy track
12.	What'cha Know Joe 02:36	buy track
13.	Blue Lou 03:01	buy track
14.	Baby, Won’t You Please Come 02:20	buy track
15.	Rosetta 02:11	buy track
16.	Hit that Jive, Jack 01:53	buy track
17.	I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 03:44	buy track
18.	Hip Hip Hooray 02:25	buy track
19.	Slender, Tender, and Tall 02:06	buy track
20.	Straighten Up and Fly Right 02:02	buy track
21.	This Side Up 02:47	buy track

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Straighten Up and Fly Right is a 21-track best of collection from 2019's critically acclaimed Nat King Cole box set Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years 1936-1943. Released officially in partnership with the Nat King Cole Estate, Hittin' the Ramp is a rare comprehensive collection of Cole's pre-Capitol recordings. The meticulously restored tracks include an assortment of never-before-issued recordings, some seeing their first commercial releases, with rarities culled from transcription tape reels and private collector copies. Contains over a dozen transcriptions, mainly by the trio, cut by Standard and Davis & Schwegler for servicing to radio stations, as well as wartime recordings produced for American servicemen by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
This is the streaming debut of these 21 tracks, 15 which haven’t ever appeared on any other Nat King Cole digital release. Features a bonus track of a 1941 transcription alternate version of “This Side Up” that does not appear on the box set.
The box set was glowingly reviewed in Forbes, The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal and countless other media outlets. This 'best of' collection is being released in conjunction with the upcoming Oxford Press book release of Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life & Music of Nat King Cole by author Will Friedwald, who was also a co-producer of the Hittin' the Ramp box set.

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released May 8, 2020

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Nat King Cole, legendary vocalist, pianist, and actor, can now be appreciated in a brand new way thanks to the work of Resonance Records and the Nat King Cole Estate. Born in 1919, Cole began his career by joining his older brother Eddie Cole on two recordings for Decca. This sparked a lasting career as a recording artist, performer, film actor, and television host. ... more

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