Natalie Cole Unforgettable: With Love Album Review, Songs, Rating

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Unforgettable: With Love
Release Date: 1991 09 10
Running Time: 72:47
Label: Elektra
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A major change of direction for Natalie Cole, Unforgettable found the singer abandoning the type of R&B/pop she'd been recording since 1975 in favor of jazz-influenced pre-rock pop along the lines of Nat King Cole's music. It was a surprising risk that paid off handsomely -- both commercially and artistically. Naysayers who thought that so radical a change would be commercial suicide were proven wrong when the outstanding Unforgettable sold a shocking five million units. Quite clearly, this was an album Cole was dying to make. Paying tribute to her late father on "Mona Lisa," "Nature Boy," "Route 66," and other gems that had been major hits for him in the 1940s and early '50s, the 41-year-old Cole sounds more inspired than she had in well over a decade. On the title song, overdubbing was used to make it sound as though she were singing a duet with her father -- dishonest perhaps, but certainly enjoyable. Thankfully, standards and pre-rock pop turned out to be a primary direction for Cole, who was a baby when the title song became a hit for her father in 1951. Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Very Thought of You	Noble	4:16
2	It's Only a Paper Moon	Harburg, Arlen, Rose	3:25
3	Route 66	Troup	3:01
4	Mona Lisa	Evans, Livingston	3:46
5	L-O-V-E	Gabler, Kaempfert	2:31
6	This Can't Be Love	Rodgers, Hart	2:14
7	Smile	Chaplin, Parsons, Turner	3:38
8	Lush Life	Strayhorn	4:20
9	That Sunday, That Summer	Weiss, Sherman	3:31
10	Orange Colored Sky	Delugg, Stein	2:27
11	Medley: For Sentimental Reasons/Tenderly/Autumn Leaves	Mercer, Watson, Lawrence, Kosma, Gross, Prevert, Best	7:32
12	Straighten up and Fly Right	Mills, Cole	2:40
13	Avalon	Jolson, Rose, DeSylva	1:51
14	Don't Get Around Much Anymore	Russell, Ellington	2:34
15	Too Young	Dee, Lippman	4:32
16	Nature Boy	Ahbez	3:24
17	Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup	Sosenko	3:25
18	Almost Like Being in Love	Lerner, Loewe	2:11
19	Thou Swell	Hart, Rodgers	1:50
20	Non Dimenticar	Galdieri, Dobbins, Redi	2:57
21	Love Is Here to Stay	Gershwin, Gershwin	3:29
22	Unforgettable	Gordon	3:28

Other Releases:

Unforgettable: With Love [Special Edition]
Release Date: 1991
Label: Elektra Entertainment

Unforgettable [Video]
Release Date: 1991
Label: Elektra Entertainment

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