unknown

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 18 in 1957
-previously charted in 1947 by vaughn monroe (#1)
-previously charted in 1948 by buddy clark (#5); bing crosby (#10); and jimmy
-dorsey (also #10)
-words and music by bob russell and carl sigman


Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part

Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row
This is your moment, girl
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show

Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!

<instrumental interlude>
Whirl ballerina
<instrumental interlude>

Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance

Dance

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 79 in 1957
-words by mitchell parish and music by hoagy carmichael originally written as
-"star dust" in 1929.
-charted in 1930 by irving mills (#20)
-charted in 1931 by isham jones (#1), bing crosby (#5), louis armstrong (#16)
Wayne king (#17), and lee sims (#20).
-charted in 1935 by jimmie lunceford (#10).
-charted in 1936 by benny goodman (#2) and tommy dorsey (#8).
-charted in 1939 by sammy kaye (#16).
-charted in 1941 by artie shaw (#2), tommy dorsey (#7), and glenn miller (#20).
-charted in 1943 by baron elliot (#18) and tommy dorsey (#23).
-charted in 1957 by billy ward and his dominoes featuring jackie wilson (#12).
-charted in 1962 by frank sinatra (#98)
-charted in 1964 by nino temple and april stevens (#32).


And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by


Sometimes i wonder why i spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And i am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though i dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain

(charles singleton)


If you love her
And she makes one mistake,
Please don't leave her
It would make your heart ache.
Take a fool's advice,
Don't pay the price i had to pay.


If you need her
But you're letting her go,
Please don't do it
You'll be sorry, i know.
Take a fool's advice,
Don't pay the price i had to pay.


Truly,
She's caused you to doubt her,
Truly,
She's broken the rules.
But life's not worth living without her,
So listen to the wisdom of a fool.


Think it over
And forgive her this time,
I was foolish
I lost the love that was mine.
Take a fool's advice,
Don't pay the price i had to pay.


Take a fool's advice,
Don't pay the price i had to pay.

(jerome kern, dorothy fields)


Pick yourself up...
Take a deep breath...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


Nothing's impossible, i have found
For when my chin is on the ground.
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off
And start all over again.


Don't lose your confidence
If you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


Work like a soul inspired
Until the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.


Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath...
Pick yourself up...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.


~interlude~


Work like a soul inspired
Till the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.


Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath...
Pick yourself up...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.

(nathaniel cole, charlotte hawkins)


To whom it may concern,
You've found another love, i know
To whom it may concern,
My heart won't ever let you go.


You tore my heart apart
When you found somebody new,
But you found out that your heart
Could be broken, too.


So to whom it may concern,
You've learned that heartache has no pride,
Pretending unconcerned won't stop the tears
You try to hide.


And when you're all alone
With just a memory,
That's when i'll bet you'll learn
The one who's most concerned is me.


~interlude~


And when you're all alone
With just a memory,
That's when i'll bet you'll learn
The one who's most concerned
...is me.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 12 in 1963
-words and music by george david weiss and joe sherman


(if i had to choose just one day)

If i had to choose just one day
To last my whole life through
It would surely be that sunday
The day that i met you

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills
Summer was a-coming in but fast
Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills
Nodding all together, i could almost hear them whisper
"go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her"

If i had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that sunday, that summer

(newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills)
(summer was a-comin' in but fast)
(lots of daffodils were showin' off their skills)
(nodding all together, i could almost hear them whisper)
("go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her")

If i had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that sunday, that summer

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 7 in 1955
-words and music by anna sosenko in 1936
-introduced in the film "love and hisses" by hildegarde
-charted by hildegarde at # 21 in 1943


Darling, je vous aime beaucoup
Je ne sais pas what to do
You know you've completely
Stolen my heart

Morning, noon and night-time too
Toujours, wondering what to do
That's the way i've felt
Right from the start

Ah, cherie!
My love for you is tr

(dorothy wayne, ray rasch)


He who hesitates
When it comes to love
He will never know
The wonder of it all.
A kiss -- a sigh,
You'll never know
If you don't try.


He who hesitates
When her eyes say yes,
Just how much you've missed
You will never guess.


Your chance
Goes by
And it's too late
To wonder why.


Dreams cannot replace
The wonder of her smile.
The warmth of her embrace,
Don't let it
Escape you.


When you fall in love
And you feel the glow,
Take her in your arms
Never let her go.
Don't be
The one
To hesitate with love.


~interlude~


A kiss -- a smile
You'll never know
If you don't try.


When you fall in love
And you feel the glow,
Take her in your arms
Never let her go.
Don't be
The one
To hesitate...


Don't be
The one
Who hesitates...


Don't be
The one
Who hesitates...
With love.

-artist: nat king cole
-words and music by ray noble
-charted in 1934 by ray noble (#1) and bing crosby (#11)
-charted in 1944 by vaughn monroe (#19)
-sung by doris day in the 1950 film "man with a horn"
-charted in 1961 by little willie john (#61)
-charted in 1964 by rick nelson (#26)


The very thought of you and i forget to do
The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do
I'm living in a kind of daydream
I'm happy as a king
And foolish though it may seem
To me that's everything

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you
You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you
I see your face in every flower
Your eyes in stars above
It's just the thought of you
The very thought of you, my love

<instrumental interlude>

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you
You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you
I see your face in every flower
Your eyes in stars above
It's just the thought of you
The very thought of you, my love

(charles singleton, rose marie mccoy)


You are my personal possession,
You're mine alone
You are my personal possession,
My very own.


Nobody else must kiss you but me,
Nobody else must miss you but me.
Nobody must dream of you but me,
And nobody else must love you but me.


You're my personal possession,
That's what you are.
You're my magnificent obsession,
My lucky star.


I own you exclusively,
Darling, you belong to me.
You're my personal possession,
My precious love!


(background vocals:)
(nobody else must kiss you but me,
Nobody else must miss you but me.
Nobody must dream of you but me)


(nat:)
And nobody else must love you but me.


You're my personal possession,
That's what you are.
You're my magnificent obsession,
My lucky star.


I own you exclusively,
Darling, you belong to me.
You're my personal possession,
My precious love!

(kane/ecton)


Goodbye, lonely heartache,
Farewell, bitter tears.
I'm leaving forever,
And not just for years.


You're home again, darling,
And i love you so.
But you love another,
That's why i must go.


Down the road to nowhere,
I'll wander my lonely days through.
Down the road to nowhere,
I'm nowhere at all without you.


Our favorite places
That made moments fly
Just can't be forgotten,
But still i must try.


The dance where i met you
When you walked my way,
I cry when i pass them
So i'll drift away.


Down the road to nowhere,
I'll wander my lonely days through.
Down the road to nowhere,
I'm nowhere at all without you...
I'm nowhere at all without you...
I'm nowhere at all without you.

-artist: nat king cole
-charted in 1954 by doris day (#3), denise lor (#8), connee boswell (#10);
-the wright brothers (#25), and dinah shore (#28).
-charted in 1959 by kitty kallen (#34)
-words and music by jimmie crane, al jacobs, and jimmy brewster


If i give my heart to you
Will you handle it with care?
Will you always treat me tenderly?
And in every way be fair?

If i give my heart to you
Will you give me all your love?
Will you swear that you'll be true to me?
By the light that shines above?

And will you sigh with me when i'm sad?
Smile with me when i'm glad?
And always be as you are with me tonight?

Think it over and be sure
Please don't answer till you do
When you promise all these things to me
Then i'll give my heart to you

<instrumental interlude>

Think it over and be sure
Please don't answer till you do
When you promise all these things to me
Then i'll give my heart to you

(cy coleman, joseph allen mccarthy)


I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
Laugh, and forget this affair
Guess i was foolish
To care.


So i'm gonna dance you right out of my dreams,
Try to be carefree and gay
I guess i'll learn to play
The part.


'cause when our friends begin that
Heartless rumor,
I know i'll really need my
Sense of humor.


I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
Make it a beautiful joke.
No one will know you broke
My heart.


But if i find you and i
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then i'm gonna laugh so hard,
I'll cry.


~interlude~




But if i find you and i
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then i'm gonna laugh so hard...
I'll cry.

(and i'll be there at no particular time)
(pyle/robinson/terker)


Baby, we two can't get along,
I'm never right, you're never wrong.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


Baby, it just ain't common sense
Mixin' up love with arguments.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


I'm all fed up on stormy weather,
I'm going where it's june.
Here's hopin' i see you never
'cause if i do, that will be too soon.


Now that i've put my heart on ice,
Missing you will seem paradise.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


~interlude~


You'd better bring along your glasses
In case i'm hard to find,
You'll wish you could see before you
As clearly as you can see behind.


You can turn back in retropect
Of the times you stuck out your neck.
So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time.


All we do is make up
Then quarrel all over again,
But this is it ~ the breakup
From now on, you knew me when...


So meet me at no special place,
And i'll be there at no particular time!

(edward "duke" ellington, bob russell)


Do nothing till you hear from me,
Pay no attention to what's said.
Why people tear the seams of anyone's dreams
Is over my head.


Do nothing till you hear from me,
At least consider our romance.
If you should take the words of others you've heard,
I haven't a chance.


True, i've been seen with someone new,
But does that mean that i've been untrue?
When we're apart,
The words in my heart
Reveal how i feel about you.


Some kiss may cloud my memories,
And other arms may hold a thrill,
But please, do nothing till you hear it from me--
And you never will.


~interlude~


Some kiss may cloud my memories,
And other arms may hold a thrill,
But please, do nothing till you hear it from me--
And you never will.

(lewis/weissman/lange)


Is it better
To have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
As my lonely teardrops fall.


Is it better
To have kissed and lost,
Than never to have felt the glow?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
Then why do i miss you so?


Only those who've lost at love
Would know how a heart can cry.
And they would know the meaning of
Hearing a last goodbye.


Is it better
To have loved and lost,
Than never had my dream come true?
I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
'cause i'm still in love with you.


I wonder (i wonder),
I wonder (i wonder),
'cause i'm still in love with you.

(b. davis, d. wolf)


Gone and got the blues in paris,
Paris blues called azure-te.
How can i be blue in paris?
Easy, 'cause you're far away.
Can't lose this blues,
This azure-te.


Moments, springtime, eiffel tower,
Funny taxes, kids at play.
Paris without you is lonesome,
Yearning more and more each day.
Can't lose this blues,
This azure-te.


~interlude~


If you knew how much i need you,
You'd come back to me to stay.
Having you with me in paris
Really is the only way
To lose this blues,
This azure-te.


Can't lose this blues,
This azure-te.

-artist: nat king cole
-words and music by benny davis and abner silver
-charted at # 19 in 1958 by joni james


There goes my heart, there goes the one i love
There goes the girl i wasn't worthy of
There goes my happiness, it couldn't be
There goes somebody else in place of me

Goodbye romance, it couldn't last somehow
I had my chance but it's all over now
I never thought that she could pass me by
There goes my heart and here am i

<instrumental interlude>

I never thought that she could pass me by
There goes my heart and here am i

(joe ricardel, redd evans)


I don't want french fried potatoes,
Red ripe tomatoes,
I'm never satisfied.
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


I don't want pork chops and bacon,
That won't awaken
My appetite inside.
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


A fella really got to eat
And a fella should eat right.
Five will get you ten
I'm gonna feed myself right tonight.


I don't want fish cakes and rye bread,
You heard what i said.
Waiter, please serve mine fried
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


~interlude~




A fella really got to eat
And a fella should eat right.
Five will get you ten
I'm gonna feed myself right tonight.


I don't want fish cakes and rye bread,
You heard what i said.
Waiter, please serve mine fried
I want the frim fram sauce with the ausen fay
With chafafa on the side.


(now if you don't have it, just bring me a check for the water!)

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 2 in 1962
-words and music by noel sherman and joe sherman


Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why you ramble, no one knows
Wild and wind-blown, that's how you've grown
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

Ramble on, ramble on
When your ramblin' days are gone
Who will love you with a love true
When your ramblin' days are through?

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why i want you, heaven knows
Though i love you with a love true
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

Spoken
<one more time, everybody, now>

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose
Why i want you, heaven knows
Though i love you with a love true
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?

(alan brandt, bob haymes)

I can only give you love that lasts forever
And a promise to be near each time you call,
And the only heart i own
For you and you alone,
That's all, that's all.


I can only give you country walks in springtime
And a hand to hold when leaves begin to fall,
And a love whose burning light
Will warm the winter night,
That's all, that's all.


There are those, i am sure, that have told you
They would give you the world for a toy.
All i have are these arms to enfold you
And a love time can never destroy.


If you're wondering what i'm asking in return, dear,
You'll be glad to know that my demands are small.
Say it's me that you'll adore
For now and ever more,
That's all, that's all.


~interlude~


If you're wondering what i'm asking in return, dear,
You'll be glad to know that my demands are small.
Say it's me that you'll adore
For now and ever more,
That's all...that's all.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 23 in 1955
-words and music by hal hester and barry parker


If i find peace of mind in the sand and the sea
There's a hope in my heart that you'll soon be with me
There's a prayer that i share with the sand and the sea
And it cries "come to me, come to me."

As my eyes search the skies from the edge of the shore
You are here in my arms for a moment or more
Then a tear rushes down to the sand and the sea
And it cries "come to me, come to me."

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time i'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time i'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

-artist: nat king cole
-words by sam m. lewis and music by j. fred coots
-charted in 1934 by hal kemp (#3) and isham jones (#16)
-charted in 1962 by dinah washington (#88)


For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won't say "good night" until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it

For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

<instrumental interlude>

So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 16 in 1952
-words by sammy cahn and music by nicholas brodszky
-title song sung by mario lanza in the film also starring doretta morrow and james
-whitmore
-lanza charted his single at # 7 in 1952


Because you're mine
The brightest star i see
Looks down, my love, and envies me
Because you're mine, because you're mine

Because you're mine
The breeze that hurries by
Becomes a melody and why?
Because you're mine, because you're mine

I only know for as long as i may live
I'll only live for the kiss that you alone may give me

And when we kiss
That isn't thunder, dear
It's only my poor heart you hear and its applause
Because you're mine

<instrumental interlude>

I only know for as long as i may live
I'll only live for the kiss that you alone may give me

And when we kiss
That isn't thunder, dear
It's only my poor heart you hear and its applause
Because you're mine

- artist: nat king cole (whose recording, if released
As a single, did not chart)
- doris day's version hit #20 in 1952 and
The lettermen's went to # 7 in 1962
- words and music by edward heyman and victor young


When i fall in love it will be forever
Or i'll never fall in love
In a restless world like this is
Love is ended before it's begun
And too many moonlight kisses
Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When i give my heart it will be completely
Or i'll never give my heart
And the moment i can feel that you feel that way too
Is when i fall in love with you.

<instrumental interlude first two lines>

And the moment i can feel that you feel that way too
Is when i fall in love with you.

(m. gordon, h. revel)


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
It's just a void, an empty space,
When you are not in my embrace.


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
The moment that you go away,
There is no night, there is no day.


The clock stops ticking,
The world stops turning.
Everything stops
But that flame in my heart
That keeps burning...burning...


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
No matter i may pretend,
I know that you alone can end
The ache in my heart,
The call of my arms...
The lull in my life.

(louis jordan, timmie rodgers)


Knock me a kiss, you'll never miss
When i'm ready to go.
But if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


Squeeze me a squoze in these fine clothes,
Mmmm...i love you so.
But if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


When i ask for a date, the answer is no.
You don't know what you're saying.
Don't you know the war's on,
Everything is rationed,
How 'bout that jive, keep me alive?


Baby, let bygones be bygones,
'cause men are scarce as nylons.
And if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no!


~interlude~


Baby, let bygones be bygones,
'cause men are scarce as nylons.
And if you can't smile and say yes,
Please don't cry and say no, no, no, baby
Please don't cry and say no.

(van heusen, cahn, fuller)


What good is a dream,
A plan or a scheme,
The rainbow that you pursue?
It's everything... and it's nothing
Without someone to tell it to.


How eager you are
To get to that star,
But after the journey's through,
You're only a lonely dreamer
Without someone to tell it to.


There'll be blue days,
Hard to get through days,
Days when you'll just want to die.
Soon you're older,
And the world's colder,
When there's no shoulder to cry on.


Castles in air
Are empty and bare
With no one to share the view.
The moonlight is merely moonlight,
There's no magic in "i love you"
Without someone
Someone to tell it to.


~interlude~


The moonlight is merely moonlight,
There's no magic in "i love you"
Without someone
Someone to tell it to.

-artist: nat king cole
-words by ben raleigh and music by bernie wayne
-charted in 1946 by sammy kaye (#3), dinah shore (also #3), andy russell (#4),
-teddy walters (also #4), and the merry macs (#9).
-charted in 1953 at # 22 by the four aces


The crowd sees me out dancing
Carefree and romancing
Happy with my someone new
I'm laughing on the outside
Crying on the inside
'cause i'm still in love with you

They see me night and daytime
Having such a gay time
They don't know what i go through
I'm laughing on the outside
Crying on the inside
'cause i'm still in love with you

No one knows it's just a pose
Pretending i'm glad we're apart
And when i cry, my eyes are dry
The tears are in my heart

My darling, can't we make up?
Ever since our breakup
Make believe is all i do
I'm laughing on the outside
Crying on the inside
'cause i'm still in love

I am still in love with you

- words by harold adamson and leo mccarey, music by harry warren

Our love affair is a wondrous thing
That we'll rejoice in remembering
Our love was born with our first embrace
And a page was torn out of time and space

Our love affair, may it always be
A flame to burn through eternity
So take my hand with a fervent prayer
That we may live and we may share
A love affair to remember

(cole porter)


Miss otis regrets
She's unable to lunch today.


Madam...
Miss otis regrets
She's unable to lunch today.


She is sorry to be delayed,
But last evening down at lover's lane, she strayed.
Madam...
Miss otis regrets
She's unable to lunch today.


~interlude~


When she woke from her dream
And found that her love had gone,
Madam...
She ran to the man
Who had led her so far astray.


And from under her velvet gown,
She drew a gun and shot her lover down.
Madam...
Miss otis regrets
She's unable to lunch today.


Then the mob came and got her
And dragged her from the jail.
Madam...
They strung her upon
A willow across the way.


And the moment before she died,
She lifted up her lovely head and cried.
Madam...
Miss otis regrets
She's unable to lunch today.

(oliveiro/ortolani/ciorciolini/newell)


More
Than the greatest love the world
Has known,


This
Is the love i'll give to you
Alone.


More
Than the simple words
I've tried to say,
I'll only live to love you
More each day.


More than you'll ever know,
My arms long to hold you so.
My life will be in your keepin',
Wakin'... sleepin'... laughin'...weepin'.


Longer
Than always is a long, long time,
But far beyond forever,
You'll be mine.
I know i've never lived before,
And my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more.




I know i've never lived before,
And my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more.

(jimmy van heusen, mack david)


It wasn't my intention to eavesdrop,
But there a guy sat, two stools away,
And you could tell the bartender knew him
And that he'd been there some other day.
And while i sipped my libation,
I overheard his conversation...


"re---member
How i'd walk in,
What excitement there would be?
Never less than twenty people,
I had lots of friends, you see.


"i gave the party, i was the host.
Everyone loved me,
I was the most.


"champagne and plenty of it,
Real imported caviar,
And the hat check girl got fifty
Just for lighting my cigar.


"i kept 'em laughin', jokes by the yard.
Everyone loved me,
I was a card.


"and i had a girl,
A beautiful girl,
Her whole world, i think, consisted of mink
And diamonds and pearls.


"because she was mine,
I'd glitter and shine,
And life was a ball, and wasn't it all
So cozy 'n fine?


"but nothing lasts forever,
And the deepest well runs dry.
Just 'cause i've stopped rolling sevens
Doesn't mean i have to cry.


"i'll take that nightcap,
One more won't show.
And incidentally...maybe you know...
Where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"


"where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"

(b. halley, e. j. anton)


Dear lonely hearts...
I'm-a writing to you
You said you could help
People looking for love.


I've been so lonely,
I don't know what to do.
And that is why
I'm writing this letter to you.


(it's no use livin')
When you're alone.
Please help me find
A love of my own.


If you know someone,
Please tell me who.
Dear lonely hearts...
I'd be so grateful to you
(so grateful to you).


(she don't have to have money)
She don't have to have money,
(she don't have to be a queen)
She don't have to be a queen.
(as long as she loves me)
As long as she loves me,
(that's the important thing)
That's the important thing.


'cause i'm gonna love her,
(i'm gonna love her)
I'll always be true .
(i'll always be true)
Dear lonely hearts,
Oh, please,
See what you can do.
(see what you can do)


I guess that's all,
(i guess that's all)
I'm gonna close for now.
(i'm gonna close for now)
But try to find
(please try to find)
Somebody, somehow.
(somebody, somehow)


If you know someone,
Please tell me who.
Dear lonely hearts...
I'd be so grateful
To you.
(grateful to you)

(jay livingston, raymond evans)




You promised me you'd come back,
I promised to wait.
But i was a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late.


Too many long nights alone,
Not even a date.
So i got a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late.


You never did write, you never did call.
When i had the blues, you were havin' a ball.
You thought that i'd be here to run to,
Now i'm gonna do to you what i've been done to.


Too bad about you, my friend,
It could've been great.
But i was a little too lonely,
And now you're a little too late.


~interlude~


You never did write, you never did call.
When i had the blues, you were havin' a ball.
You thought that i'd be here to run to,
Now i'm gonna do to you what i've been done to.


Too bad about you, my friend,
It could've been great.
But i got a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late!

(pete johnson, joe turner)


It was early one monday mornin',
And i was on my way to school.
It was early one monday mornin',
When i was on my way to school.
That was the mornin'
When i broke my mother's rule.


I've been in love with you, baby,
Before i learned to call your name.
I've been in love with you, baby,
Before i learned to call your name.
Now you're in love with someone else
I know that's gonna drive me insane!


~interlude~


Ooh wee baby,
You sure look good to me.
Ooh wee baby,
You sure look good to me.
Please tell me, pretty mama
Who can your great new lover be?

(words by lorenz hart, music by richard rodgers)
This lyrics are like performed by natalie cole

Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand
Wouldst kiss me pretty? wouldst hold my hand?
Both thine eyes are cute too, what they do to me
Hear me holler, i choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee

I'd feel so rich in a hut for two
Two rooms and kitchen i'm sure would do
Give me just a plot of, not a lot of land
And thou swell, thou witty, thou grand

(strachey/marvell/ link)


A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places,
And still my heart has wings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairground's painted swings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


You came, you saw,
You conquered me.
When you did that to me,
I knew somehow this had to be.


The winds of march that made my heart a dancer,
A telephone that rings,
And who's to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


The first daffodil and long excited cables,
And candle lights on little corner tables,
And still my heart has wings...
These foolish things remind me of you.


The park at evening when the bell has sounded,
The 'ile-de-france' with all the gulls around it,
The beauty that is spring's...
These foolish things remind me of you.


How strange, how sweet
To find you still,
These things are dear to me,
They seem to bring you near to me.


The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,
Silk stockings tossed aside, dance invitations.
Oh, how the ghost of you clings!
These foolish things remind me of you...


These foolish things remind me of you.

-artists: nat king cole and stubby kaye
-words by mack david and music by jerry livingston
-title song from the 1965 film starring jane fonda, lee marvin (who won an oscar
-for his dual role as a drunken lawman and his counterpart, outlaw kid sheleen)
-cole and kaye, as strolling minstrels, functioned as a greek chorus, commenting
-on the action (?)


Well now friends just lend an ear
For you're now about to hear
The ballad of cat ballou
It's a song that's newly made
And professus and the shade
And the sunrise kid are singin' it for you

Cat ballou, cat ballou

It's a hangin' day in wolf city, wyomin'
Wolf city, wyomin', eighteen ninety four
They're gonna drop cat ballou
Through the gallows floor

She killed a man in wolf city, wyomin'
Wolf city, wyomin', killed a man it's true
And that is why they're a-hangin'
Hangin' cat ballou

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(i say she's the devil)
(she's mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through

With her outlaw band they're now tellin' a story
Now tellin' a story how she rode the plain
The wildest gal in the we-est
Since calamity jane

And today's the day that she's goin' to glory
She's goin' to glory for the way she sinned
They'll be a-speedin' her soul
On a wayward wind

She has the smile of an angel
(fights like the devil)
The eyes of an angel
(bites like the devil)
The face of an angel
(i say she's the devil)
(she's mean and evil through and through)

Cat ballou (cat ballou)
Cat ball-ou-ou-ou (cat ballou)
She's mean and evil through and through

Cat ballou, cat ball-ou-ou-ou
She's mean and evil through and through

(bart howard)


Poets often use many words
To say a simple thing.
It takes thought and time amd rhyme
To make a poem sing.


With music and words i've been playing
For you, i have written a song.
To be sure that you'll know what i'm saying,
I'll translate as i go along...


Fly me to the moon,
And let me play among the stars.
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and mars.


In other words,
Hold my hand.
In other words,
Darling, kiss me.


Fill my heart with song,
And let me sing forever more.
You are all i long for,
All i worship and adore.


In other words,
Please be true.
In other words,
I love you.


~interlude~


Fill my heart with song,
And let sing forever more.
You are all i long for,
All i worship and adore.


In other words
Please be true.
In other words,
I love you.

(lyrics by bob russel, music by duke ellington)
This lyrics are like performed by natalie cole

Missed the saturday dance
Heard they crowded the floor
Couldn't bear it without you
Don't get around much anymore

Thought i'd visit the club
Got as far as the door
They'd have asked me about you
Don't get around much anymore

Darling, i guess my mind's more at ease
But nevertheless, why stir up memories

Been invited on dates
Might have gone but what for
Awfully different without you
Don't get around much anymore

(wayne/morris)


(i don't want to see tomorrow,
Unless i see it with you.)


Tomorrow, so they say
Will be a lovely day,
A bright new sun will suddenly break through,
But i don't want to see tomorrow,
Unless i see it with you.


Tomorrow, so i hear
The clouds will disappear,
The door to happiness will open wide.
But i don't want to see tomorrow,
Unless you're there by my side.


Don't want to walk alone,
Don't want to dream alone,
Just want you close to my heart.
For if your love is gone,
How can i face the dawn of
Sunday, or monday?
I just can't face one day...


Until you say you're mine,
Oh, darling, please be mine
And make each bright tomorrow young and new.
But i don't want to face tomorrow
Unless i see it with you.


(tomorrow, so i hear
The clouds will disappear,
The door to happiness will open wide.)
But i don't want to see tomorrow,
Unless i see it with you.

Artist nat king cole (peak billboard position # 81 in 1964-seven months after the
Beatles hit the ed sullivan show)
Words by milt gabler and music by bert kaempfert

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one i see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that i can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you

<trumpet instrumental>

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one i see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that i can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you

(v. youmans, i. caesar)


Sometimes i'm happy,
Sometimes i'm blue.
My disposition
Depends on you.


I never mind
The rain from the sky
If i can find
The sun in your eyes.


Sometimes i love you,
Sometimes i hate you.
But when i hate you,
It's 'cause i love you.


That's how i am
So what can i do?
I'm happy when i'm with you.


~interlude~


Sometimes i love you,
Sometimes i hate you.
But when i hate you,
It's 'cause i love you.


That's how i am
So what can i do?
I'm happy when i'm with you.
I'm happy when i'm with you.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 1 for 8 weeks in 1950
-words and music by jay livingston and ray evans
-academy award winner from the film "captain carey, u.s.a" starring alan ladd


Mona lisa, mona lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that mona lisa strangeness in your smile?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

<instrumental interlude>

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

Mona lisa, mona lisa

(johnny burke)




Better face the facts, ol' buddy,
And be prepared to take the blow.
You don't have to sit and study,
It's something anyone should know.
Shake hands... get your hat...
And go.


You can praise her eyes,
And adore her hair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can walk her home
In the warm spring air,
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can look
With a longing in your look,
And try every method in the book
And worship the smile that kind of
Took you unaware.


And you can weep and sigh,
You can say, "unfair".
You can almost die of despair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.

(words and music by gross and lawrence)
This lyrics are like performed by natalie cole

The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and i came wandering by
And lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

(simon/bernier)


Blow...tropic wind...
Sing a song...through the trees.


Trees...sigh to me...
Soon my love...i will see.


Poinciana,
Your branches speak to me of love.
Pale moon is casting shadows from above.


Poinciana,
Somehow i feel the jungle beat
Within me, there grows a rhythmic, savage
Beat.


Love is everywhere, its magic perfume fills the air.
To and fro, you sway, my heart's in time,
I've learned to care.


Poinciana,
Though skies may turn from blue to gray,
My love will live for ever and a day.


Blow....tropic wind,
Sing a song through the trees.
Trees...sigh to me
Soon my love... i will see.


Poinciana...

(nathaniel cole, charlotte hawkins)


(with you on my mind,
With you on my mind)


With you on my mind,
How can i do anything?
With you on my mind,
All the time remembering.


Got an achin' heart
Thinkin' how it used to be.
With you on my mind,
When you gave your love to me.


I believed in your love (your love)
Thought i was your true love (true love),
But you found a new love (new love)
Who changed your mind (who changed your mind).


Now that you are gone,
I just seem to spend my time
Feelin' so forlorn,
With you always on my mind.


~interlude~


Now that you are gone,
I just seem to spend my time
Feelin' so forlorn,
With you on my mind.


Feelin' so forlorn,
With you always on my mind.
(with you on my mind)

(h. woods, g. kahn)


It's just a little street
Where old friends meet,
I'd love to wander back
Someday.


To you, it may be old,
And sort of tumbled down,
But it means a lot to folks
In my hometown.


Although i'm rich or poor,
I still feel sure
I'm welcome as the flowers in may.


It's just a little street
Where old friends meet,
And treat you in the same old way.


~interlude~


Although i'm rich or poor,
I still feel sure
I'm welcome as the flowers in may.


It's just a little street
Where old friends meet,
And treat you in the same old way.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 1 for 6 weeks in 1946-47
-words by deek watson and music by william best
-also charted in 1946 by charlie spivak (#5)
-also charted in 1947 by eddie howard (#2), dinah shore (also #2), ella
-fitzgerald (#8), and art kassel (#15).
-also charted by sam cooke in 1958 (#17).
-also charted in 1961 by the cleftones (#60).


I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I'll give you my heart

I love you and you alone were meant for me
Please give your loving heart to me
And say we'll never part

I think of you every morning
Dream of you every night
Darling, i'm never lonely
Whenever you are in sight

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I've given you my heart

<instrumental interlude>

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I've given you my heart

-artist: nat king cole
-from his "the greatest of nat king cole" lp-capitol slb 6803
-peak billboard position # 16 in 1954
-words and music by sammy gallop and arthur kent


Someone longs for you and your caress
He's learning now how empty arms can be
Someone who used to know your kiss not long ago
That someone happens to be me

How he misses you and must confess
Without you he's like driftwood on the sea
He's just a dreamer who is still in love with you
That dreamer happens to be me

I'll never know just why we parted
It's more than i can comprehend
I only know when you departed
You started a night that has no end

Perhaps there'll come a time when you're alone
Your heart still haunted by a memory
If then you chance to find there's someone on your mind
I hope it happens to be me

<instrumental interlude>

Perhaps there'll come a time when you're alone
Your heart still haunted by a memory
If then you chance to find there's someone on your mind
I hope it happens to be me

I hope it happens to be me

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position #8 in 1952
-words and music by roy turk and fred ahlert in 1930
-charted in 1931 by nick lucas (#8), ted weems (also #8), the charleston
-chasers (#15), and lee morse (#18).
-also charted in 1952 by johnnie ray at # 4
-title song from the 1953 film starring donald o'connor, janet leigh, buddy
-hackett, and scatman crothers


Gee, it's great after bein' out late
Walkin' my baby back home
Arm in arm over meadow and farm
Walkin' my baby back home

We go 'long harmonizing a song
Or i'm recitin' a poem
Owls go by and they give me the eye
Walkin' my baby back home

We stop for a while, she gives me a smile
And snuggles her head on my chest
We start in to pet and that's when i get
Her talcum all over my vest

After i kinda straighten my tie
She has to borrow my comb
Once kiss then i continue again
Walkin' my baby back home

<instrumental interlude>

She's 'fraid of the dark so i have to park
Outside of her door till it's light
She says if i try to kiss her she'll cry
I dry her tears all through the night

Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
Right from her doorway we roam
Eats and then it's a pleasure again
Walkin' my baby
Talkin' my baby
Lovin' my baby
I don't mean maybe
Walkin' my baby back home

(bobby troup)


Once i had a gal,
As sweet as she could be.
Once i had a gal,
And she was right for me.
Kinda sandy hair,
Eyes so soft and blue
That you couldn't help but care
When she looked at you.
She called me "baby"...
"baby", all the time.


She said, "baby, can't you see?
"baby, understand
"baby, you're for me,
Won't you take my hand?"
But i pushed her away,
Wouldn't let her near
Pushed her far away
Now i'm wishing i could hear her
Call me "baby"...
"baby", all the time.


~interlude~


It's so lonely through the day,
Lonely through the night,
Lonely, lonely hours
Without that gal i held so tight.
Lord, i pray that you
Will listen to my plea.
Keep her close to you
So she'll come back to me,
And call me "baby"...
"baby", all the time.


Baby...
Baby, all the time.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 45 in 1958
-composed for the1951 italian film "anna" starring silvana magnano, raf vallone,
-and vittorio gassman
-italian words by michele galdieri and music by p.g. redi
-english words by shelley dobbins


Non dimenticar means don't forget you are my darling
Don't forget to be
All you mean to me
Non dimenticar my love is like a star, my darling
Shining bright and clear
Just because you're here

Please do not forget that our lips have met
And i've held you tight, dear
Was it dreams ago my heart felt this glow?
Or only just tonight, dear?

Non dimenticar although you travel far, my darling
It's my heart you own, so i'll wait alone
Non dimenticar

Se ci separ

(mitchell parish, cliff burwell)


Just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy, baby boy
With another brand new choo-choo choy
When i met my sweet lorraine, lorraine, lorraine.


A pair of eyes
That are brighter tham the summer sky
When you see them, you'll realize
Why i love my sweet lorraine.


Now when it's rainin',
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that i'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho


Each night i pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When i marry sweet lorraine.


~interlude~


Now when it's rainin'
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that i'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho


Each night i pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When i marry sweet lorraine.

(alan lerner, frederick loewe)


I have often walked
Down the street before,
But the pavement always
Stayed beneath my feet before.
All at once am i
Several stories high,
Knowing i'm on the street where you live.


Are there lilac trees
In the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live.


And oh, the towering feeling
Just to know somehow you are near
The overpowering feeling
That any second you may suddenly appear.


People stop and stare
They don't bother me,
For there's no where else on earth
That i would rather be.


Let the time go by,
I won't care if i
Can be here on the street where you live.


~interlude~


People stop and stare
They don't bother me,
For there's no where else on earth
That i would rather be.


Let the time go by
I won't care if i
Can be here on the street where you live,


Let me be on the street where you live.

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position #8 in 1952
-words by sammy gallop and music by kurt adams


I used to walk with you
Along the avenue
Our hearts were carefree and gay
How could i know i'd lose you
Somewhere along the way?

The friends we used to know
Would always smile "hello"
No love like our love they'd say
Then love slipped through our fingers
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night i start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now i look for you
Along the avenue
And as i wander i pray
That some day soon i'll find you
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night i start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now i look for you
Along the avenue
And as i wander i pray
That some day soon i'll find you
Somewhere along the way
Somewhere along the way

(irving berlin)


What'll i do when you
Are far away
And i'm so blue,
What'll i do?


What'll i do when i
Am wondering who
Is kissing you,
What'll i do?


What'll i do with just
A photograph
To tell my troubles to?


When i'm alone
With only dreams of you
That won't come true,
What'll i do?


~interlude~


When i'm alone
With only dreams of you
That won't come true,
What'll i do?

(m. edwards, b. green)


Once in a while,
Will you try
To give one little thought to me,
Though someone else may be
Nearer your heart?


Once in a while,
Will you dream
Of the moments
I shared with you,
Moments before we two
Drifted apart?


In love's smoldering ember,
One spark may remain.
If love still can remember,
That spark may burn again.


I know that i'll
Be contented with
Yesterday's memory,
Knowing you think of me
Once in a while.


~interlude~


Once in a while...


In love's smoldering ember,
One spark may remain.
If love still can remember,
The spark may burn again.


I know that i'll
Be contented with
Yesterday's memory,
Knowing you think of me
Once in a while...
Once in a while.

(joe bailey)


No-o-o, i don't want her,
So i'll forget her.
Forget the love she gave me,
Somehow.
I've learned my lesson,
Don't have to tell me.
'cause i'm gonna start forgettin',
Yes, i'm gonna start forgettin'
Right now.


Go on, take my share,
'cause i don't want her.
And now, she's gone, good riddance, goodbye.
But what my friends don't know
Is that i love her so.
And in my lonely room all day,
I cry.


Go-o on and take her,
'cause i don't want her.
I know i'll find another,
Find another
Somewhere.
No, i don't want her,
She's not my kind now.
And if she's got somebody else,
Oh, really got somebody else,
I don't care.


To think that my love
Could say "goodbye, love",
And leave me here, as low as the ground,
But no one knows but me
What she means to me,
And when i'm by myself,
All day i sigh.


'cause without her...
I could lay me down
And die.

(dorothy wayne, ray rauch)


(chorus sings:)
Wild is love!
Wild is love!
Wild-wild-wild
Is love!


(nat's spoken words:)
As a rule, man's a fool.
When it's hot, he wants it cool.
When it's cool, he wants it hot.
Always wanting
What is not.


(nat sings:)
Wild is love
Whenever two hearts meet,
Wild is love,
Bitter, but oh so sweet.


And i know
I must go
Wherever love takes me,
Whatever love makes me,
I will be!


Like a fire
Burning beyond control,
Wild is love
Deep in my heart and soul


And though wild as the wind
And wild as the rolling sea,
Nothing could ever be
As wild as love.


~interlude~


And i know
I must go
Wherever love takes me,
Whatever love makes me,
I will be!


~interlude~


And though wild is the wind
And wild is the rolling sea,
Nothing could ever be
As wild as love...
As wild as love...
As wild as love...
As wild is love!

Nat king cole

I was walking along, minding my business
When out of an orange-colored sky
Flash! bam! alakazam!
Wonderful you came by

I was humming a tune, drinking in sunshine
When out of that orange-colored view
Wham! bam! alakazam!
I got a look at you

One look and i yelled "timber"
"watch out for flying glass"
'cause the ceiling fell and the bottom fell out
I went into a spin and i started to shout,
"i've been hit, this is it, this is it!"

I was walking along minding my business
When love came and hit me in the eye
Flash! bam! alakazam!
Out of an orange-colored sky.