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Track Listing
1. There's a Lull in My Life
2. Stardust
3. Let's Face the Music and Dance
4. Teach Me Tonight
5. When I Fall in Love - (with Nat "King" Cole)
6. What a Difference a Day Made
7. Love Letters
8. He Was Too Good to Me
9. Dindi (Portuguese) - (Portuguese)
10. Two For the Blues
11. If Love Ain't There
12. To Whom It May Concern
13. Where Can I Go Without You
14. Ahmad's Blues
15. Pick Yourself Up
16. If You Could See Me Now
17. Like a Lover - (Portuguese)
18. This Morning It Was Summer
19. When I Fall in Love (Spanish)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Natalie Cole (vocals); Nat "King" Cole (vocals, Hammond B-3 organ); Paul Jackson, Jr., John P. Pizzarelli, John Chiodini, Lee Ritenour (guitars); Jon Clarke (oboe); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Everette Harp, Dan Higgins, Michael Brecker (saxophones); Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); George Bohanon (trombone); George Duke (piano, keyboards, vibraphone); Terry Trotter, Mike Lang, Rob Mounsey, Bob James (keyboards); Jim Hughart, Chuck Domanico, David Finck, Chuck Berghoffer, Nathan East, Reggie Hamilton (bass); Harold Jones, Ralph Penland, Chris Parker, John Guerin, John Robinson, Harvey Mason (drums); Bashiri Johnson, Rafael Padilla, Paulinho DaCosta (percussion); Janice Segal (background vocals); Four Play.
Producers: Phil Ramone, David Foster, George Duke, Natalie Cole.
Engineers: Al Schmitt, David Reitzas, Elliot Scheiner, Erik Zobler.
Principally recorded in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Dick La Palm.
"When I Fall In Love" won a 1997 Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. Alan Broadbent, David Foster and Gordon Jenkins' arrangement of "When I Fall In Love" won a 1997 Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocals.
STARDUST was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. And John Clayton, Jr.'s arrangement of "Teach Me Tonight" was also nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocals.
To call STARDUST, Natalie Cole's third collection of pop standards, "timeless" tells only half the story. Once again, recording studio wizardry has enabled Cole to reunite with her famous father for two of the album's 19 tracks. This time the results are noticeably different. Where the 1991 single "Unforgettable" kept Natalie firmly in her father's shadow, "When I Fall In Love" is far more assured--it's Natalie's turn to step into the foreground.
Ballads greatly outnumber up-tempo tunes on STARDUST, and Cole has picked a bumper crop. The haunting "There's A Lull In My Life" opens the album perfectly. Cole's Portuguese rendition of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Dindi" demonstrates her ability to convey a song's emotional punch, even when the average listener won't understand a word she sings. And the title tune, perhaps the greatest ballad ever written, takes Cole into hallowed ground, and into the very highest reaches of American female vocalists.
Industry Reviews
...what one would call mature. Think: Lena Horne's 1981 recording of her Broadway hit THE LADY AND HER MUSIC....Cole further proves her rank as a musician...
Vibe (12/01/1996)
...what one would call mature. Think: Lena Horne's 1981 recording of her Broadway hit THE LADY AND HER MUSIC....Cole further proves her rank as a musician...
Vibe (12/01/1996)
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