? ©1991 Capitol Records, Inc.
Tracks 1 to 11 originally released, with a different track order, as Welcome To The Club in 1959, and again in 1962 under the title The Swingin' Side Of Nat King Cole. Track 12 is an outtake from those sessions. Tracks 13 to 17 were released on various singles.
1 to 6: New York, June 8, 1944.
7 to 13: Los Angeles, February 16, 1946.
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11 are previously unissued master/alternate takes.
2CD. A compilation pulling together 10 years' worth of Cole's and May's collaborative recordings.
The first 14 tracks are mono, the rest are stereo. Disc 1 tracks 15, 16, 19 to 21 and Disc Two tracks 1 to 7 originally released as the album [r1617219] in 1957. Disc Two tracks 8 to 19 originally released as the album [r1548489] in 1964. Disc 1 tracks 10, 12, 14, 17, and 18 are previously unissued. The rest of the tracks appeared on various singles. Notably missing from this collection are the two tracks May arranged for Nat King Cole and [a10533].
©?1993 Capitol Records, Inc.
1-1 to 1-4: recorded September 4, 1951
1-5 to 1-7: recorded January 14, 1953
1-8 to 1-9: recorded October 18, 1954
1-10 to 1-14 recorded May 14, 1957
1-15 to 1-18 recorded July 10, 1957
1-19 to 1-21 recorded July 19, 1957
2-1 to 2-4 recorded July 31, 1957
2-5 to 2-7 recorded August 7, 1957
2-8 to 2-11 recorded November 20, 1961
2-12 to 2-15 recorded November 21, 1961
2-16 to 2-19 recorded November 22, 1961
