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| Still Unforgettable (Amazon Exclusive Bonus Track) | 
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| Artist: Natalie Cole
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 310
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512315
UPC: 643027811121
EAN: 0643027806127
ASIN: B001AW3UNQ
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW - (NOT SEALED BUT GUARANTEED NEW - NEVER PLAYED) - SHIPPED FIRST CLASS WITH FREE TRACKING CONFIRMATION
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| Tracks:
| • | Walkin' My Baby Back Home(w/Nat King Cole) | | • | Come Rain Or Come Shine | | • | Coffee Time | | • | Somewhere Along The Way | | • | You Go To My Head | | • | Nice 'N' Easy | | • | Why Don't You Do Right? | | • | Here's That Rainy Day | | • | But Beautiful | | • | Lollipops And Roses | | • | The Best Is Yet To Come | | • | Something's Gotta Give | | • | Until The Real Thing Comes Along | | • | It's All Right With Me | | • | How Do You Keep The Music Playing |
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Album Description
17 Years After The Multi-Platinum Album "Unforgettable...With Love", The Eight-time Grammyr Winning Singer prepares to release her follow-Up album 'Still Unforgettable' on 29th September with substantial UK promotion to coincide with the release. This much anticipated release is a timeless collection of popular tracks from the great American songbook, transformed to life with Natalie's beautiful vocal and iridescent flair. Natalie has had an amazing string of hits throughout the years including 'This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)', 'Miss You Like Crazy' and 'Pink Cadillac', achieving Grammy success eight times over. 1991 saw the release of 'Unforgettable' featuring her own poignant arrangements of her Father the legendary Nat King Cole's greatest hits. The album went on to sell over 14 million copies worldwide. Recorded at the historical Capital Studios in LA and produced by Natalie herself, the album features classics 'Walkin' My Baby Back Home' a duet with Nat King Cole, 'Come Rain or Come Shine', 'Here's That Rainy Day' and 'But Beautiful'. Pre-ceding the album release, is the lead track from the album 'Walkin' My Baby Back Home' - a wonderful duet with her late father Nat King Cole, which was first released by him in the 1950's - available digitally from 29th July. A brand new video for this song and an EPK is being created for TV promotion.
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 Not her best September 13, 2008
38 out of 47 found this review helpful
Natalie has an outstanding voice one of the best I have ever heard and she could sing anything. But, this CD you can tell she was sick when she recorded it. As Natalie knows to sing this kind of music you have to feel it and put those emotions in the song as she did with her prior CDs. This CD she is just singing it and you can't do that with these songs. You have these incredible bands with great music and you have to out do the music, as Smoky Robinson found out when he tried to make a CD with the old classics, which was terrible. I am a big collector of classic music and I know Natalie can do much better than this, but I have a very critical ear when it comes to this kind of music.
Not So Unforgettable September 14, 2008
32 out of 44 found this review helpful
Over the past several years, we haven't seen really great pop albums that have shined. While we've heard standard records from Rod Stewart with his Great American Songbook series, and offshoots like Barry Manilow's Greatest Songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's. For Natalie Cole though, it has been 17 years after the most dominant standards album, Unforgettable With Love. Her well-acclaimed tribute album to her late father Nat king Cole is one of the most dominant albums she has ever recorded. But, many fans have been eager and anxious for a sequel to her Unforgettable record, and are hoping for a comeback from Natalie. Well, she has finally made a sequel, but it does it really work?
Natalie Cole's 2008 album, Still Unforgettable, which tends to follow-up on her success with the 1991 acclaimed album, but feels more like a mixed bag of tricks that misses the mark. Some of the songs sound well, like her newly-recorded duet with her dad, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, as well as The Best Is Yet To Come, and her rendidition of Lollipops And Roses. There are though some tracks that feel more they are weak, and lacking heart and soul like her cover of How Do You Keep The Music Playing?, a song which was much more recognized by Patti Austin & James Ingram from the 80's, and her cover of Come Rain Or Come Shine. The feeling of this record, which Natalie did produce by herself, and without the success of her work with David Foster behind Unforgettable, it just feels like it has less drive and heart, but Natalie still shows strength in her voice that still shows the shadow she is still walking under.
All in all, Natalie Cole's Still Unforgettable is not the best standards records album I've heard the past several years, but could've brought more than what listeners still want to find unforgettable. Still Unforgettable isn't as much of a must buy for music lovers as was with Unforgettable With Love, but leaves hard core Natalie Cole fans wishing for more to walk with their baby back home.
Album Cover: B
Songs: C
Price: C+
Mastering: B
Overall: C 1/2+
 Dullsville September 17, 2008
24 out of 32 found this review helpful
This is not Natalie Cole at her best.
She's in pretty good voice, but her singing lacks spark and energy (maybe it has to do with her illness), but Ms. Cole has certainly sounded more lively and sassier on other recordings.
This is a throwback to those easy listening albums of the 1950s and 1960s. I was expecting Natalie to take the genre forward.
The arrangements are dull rather than lively and some of these arrangements tend to sound the same. What happened to the swing of a song "The Best Is Yet To Come?" Natalie's version is just average.
To have made Still Unforgettable truly great, Natalie Cole could have used the services of veteran producer and big band arranger Quincy Jones.
 Natalie..........Still Amazing September 9, 2008
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
What an undertaking for Natalie Cole. UNFORGETTABLE WITH LOVE has sold more than 10 million copies and won her tons of Grammy's including album of the year in 1991. She showed the great versatility she had with that project. Since then she has had many more cds, some were jazz collections, there was a highly acclaimed r@b venture and the excellent SNOWFALL ON THE SAHARA.
Some may wonder why return to the UNFORGETTABLE genre. She did other jazz albums. Why does this one differ and does it qualify to be considered the followup to UNFORGETTABLE WITH LOVE. The answer is a resounding yes. With UNFORGETTABLE WITH LOVE she established herself as an excellent interpreter of jazz music. It is now 17 years later and this cd illustrates how much she has grown and developed her craft over the years. She is now not only a jazz interpreter but a true jazz chanteuse in her own right.
This cd also marks her first turn as producer and she did her research as with UNFORGETTABLE WITH LOVE. The American Songbook was delveed into for some true classics. The song choices are truly eclectic and allow her to again show her great versatility. The duet with her father, Nat King Cole WALKIN MY BABY BACK HOME is a joy and opens the cd with great promise. Their voices seem to blend together even better than before. COME RAIN OR COME SHINE follows and brings up the tempo. She soars and scats gloriously.
One can't help but note that her vocal interpretations here have a much more distinctive emotional depth. There are some slow tempo standouts COFFEE TIME, SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, and YOU GO TO MY HEAD which also has an amazing guitar solo. Her jazz chops are put to exemplary use with WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT? which for me is the true masterpiece of this cd. The uptempo standouts are NICE 'N' EASY, THE BEST IS YET TO COME and the amazing SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE which builds and builds and will send shivers up and down your spine. A true masterpiece. The only songs that miss the mark a little for me are BUT BEAUTIFUL and LOLLIPOPS AND ROSES. They are still quality but not as superior as the rest of the collection.
The cd ends with you begging for more. UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG is a beautiful ballad and IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ME wraps things up with great jazz swing. (If you got the Amazon edition the bonus HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING will blow you away.)
My final concensus? This cd is a true worthy followup to UNFORGETTABLE WITH LOVE. Yes, she has done other jazz albums since then but this one has the same impeccable production, spellbounding orchestration and as stated above a vocal performance that is asounding. A sequel should show growth and this cd certainly does.
Highly recommend. A cd of the highest standard.
A Warm Welcome After "Unforgettable With Love". . . It's "Still Unforgettable" September 12, 2008
9 out of 23 found this review helpful
"It is with pleasure and delight that I bring to you once again...some of the most Unforgettable Music of all-time. Ever since a certain record called "Unforgettable" changed my life and my career back in 1991, I have had the 'itch' to re-create this moment if at all possible once again. And so, seventeen years later I found myself delving into that great American Songbook looking for more treasures...and I was not disappointed." ~ Natalie Cole ~
I'm not disappointed either. And so with the enthusiastic admirers of Natalie Cole's music and artistry as evident in its sales rank. As of this writing, this album ranks #5 in music sales at the world's biggest website, Amazon.com.
It's been a while since I bought a Natalie Cole CD and I welcome this newly-released album "Still Unforgettable" with warmth and child-like enthusiasm. It is, indeed, a lovely and unforgettable album which is much-awaited and a perfect sequel to her bestselling album in 1991, Unforgettable: With Love. I've been listening to it non-stop since last night - each listen comes with greater appreciation for Ms. Cole's incredible flair and talent. It is surely a potential material for a Grammy nomination and award taking into consideration her exceptionally beautiful interpretations enhanced by the sublime big band and orchestral arrangements from various arrangers namely; pianist Alan Broadbent, one of my all-time favorite pianists/arrangers whose superb artistry I've seen in live performances at Spazio in the past, bassist Jim Hughart, Bill Holman, Patrick Williams, Harold Wheeler and Nan Schwartz; and the excellent musicianship of the rest of the big band musicians such as Tamir Hendelman (piano), Jeff Clayton (sax), Warren Luening (trumpet), Gregg Field (drums), among many others, and an impressive group of orchestra players.
The entire album is simply splendid and is worthy to any music lover, but the center of my ears' attention includes absolutely breathtaking interpretations of "You Go To My Head" and a seldom-recorded song but a favorite of mine when I was in my teens, "Lollipops And Roses." The first version I heard was from my late father's record of Perry Como. And not to mention a dramatically powerful reading of "Here's That Rainy Day" highlighting the hauntingly beautiful trumpet solo by a fine musician, Warren Luening, and an engaging danceable digital duet with Nat King Cole, "Walkin' My Baby Back Home." Ditto with heartfelt treatments of "Until The Real Thing Comes Along," "But Beautiful," and special mention to a song from Kurt Adams and Sammy Gallop that was first recorded by her legendary Dad in 1952 which remained on TOP 10 for 25 weeks, and also the first of five songs that she singled-out on Liner Notes, "Somewhere Along The Way." It was also recorded by Bette Midler and Tony Bennett. While the notes do not indicate who the arranger is for this track, the arrangement particularly the intro reminds me so much of one of Nelson Riddle's charts. I maybe wrong, but I guess it is Alan Broadbent's chart.
"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 everything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be a special part of me."
The CD booklet's centerfold shows Ms. Cole in four different poses donning a very elegant evening gown -- she looks fabulous and much younger than her age. On her Liner Notes for Ask a Woman Who Knows, she said, "When life gives you lemons, you'd better learn how to make lemonade." Amen to that. For me, not only I learned how to make lemonade, I've also perfected my Lemon Meringue Pie. I admire her fighting spirit, and I earnestly pray for her recovery. On all her acknowledgments on Liner Notes, she never fails to thank God ... "First and foremost to God who is my All in All...my Lord and my Redeemer."
Thank you, Natalie Cole! It's been a lovely listening experience.
P.S. Thank you kindly to a wonderful friend, MH, (Brad Pitt of O.C.) for your thoughtfulness. This will be one of my cherished CDs from my collection. A keeper.
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