Penthouse Serenade
Penthouse Serenade is an instrumental jazz quartet album by Nat King Cole. It was released initially as a 10-inch LP in September, 1952, on Capitol Records. An expanded (12 track) version was reissued in 1955 and a 19 track version (13-19 being vocal tracks) was reissued in 1998.
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Released | September, 1952 | |||
Recorded | 1951 - 1952 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 23:05 (10" LP Release - 1952)
33:38 (12" LP Release - 1955) 50:13 (CD Release - 1998) | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Lee Gillette | |||
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Track listing
original 1952 10 inch LP album release:
- "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" (Val Burton, Will Jason) – 3:06
- "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:03
- "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 2:43
- "Once in a Blue Moon" (Anne Caldwell, Jerome Kern based on Rubenstein's Melody In F) – 2:55
- "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:03
- "Down by the Old Mill Stream" (Tell Taylor) – 2:18
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:11
- "Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams) – 2:46
4 tracks added for the 1955 12 inch LP re-issue:
- "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 2:57
- "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:46
- "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:02
- "Little Girl" (Francis Henry, Harry Hyde) – 1:48
additional bonus tracks added to later 1998 CD release:
- "I Surrender Dear" (Barris, Clifford) (alt. take) – 3:00
- "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:11
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard Whiting) – 1:53
- "Too Young" (Sylvia Dee, Sidney Lippman) – 2:32
- "That's My Girl" (Duke Ellington, Barbara Tobias) – 1:45
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:09
- "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) – 3:05
Personnel
- Nat King Cole - piano, vocals
- John Collins - guitar
- Jack Costanzo - bongos, congas
- Charlie Harris Bass
- Norris "Bunny" Shawker - drums
- Lee Young - drums[1]
- Production
- Lee Gillette - producer
- Michael Cuscuna - reissue producer
- Will Friedwald - liner notes
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