Macgregor Years [Box set]

Nat King Cole | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1941
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Music & Arts Program
• ASIN: B000001OH8
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,595 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. It's Only a Paper Moon

2. (What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?

3. I Wanna Turn Out My Light

4. You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)

5. If I Had You

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Disc: 2

1. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?

2. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

3. Shoo Shoo Baby

4. Solid Potato Salad

5. Miss Thing

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Disc: 3

1. Little Joe from Chicago

2. Rhythm Sam

3. Have Fun

4. On the Sunny Side of the Street

5. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

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Disc: 4

1. Someone's in the Kitchen With Dinah

2. Basin Street Blues

3. On the Sunny Side of the Street

4. (I've Got Those) Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad

5. I've Heard That Song Before

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Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The many 5 star tracks outweigh some 3 & 4 star tracks..., July 18, 2005

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jasonlovesjazz (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macgregor Years (Audio CD)

I own over 15 discs of Nat King Cole. I generally prefer his trio work to the later stuff, with one notable exception being the "Big Band Cole" album with Count Basie and Stan Kenton. But of all my Nat King Cole albums, so many of my favorite tracks come from "The MacGregor Years". Some of my favorites, I'd never even heard of before (Little Joe From Chicago, Rhythm Sam, Solid Potato Salad). Other favorite tracks are standards performed with that irrefutable King Cole Trio swing (On The Sunny Side of the Street, Besame Mucho, Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me). The light yet intense groove they lay down is so tight it just makes me smile every time I throw this on.

I can't deny that there are a few weak tracks. In fact, when I ripped this set to mp3, I skipped over most of the tracks with guest vocalists. (Luckily, there aren't too many.) If this were sifted down to 2 discs, it would easily be 5 stars, but as is, it rates 4 stars, only for the inconsistency. If you know you'll rip it to mp3, consider my vote 5 stars because the good tracks are priceless.