Earl Grant – Sings And Plays Songs Made Famous By Nat Cole

Earl Grant – Sings And Plays Songs Made Famous By Nat Cole

Earl Grant

      Earl Grant (American Earl Grant) American pianist, organist and vocalist, popular in the 1950s and 1960s. January 20, 1931 - June 10, 1970.

      Earl Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma on January 20, 1931.
Later he became known for his keyboards and vocals. Earl Grant also played trumpet and percussion.

      Grant studied in four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. Earl Grant worked in clubs while serving in the army in Fort Bliss, Texas. He was perhaps the most commercially successful organist of the 1960s. Earl Grant (Earl Grant) chose a more sustainable way of playing than his label companions Lenny Dee and Ethel Smith. (here it is necessary to describe briefly what exactly)

      In 1957, he signed a contract with Decca Records, and his first single "The End" reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The single "Ebb Tide" sold over a million copies and received the status of a golden disc.
Earl Grant recorded five more singles on the charts, including "Swingin 'Gently" (from Beyond the Reef) and six additional albums (mostly on Decca) until 1968.

        Earl Grant also recorded the album Yes Sirree and the instrumental album Trade Winds, one track on the Hammond organ and piano, with a love theme from El Cid and Chaplin’s film Eternal. In this album there were several imitations of the sounds of "tropical birds" created by his electric organ. "House of Bamboo" was another popular single.

        He sang the same way he played, and most of his later recordings included 2-3 vocal numbers. Earl Grant's voice (Earl Grant) sounded hoarse, dry, like the voice of Nat King Cole. Throughout his career, it was rumored that he was Cole's brother.

        Earl Grant has recorded a total of 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the label Brunswick, a subsidiary of Decca. Tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson participated in several of his albums. Grant has also starred in films and television several times, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1961). He sings the title theme in the 1959 film Imitation of Life very close to the imitation of Nat King Cole.

         Unfortunately, Earl Grant was tragically killed in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39, when the car he drove off of Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to his intended destination. in Juarez, Mexico. His 17-year-old cousin also died in the accident.

Earl Grant – Sings And Plays Songs Made Famous By Nat Cole

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Label: Decca – DL 74729
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gloversville Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz
Style: Soul-Jazz

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Looking Back
Written-By – Belford Hendricks, Brook Benton, Clyde Otis
2:25
A2 Ramblin' Rose
Written-By – Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman
3:20
A3 Get Your Kicks On Route 66!...
Written-By – Bobby Troup
3:44
A4 Sweet Lorraine
Written-By – Clifford Burwell*, Mitchell Parish
3:20
A5 Nature Boy
Written-By – Eden Ahbez
3:47
A6 The Frim Fram Sauce
Written-By – Joe Ricardel, Redd Evans
2:27
B1 If I May
Written-By – Charles Singleton, Rose Marie McCoy
2:33
B2 It's Only A Paper Moon
Written-By – Billy Rose, E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen
2:50
B3 L-O-V-E
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Milt Gabler
2:37
B4 Straighten Up And Fly Right
Written-By – Irving Mills, Nat King Cole
2:33
B5 Mona Lisa
Written-By – Jay Livingston-Ray Evans*
2:57
B6 Ballerina
Written-By – Bob Russell, Carl Sigman
2:56

Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Decca Records, Inc.
Pressed By – Decca Records Pressing Plant, Gloversville
Credits
Producer, Directed By [Orchestra] – Charles "Bud" Dant
Notes
This release has the Decca "Arrow Logo" on the front cover with "STEREO" appearing above the image of Nat King Cole and the original Decca colorband logo on the labels.

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LP from my personal collection.