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 Hazy Crazy Days/My Fair Lady

Name:  Hazy Crazy Days/My Fair Lady
Artist: Nat 'King' Cole
Styles: Easy Listening - Nostalgia - Jazz - Labels - EMI - Swing - Piano - Vocalists - Male
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: 27 October 2003
Label: Emi
  
UPC Catalogue No: 724359265629
Amazon Sales Ranking: 30503
Number of Discs: 1

Tracks
 1  Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer
 2  Get Out And Get Under The Moon
 3  There Is A Tavern In The Town
 4  On A Bicycle Built For Two
 5  That Sunday, That Summer
 6  On The Sidewalks Of New York
 7  Our Old Home Team
 8  After The Ball Is Over
 9  You Tell Me Your Dream
 10  That's What They Meant (By The Good Old Summertime)
 11  Don't Forget
 12  In The Good Old Summertime
 13  Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer
 14  With A Little Bit Of Luck
 15  I Could Have Danced All Night
 16  The Rain In Spain
 17  On The Street Where You Live
 18  I'm An Ordinary Man
 19  Get Me To The Church On Time
 20  Show Me
 21  I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
 22  You Did It
 23  Wouldn't It Be Loverly
 24  A Hymn To Him

Customer Reviews
 
Commercial Cole Rating: 4.0

Listening to this album, it is almost impossible to believe that Nat once belonged in the category of jazz "hipsters" in the Forties. The pseudo old fashioned musical backgrounds of "Lazy-Hazy" hark back to the pre-Great War days when the world was apparently a better place (or was it?). But you can't resist singning along with most of the very sunny and happy melodies, in which Cole is supported by a woodblock-and-banjo rhythm section and a mixed choir (with a fantastic bass).
The "My Fair Lady" part of the album is also a far cry from Cole's jazz past and perhaps a slightly less happy choice, for Cole has at times an odd pronuciation of the English language and of course he lacks the essential Englishness in the portrayal of Henry Higgins and Alfred Doolittle. The balads are very well done however and the intimate bossa-nova treatment of "On the Street where You Live" makes a nice change from Vic Damone's belting hit version.
The disc offers a generous amount of listening pleasure for its money.

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