ALBUM: Just One of Those Things (1958)
MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$
It was a different time, a timeless time.
Nat King Cole was a smooth guy. Frank Sinatra-like in Cole’s crooning phase. My father tells me he was a big jazz guy with a trio in his earlier days. This album with a few pops and snaps has the brass blasting and retreating behind universal themed lyrics of love lost and found. “A Cottage for Sale” sets the tone with its title.
My favorite is ‘These Foolish Things Remind Me of You,’ partly because it is a great song but also because I had heard Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music do it. So I had familiarity going in.
An airline ticket to romantic places
Still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you
Those stumblin’ words that told you what my heart meant
A fair ground painted swings
These foolish things remind me of you
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.