Album
Wild Is Love
1960 · Jazz, Pop
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
Wild Is Love is a Jazz album by Nat King Cole, originally released in 1960. On Gatefold: 28 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
Wild Is Love is a 1960 concept album by the American singer and pianist Nat King Cole, arranged by Nelson Riddle. The album chronicles a narrator's attempts to pick up various women before he finds love at the conclusion of the album. The album formed the basis for an unsuccessful musical, I'm With You, that starred Cole and was intended as a potential Broadway vehicle for him. A television special also called Wild Is Love resulted from the album, and was shown in Canada in late 1961. The television special was not shown in the United States until 1964 due to the brief presence of physical contact between the African American Cole and a performer of Canadian European descent, Larry Kert, that was seen as offensive by commercial sponsor. The album was released at the advent of the sexual revolution, Cole's biographer Daniel Mark Epstein would subsequently write of the album that "The lyrics tell the story of a man's search for romantic love - its excitements and frustration, joys and sorrows - with a forward, blunt emphasis on carnal lust, and an edge of cynicism that would have been wholly offensive only a few years earlier". Wild Is Love was one of six albums nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 3rd Annual Grammy Awards in 1961, where it lost to Bob Newhart's The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. .
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Tracklist
- 1Introduction0:44
- 2Wild Is Love2:03
- 3Hundreds and Thousands of Girls2:38
- 4It's a Beautiful Evening3:15
- 5Tell Her In the Morning3:01
- 6Are You Disenchanted?3:26
- 7Pick-Up2:42
- 8Beggar for the Blues3:31
- 9World of No Return2:50
- 10In Love Again2:48
- 11Stay With It2:17
- 12Wouldn't You Know (Her Name Is Mary)2:28
- 13He Who Hesitates3:21
- 14Wild Is Love (Finale)0:46
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Vocal Jazz
- lush
- romantic
- theatrical
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Nat King ColeVOCALS, LINER NOTES VOCALS, SLEEVE NOTES
- Nelson RiddleARRANGED BY , CONDUCTOR ARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR ARRANGED BY, ORCHESTRATED BY, CONDUCTOR
- Nelson Riddle And His OrchestraORCHESTRA
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 28 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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