Natalie

Natalie Cole | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B000002R29
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,535 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Natalie Cole Natalie, June 29, 2004

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Nathaniel Marsaleno McGhee (Cleveland, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natalie (Audio CD)

Natalie Cole was just hitting her stride with her 1976 Album Natalie.Every song with Mr.Melody,Heaven Is With You,Sophisticated Lady(She's A Different Lady),No Plans For The Future,Can We Get Together Again?,Keep Smiling,Good Morning Heartache,Not Like Mine,Touch Me,and Hard To Get Along matters.She is a Unique Recording Artist despite new comparisons to Diana Ross,Chaka Khan,Ella Fitzgerald,and Nancy Wilson as well as the continued comparisons to her father the late Nat King Cole and Aretha Franklin.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ....and then there's"Natalie", September 19, 2001

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Q-MANN "[e-mail]" (new orleans,louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natalie (Audio CD)

This second lp from Natalie Cole (Natalie-1976)was a birthday gift from my sister.She was really into the lp and i soon discovered why.The hits"Sophistocated Lady" and "Mr.Melody" were all over the radio.Our radio station went further by pumping in on the playlist "Touch Me"(a serious R&B ballad of the day),her covering Billie Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache",The gospel fiery of "Keep Smiling" and the lucious hand crafted(for Natalie) ballads,"Heaven Is With You" and "No Plans For The Future".The lp had it going on and it was truly a birthday gift to cherish

5.0 out of 5 stars Miss Natalie is ONE "Sophisicated Lady!", October 24, 2009

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Starr S. (Portland, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natalie (Audio CD)

The first time I saw this album was at the public library in 1976. I actually borrowed it because I didn't know that Natalie had recorded an album after "Inseparable." When I brought it home, laid it on the turntable and heard that little music box opening from "Mr. Melody," I was in for more of a surprise than I had anticipated. This album, her second consecutive Gold album, had me smitten with its tender lyrics, awesome arrangements, great production and impeccable vocal delivery.

The songs that really did it for me were the singles, "Mr. Melody" with its great scatting and "Sophisticated Lady" with its punchy horns as well as "No Plans for the Future" with its perfectly interpreted heartache, "Can We Get Together Again," a "This Will Be" sound-alike and of course, a RE-reading of Billy Holiday's mezmerizing and heartwrenching, "Good Morning Heartache." This album would further cement what greatness would follow over the following 3 years in the form of two Platinum and three more Gold records.

If you are a fan of that Old School/Gospel-ish R&B of the mid to late 70's a la Aretha, you will not be disappointed with any of Cole's works from this era when music was music and Soul singers could really, really SANG. This album, her second, is a rare treasure from her very early catalog.