They also recorded " I'm Lost", a song written by Otis René, the owner of Excelsior. In 1941, the trio recorded "That Ain't Right" for Decca, followed the next year by "All for You" for Excelsior. As people heard Cole's vocal talent, they requested more vocal songs, and he obliged. In fact, there was a customer one night who demanded that he sing, but because it was a song Cole didn't know, he sang "Sweet Lorraine" instead. Cole said that this fabricated story sounded good, so he didn't argue with it. According to legend, his career as a vocalist started when a drunken bar patron demanded that he sing the song. Ĭole recorded " Sweet Lorraine" in 1940, and it became his first hit. They changed their name to the King Cole Trio before making radio transcriptions and recording for small labels. They called themselves the King Cole Swingsters after the nursery rhyme in which " Old King Cole was a merry old soul".
When a club owner asked him to form a band, he hired bassist Wesley Prince and guitarist Oscar Moore. He led a big band, then found work playing piano in nightclubs. After the show ended in Los Angeles, Cole and Nadine settled there while he looked for work. In 1937, he married Nadine Robinson, who was a member of the cast. They performed in a revival of the musical Shuffle Along. After his brother Eddie, a bassist, came home from touring with Noble Sissle, they formed a sextet and recorded two singles for Decca in 1936 as Eddie Cole's Swingsters. When he was 15, Cole dropped out of high school to pursue a music career.
Nat King Cole, Paramount Theater, New York City, November 1946
He would sneak out of the house to visit clubs, sitting outside to hear Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, and Jimmie Noone. He participated in Walter Dyett's music program at DuSable High School. The Cole family moved to the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, where he attended Wendell Phillips Academy High School, the school Sam Cooke attended a few years later. As a youth, he joined the news delivery boys' " Bud Billiken Club" band for The Chicago Defender. He began formal lessons at 12, learning jazz, gospel, and classical music on piano "from Johann Sebastian Bach to Sergei Rachmaninoff". His first performance was " Yes! We Have No Bananas" at the age of four. Ĭole learned to play the organ from his mother, Perlina Coles, the church organist. When Nat King Cole was four years old, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where his father, Edward Coles, became a Baptist minister. Each of the Cole brothers pursued careers in music. Nathaniel Adams Coles was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 17, 1919.
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