Nat "King" Cole - Straighten Up and Fly Right (1955)
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2019
- Nat King Cole adapted a variation on The Signyfying Monkey for his first major smash. Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights.
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"Straighten Up and Fly Right" is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and performed by The King Cole Trio. It was the trio's most popular single reaching number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for ten nonconsecutive weeks. The single also peaked at number nine on the pop charts.[1] "Straighten Up and Fly Right" also reached number one for six nonconsecutive weeks on the Most Played Jukebox Hillbilly Records.[2]
The song was based on a black folk tale that Cole's father had used as a theme for one of his sermons. In the tale, a buzzard takes different animals for a joy ride. When he gets hungry, he throws them off on a dive and eats them for dinner. A monkey who had observed this trick goes for a ride; he wraps his tail around the buzzard's neck and gives the buzzard a big surprise by nearly choking him to death.
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Cole’s amazing voice overshadowed the fact that he was a top level jazz pianist
Never knew he played the piano until I saw this video. Sigh...*
Absolutely. In the Papa Hines tradition. 👍
@@leeklein4199 He made his reputation as a pianist first. His records with Lester Young are gems.
@@brutusalwaysminded Everyone always talked about ART TATUM&OSCAR PETERSON!!
@@dwightlove3704 Erroll Garner and Teddy Wilson, too! But when I listen to Cole I hear more Hines than Fats Waller, who, like Cole recorded hits singing and playing little novelty numbers.
"The man whose color and skin was as smooth as his voice." The end.
One of my favourite Jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong... Helps me to calm myself ❤
One of my late great mother's favorite. We had to listen to Nat King Cole Christmas Album EVERY YEAR. When it got scratched, ma bought another one. :)
My dad loves him some Nat King Cole
A master doing his thing!
@@jdjking indeed
So does my dad too!
A gentleman with an angel voice, thanks for share this magical song.
I like nat king king !he is a man that had a god-given Talent with a velvet voice. I enjoyed hearing his songs when i was growing up. straighten up and fly right that's a good song too.
My grandfather sang this to me as a kid. Just died last week. I’ll miss him.
I'm sorry for your loss 😢.
I'm just now seeing this, but we know that we don't "get over" this loss. A tip of the hat to your grandfather as I listen.
Thank you so much
My mother's, her brother's & my 5th grade teacher Mr. Ramsey's love for
"Natty" dressed
Nat King Cole turned ME into a lover of his MUSIC & SWAG.
🎶Sraighten UP & Fly Right🎶
Remembering
Nathaniel "Nat" King Cole
(March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965)
[02/15/2020]
That's my prayer for a lot of people to straighten up and fly right 🥰❤️🖤💚
Love Nat King Cole, have a couple of his cds in my music collection.
I love the CD of his daughter Natalie singing along with her late dad's recordings. A must have, in my opinion. Now they both are gone, such a loss, RIP.
Absolutely, Positively, Fantastic!
Disgusted with introduction, such a great beauty of his talent.
Bless the world for Sir King Cole .Thankyou XXX
Love this song.
OMG, he's beautiful.
just incredible!!!!
I love Nat King Cole 👑 since my childhood 😍. Thank you for uploading.
I loved Nat
Love both version Cole's and the Andrew Sisters
I was there when he was everywhere.
Nat King Cole great musician So we’re The Mills Brothers velvet voices
This just awesome love me some Nat Cole's! 2019
My childhood..
Exactly mine .....through my Mother's records ( L.P ) and mainly the trio which was the acme for me so I have a jazzy foundation and grew as a guitar player .
Classic family fun
Wow, incredible sounds and film quality from 1955, real cool beat. Don't know why folks down vote this great film clip, but it's okay cause to still watched it.
I wrongly assumed this classic was made in the '40s
Dwight Love Nat King Cole wrote the song in 1943
@@Tangeriiiiiine22222 Thank you someone needs to make a biopic about this man he was attacked in the mid '60s in the south after singing a song of protest.I was told this by a friend of mine from Alabama.
Amazing
None better... Nat King Cole!
From 0:42, hearing his song made me want to really like jazz.And all these years since I first saw a tape of his music on "Motown 30",I didn't realize he was a great pianist
Montgomery born Nathaniel Adams Cole (March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965).
I love your songs I even hear them in my classroom and everybody starts dancing and the tunes even stuck in my song
My parent's favorite singer, along with Andy Williams. I have his "Grandes Exitos" album (all Spanish language hits) that was given to me as a birthday present in Hong Kong in 1989!
Nat King Cole was well-known before 1955. And the "Signifying Monkey" theme had been recorded by Willie Dixon at about the same time, and by Chuck Berry as "Jo Jo Gunne" a year later.
Nat King Cole was ulta cool. I bet that he was a cool baby too. 😆
Been searching for this song for so long lol finally heard it again yesterday and was able to Shazam it at an old folks home 😂 good music 🥰
what a mellow voice ... like honey
Talk that Talk Nat ..tell'em
❤🖤💚
👑🌟👑
Nat was also 'King Cool' !!!
Thanks 👍🏽
My Father used to play thi s when I was little: "Cool down papa don't you blow your top"
Nat's is the best version. Solid track
Grace and peace. I cringed the entire time because I know this man wrote, produced lots of works, but it was stolen, swindled, and written off as standard business practice simply due to his race and that time in history. His family will never truely get to know about his work that he had to sign over or to know about all his real accolades in music. However, we are greatful for what we got from him. Rest peacefully.
@@helenhighwater5313 Wait a minute are you minimizing the effect that racism played in their decision to swindle?
@@helenhighwater5313 I knew that you were minimizing .Racism was created by European Americans for the purpose of maintaining capitalism (Beacon's revolution. ) European Americans are the only ones who can keep or dethrone it. Never again accuse a POC for maintaining something we have no control over. Prime example America with the swipe of a pen can get rid of racism by outlawing its tenets and doing away with questionnaires that create racial categories in favor of cutural ones but they have not. So do not minimize racism because you haven't felt it. No one hate s "white people" because of their race. However people hate "white people" because they created the concept of white supremacy and physically forced it upon the world. No on is coming for all European Americans half of the Democrats are European American. However, we are coming to shut down white supremacist; get the facts straight.
@@ironstorm_actual Outstanding response.Malcolm X would be proud of you.
Racism is democratic categorization, which determines who is a “demos” and who is not a “demos” in a democracy, who rules and who is a serf. It maintains democratic mercantilism, the system whereby people are ruled through merchandise and monopolistic merchants, NOT capitalism.
Don't forget everyone didn't know he was being used ppl loved him probably 99 per cent white for his beautiful voice. My grandparents always has nat king Cole on and it reminds me of them.they never knew they just appreciated him sad but true
Thanks for this upload! That's Lester Young's brother, Lee Young, on drums.
Did not know that--so cool!
😎
This sounds like a smooth Jazzy rap!!
Cool, real cool
Så bra tack
I heard the Take 6 version didn't know this was the origin
👂🏾👀
One a de bes'...
DABS SQUADRON MOTTO 192ND FIGHTER WING LETS GOOOOOO
See 0:18 the sharks forcing themselves on someone else so they can profit..I know it's a movie but it's what they did back did.
Back then? It continues
Happens every day, except not to the Queen, Aretha Franklin.
Nat iking
Fallout made me come here. Classic
And they want to call Sinatra "King of Jazz/Cool" Sheeesh #GTFOH
#CultureVultures
Who said that??
I think you mean Dean Martin.
I could never see what anyone saw in Frank Sinatra. He was supported by the mob.
If they said swing, I would understand
See back then you have music encouraging you to "straighten up and fly right" what's been the recent years messages in music? Smh
I'd give you a go.
@ D J you are gorgeous!
Plagiarism
Get money
Amen.
They just don't make music like this anymore.
J cole always said king cole I wonder if they’re any correlation?
Fint tack
He was quite the smoker. Smoked cigarettes because he felt that would make his voice deeper. It caused him to die of lung cancer.
Where does this clip come from? Is the full version available? What is it's name?
@imagine07018 It comes from a movie called The Nat King Cole Story. It's on RUclips
@@sdh7091 Thanks so much.
@Jim Stark Thanks. God help those who get their history from the cinema. Actually, it was its absurdity that prompted me to ask about the clip's origin.
Probably the start of music company bad contracts.
You already know
Far from it, in the 1930s Billie Holiday performed with Count Basie’s orchestra but were not permitted to record together due to contracts
If you had to look up the word "Cool" in the dictionary, you'd see the definition: "Nat King Cole". If you searched for sophistication, it would say, see cool.
Fun Fact He met Gladys Knight when she was 6 yrs old.
Just watch Dolemite on Netflix this way different from Rudy Ray more
Hence the term "variation" in the videos description... 😏
Excellent. But for one glaring issue...
You can tell he was on a leash...he sold himself out...for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life? MATTHEW 16:26
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Great singer, good pianist. They made him water down his style to appeal to white audiences. You can still hear him in soft jazz singers, like Diana Krall, for instance. I like him, but I've always had the impression that he was on a leash, so to speak. He could do much more with his songs than what he was forced to do.
He sold himself. Smh
See how those white managers do what ever it took to get there hooks in black singers in the 50s we blame our selves to for thinking quick fame fortune an sign our lives away should been like Aretha an put every cent in her bossom an just deal with the IRS after each show lol