Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
1948
The single was released in 1948, and later appeared on the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. It reached the top of the Billboard music charts and sold over a million copies, and introduced him to the white music market.
In 1999, the song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, a special award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".
Following Cole's success, rival record companies released cover versions of "Nature Boy" by other artists which ultimately became a pop and jazz standard, with many artists interpreting the song.
It was also used in numerous films like The Boy with Green Hair, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the 2001 musical Moulin Rouge!, for which David Bowie recorded a version. Both new and old listeners like the song, with a total of 74,6% yes votes in total.
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And I'm askin' why lord
If this is how I die, lord
Why be left with no family and no friends?
Ooh
I've got no celebration
Just this consolation
Time eats all his children in the end
-The Ballad Of Jane Doe
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It is WILD to me that there were so many steps almost not taken that led to that final scene with Alphonse
First, Lou debated blowing up the trebuchet, but decided that would be awkward
Then, Pinocchio considers stopping to attack Alphonse himself but gets yelled at by the party because Alphonse is literally surrounded by enemies and he would be surrendering double moment to hurt someone doomed for death.
THEN Brennan decided to allow Pinocchio lighting a firework and giving it to Cricket as an object interaction
Pib gives Alphonse the help action and he fails his save. At FIRST, Pinocchio admits he was going to use his Master of Destiny reaction to MAKE him fail so he’s all good. But FINALLY upon hearing Pib say Alphonse is the only person from his town who’s still alive, Pinocchio feels bad and uses the ability help save Alphonse and he fucking rolls a Nat 20
And that Nat 20, guys gals and non-binary pals, is what allows a Cricket aiming a firecracker at a rocket to kill many tiny people and break a curse, turning a mule back into a prince
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Thinking about Ava "owns three tee shirts" du Mortain and Natalie "material girl" Sewell traveling together
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hey we put your boyfriend in the book. yeah he’s in there with the other stories. my son’s in there too btw. they’re dancing with nat king cole. if you want i can take him out as a beam of light for a few seconds, but sorry yeah he’s in there now.
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i will forever believe that winter is shauna's least favourite time of the year because in some other winter she lost jackie (her lover) and her newborn baby :(
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