NAT KING COLE Love Is The Thing DCC LPZ 2029 Limited #0734 AUDIOPHILE Sealed

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NAT KING COLE Love Is The ThingNew & Sealed Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: DCC/Verve LPZ 2029
This is the audiophile DCC edition of Nat King Cole's "Love Is The Thing." This LP is a High Quality, 180 Gram, Pure Virgin Vinyl pressing. Mastered by Steve Hoffman with an all vacuum tube cutting system, the recording was taken from the original master tapes. 
The album is new and sealed in it's original plastic wrap. Perforation is 100% intact. Corners are sharp and Colors are vibrant. 100% Mint!
Limited Edition #0734 of only 5,000.
Songs:
Side 11. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 3:102. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:153. "Stay as Sweet as You Are" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 2:594. "Where Can I Go Without You?" (Peggy Lee, Victor Young) – 2:575. "Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much" (Irving Berlin) – 2:506. "Love Letters" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 2:467. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:17
Side 28. "I Thought About Marie" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:069. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:0010. "It's All in the Game" (Charles G. Dawes, Carl Sigman) – 3:0711. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:4612. "Love Is the Thing" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:01
Bonus tracks (DCC LP)13. "Someone to Tell It To" (Sammy Cahn, Dolores Fuller, James Van Heusen) – 3:1714. "If Love Ain't There" (Johnny Burke) – 3:01
Review: Love Is the Thing is a 1957 album released by American jazz vocalist Nat King Cole. It is the first of four collaborations between Cole and influential arranger Gordon Jenkins. Launching the charting single "Stardust", which peaked at #79, the album reached #1 on Billboard's "Pop Albums" chart and tied at #1 on the UK Charts with the soundtrack for the 1956 film The King and I. According to the records of the RIAA, the album achieved gold status in 1960 and broke platinum in 1992.
Overview: In 1956, Cole came together with popular music arranger Jenkins to produce the first of the four collaborations that are described by critics as among the best of either artist. American Jazz commenter Scott Yanow noted that the album "sticks exclusively" to the role Cole had established in 1950s popular opinion as a "superb ballad vocalist". While Love Is the Thing little reflects the jazz roots whence Cole emerged, the singer's "restrained vocal approach" and the arranger's "unhurried string charts" combined to produce a romantic album of enduring popularity.
Cole's three further albums with Jenkins were The Very Thought of You (1958), Everytime I Feel the Spirit (1959), and Where Did Everyone Go? (1963).
Release history: Originally released by Capitol Records, the album has been re-issued by various companies in alternate forms. A 1996 LP re-release on audiophile vinyl by the Digital Compact Classics (DCC) label included two bonus tracks.. In 2007, The Collectors' Choice label reissued the album in conjunction with the final Cole/Jenkins collaboration on a single disc entitled Love Is the Thing/Where Did Everyone Go? In 2010 the audiophile Analogue Productions label issued a hybrid SACD of the album, containing its original 12 tracks in mono, stereo, and three-track multichannel sound.
Released as Capitol W-824 (mono mix) in January 1957 with the the original 12 songs. The stereo LP version with only 10 songs was released as SW-824 in April 1959. This 180g DCC LP is the first LP since 1968 to restore Love Is The Thing to it's original length and running order. The 3-track original tapes of "Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much" and "Love Letters" were lost after being left off the stereo LP of Love Is The Thing. These two songs were never mixed to stereo and are presented here in the original pristine monaural form.
Bonus tracks recorded in March 1963 for Capitol SW-1859 Where Did Everyone Go? also conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
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