The Bastards had hoped to host author Will Friedwald this episode to discuss his book on Nat King Cole, but like a ramblin' rose his path wandered from ours and we ended up high and lonesome, talking ...

Tea For Two; Straighten Up and Fly Right; Jumpin? at Capitol; Sweet Lorraine; It?s Only a Paper Moon; Body and Soul; Riffamarole; Sweet Georgia Brown; The Way You Look Tonight; Airiness a la Nat; (Get ...

It’s the last night for the first African-American host of a nationally broadcast television show. Nat “King” Cole, widely regarded as one of the most suave, smooth, well-mannered entertainers of the ...

Twin sisters Casey and Timolin Cole were born into a life of unusual luxury in Hancock Park to a father nicknamed "King" whose success was so great that the historic Capitol Records building not far ...

Decades before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” became a Christmas classic, Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” ruled the airwaves. Born in Montgomery, Ala. in 1919, Nathaniel Adams ...