Released by special arrangement with Ms. Cole and the estate of Nat King Cole and with Mr. Dan Morgenstern and the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies.
Recorded live at the Circle Room of Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and broadcast over WEMP, September 1946 on the following nights:
Saturday the 21st (#2-5), Sunday the 22nd (#6-9), Monday the 23rd (#12-14) and Wednesday the 25th (#1, 10, 11, 15-17).
All songs feature vocals by Nat King Cole, except #4, 7, 10 & 13, which are instrumentals. #2 and #15 also feature singing by Moore and Miller.
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.