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Unforgettable: With Love by Natalie Cole

Unforgettable: With Love

Release Date: 6/11/1991

Recording Date: 9/1991

Tracks: 22

Length: 01:12:47 Hrs

Label: Elektra

Type: CD,CS

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Urban, Vocal, Adult Contemporary, American Popular Song, Vocals

Album Tracks (22)

Song Title
Length
1.
The Very Thought of You
04:16
2.
It's Only a Paper Moon
03:25
3.
Route 66
03:01
4.
Mona Lisa
03:46
5.
L-O-V-E
02:31
6.
This Can't Be Love
02:14
7.
Smile
03:38
8.
Lush Life
04:20
9.
That Sunday, That Summer
03:31
10.
Orange Colored Sky
02:27
11.
Medley: For Sentimental Reasons/Tenderly/Autumn Leaves
07:32
12.
Straighten up and Fly Right
02:40
13.
Avalon
01:51
14.
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
02:34
15.
Too Young
04:32
16.
Nature Boy
03:24
17.
Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
03:25
18.
Almost Like Being in Love
02:11
19.
Thou Swell
01:50
20.
Non Dimenticar
02:57
21.
Love Is Here to Stay
03:29
22.
Unforgettable
03:28

What the Critics Say

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, Rovi

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