Nathaniel Adams
Cole born in Montgomery, Alabama. He grew in Chicago and there he started to
receive the Jazz influence by some friends, the same friends that he a few years
later started to sing together in the trio called The King Cole Trio. Cole was
the responsible to popularize a lot of music like “Mona Lisa” in 1950 and
”Unforgettable” in 1951.
Bobby Troup wrote
the song “Route 66” and he was the original singer of this song. A lot of
different singer re-recorder this song in some different styles. In 1942 this
song was recorded by The King Cole Trio, making it a popular song in this year.
Nat King Cole was the piano player in the trio and a few years later, in 1947,
he recorded the “Route 66”as a solo singer.
The Route 66 is a
very popular and historic route in the USA responsible to connect Chicago to
Los Angeles. Maybe this road is the most famous road in the country and because
this it is possible to find a lot of different things related to the road, like
some music of different groups, movies and series for TV. I heard about this
road in a song that I don’t remember the name, and after I saw this route in a
movie where the characters just want to take their motorcycles and rode in this
road enjoying the life. In Brazil, I saw a documentary, where a guy rent a
Corvette and crossed this route filming the nature, the things around the route
and the typical places that he found in his travel.
References
Song Facts (2014). Route 66 by Nat King Cole. Retrieved from http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2247
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