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Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. He was one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death.
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The man whose music
Would soothe the nerves of our guinea pig. The man who did the only Christmas album I can stomach. The man who was part of the Greek chorus in Cat Ballou. The real king, Nat "King" Cole.
Alan J said:
Nat King Cole
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Nat King Cole...
Adam answered:
Nat King Cole.
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965), known
professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came
to prominence as a leading jazz pianist.
Charlie replied:
Nat King Cole
Sally said:
Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles.
Nat appeared several times on the Ed Sullivan show in the 1950's, and did other prominent gigs as well. Finally, he landed his own show on TV circa 1957, and was quite good. I remember that show very well. Unfortunately, the haters could not stand that a (very) black man was on THEIR television, and dogged the sponsors to withdraw, and shut him down! That being said and done, I think Nat opened the door for so many Black entertainers, who followed him shortly thereafter - and are we glad the did!!
Nature Boy, who sang his way right into our hearts...
PS: @Adam, I about choked on my OJ after reading your comment, "'Not to be confused with "The Queen of Choot-spa', Michele 'My husband is not gay!' Bachmann" yesterday morning... Funny! :)
Marian answered:
Nat King Cole
MAM wrote:
Nat King Cole
The 'Unforgettabe' Nat King Cole
And, Joe S answered:
I'm gonna make an educated guess here and say Nat "King" Cole. It seems to make sense to me, but I'm not going to simply go with Nat "King" Cole with out checking the Googles first. So if you'll excuse me for just a minute, I'll be right back. Hang on, I'm gonna put you on hold. Be right back.
Hello, I'm back. Yes, it appears I am correct in my assumption. The answer is Nat King Cole, one of my favorite singers. One of my favorite songs is Ramblin' Rose. It came out the Summer of 1962 when I was 18.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Unforgettable'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Matthew Broderick, horse wrangler Erin Bolster and her horse Tonk, and Hunter Hayes.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Steven Wright and Monica Potter.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Parenthood'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Julie Bowen, Dave Salmoni, and Imelda May.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Samuel L. Jackson, Dylan McDermott, and Ra Ra Riot.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Roy Choi, Tiffany Schlain, and the Joy Formidable.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The R's', then a FRESH'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Rickles, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, and Peter Bjorn & John.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a FRESH'Ringer'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Cold Case', followed by another old 'Cold Case'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Gene Simmons', then another FRESH'Gene Simmons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Bulletproof', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Michael Sheen, Rhod Gilbert, Dame Shirley Bassey
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Black Pearl
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - Vampires in Venice
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 5 Disaster
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - 7 - Amy's Choice
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[9:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 3
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Jack's Waterfront
[12:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 3
[2:00 AM] Luther (2011) (60) - Episode 2
[3:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
[4:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', "Rachel Zoe Project', followed by a FRESH'Rachel Zoe Project', then a FRESH'Mad Fashion', followed by another FRESH'Mad Fashion'.
Comedy Central has '30 Rock', another '30 Rock', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Workaholics'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 10/5/11) is Hugh Jackman.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 9/29/11) is Mark Cuban.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by a FRESH'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', still another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whisker Wars - America's Beardsman
[6:30AM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[8:30AM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[10:45AM] Whisker Wars - The Beard Circuit
[11:15AM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[11:45AM] Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
[1:45PM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[3:45PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Robbery
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Therapy
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle - High School Play
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Bully
[8:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Old Mrs. Old
[8:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Krelboyne Girl
[9:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle - New Neighbors
[9:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - Hal Quits
[10:00PM] Onion News Network - Missing Baby Kate
[10:30PM] Arrested Development - Making a Stand
[11:00PM] Arrested Development - S.O.B.s
[11:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle - High School Play
[12:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle - Bully
[12:30AM] Onion News Network - Missing Baby Kate
[1:00AM] Onion News Network - Missing Baby Kate
[1:30AM] Shivers
[3:30AM] The Wicker Man
[5:30AM] Arrested Development - Making a Stand (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Gina Gershon attends the premiere of "My Week With Marilyn" during the 49th Annual New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Yoko Ono is launching a global campaign to raise money and awareness to help fight childhood hunger and poverty.
The 78-year-old widow of John Lennon is asking that on Nov. 1, at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT), people "take a moment to imagine a nourished and abundant world, where 'the world will live as one.'"
Hard Rock International and WhyHunger are partners with Ono for the campaign called "Imagine There's No Hunger." Various Hard Rock locations will host events on that day aimed at raising awareness.
Sunday would have been Lennon's 71st birthday, and Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of his song "Imagine," which Ono co-produced.
Actors Michelle Williams, left, and Eddie Redmayne attend the premiere of "My Week With Marilyn" during the 49th Annual New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Patrick Dempsey's bicycle run in western Maine to raise money for his cancer center has netted about $1 million.
The Sun Journal of Lewiston (http://bit.ly/oCj5ha ) reports that about 4,000 people took part in the third annual fundraising effort to benefit the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
Hundreds of cyclists pedaled between 10 and 100 miles along roads in Androscoggin and Oxford counties during the two-day event, which ended Sunday. The roads were lined with spectators cheering the cyclists.
Dempsey, a native of Buckfield, plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on TV's "Grey's Anatomy." He founded the Dempsey Center in 2008.
California will continue offering filmmakers a 25 percent tax credit under a program Gov. Jerry Brown extended on Sunday.
The California Motion Picture Tax Credit was created in 2009 and is meant to keep production jobs in California. It authorizes a total of $100 million in tax credits.
Members of the state Assembly passed the bill by a 74-1 vote on September 10. The state Senate passed it by a 34-2 vote the same day.
Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Democrat from Sylmar, sponsored the bill, which former Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger R-2 Passports) first signed.
Pumpkins decorated with the faces of bankers are displayed at the Occupy LA protest camp in Los Angeles, California October 9, 2011. The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month with a few people has expanded to protests across the country with marches and camps taking shape from Tampa, Florida to Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Protesters' messages range from anti-corporate sentiments to frustration with the financial system and politicians.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
A bronze sculpture of a young ballerina by French Impressionist Edgar Degas will lead Christie's New York auction of impressionist and modern art next month.
"Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" is being offered on Nov. 1 with a pre-sale estimate of $25 million to $35 million.
The 40-inch high work depicts the ballerina standing with her chin tilted up and hands clasped behind her back. She's wearing a satin hair ribbon and a fabric tutu.
The original was made of tinted wax. It had real hair and a fabric bodice.
A reporter for the American Spectator--who says he "infiltrated" a group of Washington, D.C., protesters "in order to mock and undermine" their cause in his magazine--claims he helped incite a riot at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday afternoon and was pepper-sprayed in the process.
After sneaking past the guard at the first entrance, I found myself trapped in a small entranceway outside the second interior door behind a muscle-bound left-wing fanatic and a heavyset guard. The fanatic shoved the guard and the guard shoved back, hard, sending this comrade -- and, by domino effect, me -- sprawling against the wall. After squeezing myself out from under him, I sprinted toward the door. Then I got hit.
As far as anyone knew I was part of this cause -- a cause that I had infiltrated the day before in order to mock and undermine in the pages of The American Spectator -- and I wasn't giving up before I had my story. Under a cloud of pepper spray I forced myself into the doors and sprinted blindly across the floor of the Air and Space Museum, drawing the attention of hundreds of stunned khaki-clad tourists (some of whom began snapping off disposable-camera portraits of me). I strained to glance behind me at the dozens of protesters I was sure were backing me up, and then I got hit again, this time with a cold realization: I was the only one who had made it through the doors. As two guards pointed at me and started running, I dodged a circle of gawking old housewives and bolted upstairs.
According to Howley, he was aggressive in the march on the museum because, "in the absence of ideological uniformity ... their only chance, as I saw it, was to push the envelope and go bold.
Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protest wear Guy Fawkes masks in Zuccotti Park in New York, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. The growing protest over class and wealth is entering its fourth week.
Photo by Andrew Burton
Country singer Hank Williams Jr (R-Fistula)., whose theme song was pulled from "Monday Night Football" after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the media on Monday with a topical song called "Keep the Change."
The track, which borrows its title and certain themes from another song released by Williams' daughter, Holly, in 2009, was offered as a free download on his website.
Williams sparked an uproar when he appeared on the Fox News Channel show "Fox & Friends" on October 3 and said Obama's pairing with Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Oompah-Loompah) in a June golf summit was "like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."
He also referred to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as "the enemy." That day, ESPN publicly rebuked Williams and dropped his "All My Rowdy Friends" song as the opening theme for its weekly "Monday Night Football" broadcast.
He subsequently issued a statement saying he was sorry for anyone who took offense, but the Disney-owned sports channel and Williams later said they were parting company after an association of more than 20 years. Williams had introduced "MNF" since 1991 on both ABC and ESPN.
Members of a coalition called "Stand up Chicago" march during a protest down Michigan Ave in Chicago October 10, 2011. Mounting anger over joblessness and income inequality snarled rush-hour traffic in downtown Chicago as hundreds of teachers, religious leaders, union workers and other protesters marched on Monday on Michigan Avenue and gathered outside the Chicago Art Institute where a U.S. futures industry trade group was holding an evening cocktail reception. Five separate "feeder marches" -- which converged into one giant march up Michigan Ave -- were inspired by, but not formally affiliated with, the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month.
Photo by Frank Polich
Brad Pitt might be gunning for a hit with his upcoming horror drama "World War Z," but the Hungarian government would prefer that he not do it with actual weapons.
According to Us Weekly, a SWAT team from Hungary's anti-terrorism department raided one of the film's production warehouses and confiscated 85 fully functional weapons -- the majority of them assault rifles.
According to the magazine, the weapons bore paperwork indicating that they were non-functional, and it's not yet known who is responsible for the snafu.
The guns were reportedly flown in via private plane Monday. An official for the Hungarian government told Us that they were wrapped in a parcel addressed "from a company to an individual."
In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, a model of the United States Capitol building is seen at Legoland Florida in Winter Haven, Fla. The second Legoland in North America, Legoland Florida is located in Winter Haven on the site of the old Cypress Gardens. Opening day is Oct. 15.
Photo by John Raoux
Actress
Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an Iranian opposition website reported Sunday.
Vafamehr was arrested in July after appearing in "My Tehran for Sale," which came under harsh criticism in conservative circles.
The film, produced in collaboration with Australia, tells the story of a young actress in Tehran whose theatre work is banned by the authorities. She is then forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically.
Vafamehr was released in late July after posting unspecified bail.
A model displays a creation by Nida Mahmood at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring Summer 2012 in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011.
Photo by Tsering Topgyal
A former Miss Iceland who met Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger and his girl friend in California was paid a $2 million reward for the tip that led to Bulger's arrest in June, the Boston Globe said on Sunday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid the reward money to Anna Bjornsdottir, a one-time model and Miss Iceland 1974 who had gotten to know Bulger's girl friend Catherine Greig after the two women both took a shared interest in a local stray cat while the fugitive couple hid out in Santa Monica.
But it was Bjornsdottir, the newspaper reported, who recognized Bulger in a news report this summer while she was back in Reykjavik and called authorities.
After the tip, Bulger and Greig were arrested in June without incident at their Santa Monica apartment building in June. Property records showed they moved into a two-bedroom unit in April 1998, playing $863 a month.
Two of the San Diego Zoo's youngest giraffes stay close to each other Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. The shorter of the giraffes was born on August 30, 2011, and is the second male calf born to his mother, Nicki. He weighed 162 pounds at birth and weighs in today at 244 pounds.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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