Nat ‘King’ Cole – Just One of Those Things

“…in terms of sound, the originals are a distant second to these 45rpm LPs. Cole’s voice is up front, and the accompaniment, especially the massed strings, has a colorful vividness.” – Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat, September 2010

Analogue Productions’ Blue Note and Nat “King” Cole Reissues WIN A Positive Feedback 2010 Brutus Award!
“…if you haven’t picked up every one of the Blue Note and Nat King Cole reissues from Chad Kassem and company at Acoustic Sounds, you’re really missing out!” – David W. Robinson, Positive Feedback, Issue 52

“…the originals are a distant second to these 45rpm LPs. Cole’s voice is up front, and the accompaniment, especially the massed strings, has a colorful vividness…Recordings this revealing offer new ways of evaluating everything about the recording sessions, and both sets hold up under the scrutiny…All of Analogue Productions’ Nat ‘King’ Cole releases go the extra mile. They come with well-done booklets that discuss in detail each album’s history and the remastering wizardry responsible for their sonics.” – Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat, September 5, 2010

“…the Nat King Cole LPs are astonishingly beautiful, particularly played through my new Wilson Maxx3’s. They make me cry.” – Max Paley, Acoustic Sounds customer

Contrasting downbeat ballads with an ironic brassy, upbeat big band attitude, the ironic Cole Porter standard Just One Of Those Things sets the tone for a distinctive, pungent experience of love and disillusionment with a swing. Brilliantly backing the intimately expressive and supremely musical voice of the incomparable Nat “King” Cole, a big band with no “strings” smolders, swings, saunters, storms, sighs and sizzles with the arrangements of the distinctive Billy May. Featuring top shelf interpretations of “These Foolish Things,” “Who’s Sorry Now?” “The Party’s Over” and more, this album is among its era’s finest recordings of popular music and its quality, style and spirit remains unexcelled.

Using the original 3-track session tapes from Capitol’s vaults and all-analogue systems including custom headstacks, 3-track preview heads, console and monitoring chain installed at AcousTech specially for these releases, mastering engineers Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman realize the stunning beauty of these recordings. A superb track recorded for the album, “You’ll Never Know,” which was omitted due to space constraints, is included in this double 45-RPM 180-gram album set. Included with this deluxe reissue is a striking four-panel booklet complete with rare photos, a 2,200-word essay by Jordan Taylor on the album and a 1,200-word essay by Michael Fremer about the remastering process. This truly is a no-expenses-spared project, resulting in the ultimate version of this title and a historic reissue.

Originally released in 1957.