Album: King Cole Trio, Vol. 2 by The Nat King Cole Trio (1946)
Record Label: Decca Records
Format: Album

Artist Background: While performing at the Café Century during the summer of 1937, Nat King Cole was approached by the manager of the Swanee Inn, who invited him to put together a small band to play in the club. With guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Wesley Prince, the act debuted that fall, drawing upon the children's nursery rhyme ("Old King Cole was a merry old soul...") for the name the King Cole Swingsters, later simply the King Cole Trio. The group gradually built up a following, with Cole emerging as a ... Emerged in the classic era.

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King Cole Trio, Vol. 2

The Nat King Cole Trio

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