Nat 'King' Cole – Just One of Those Things / 45RPM 2LP Analogue Productions

On this album from 1957 Nat King Cole works with arranger Billy May, who had already successfully staged Frank Sinatra. Accordingly, the album is also upbeat and faster than previous recordings, which gives the

well-known songs a charm all their own, but does not mean that you would do without the ballads.This reissue is the ultimate reworking of the early Nat King Cole recordings by Acoustic Sounds. You almost feel as if

you are in the studio with the illustrious troupe and get a wonderful spatial impression of the studio.To be able to do this at all technically at the highest level, the AcousTech studio had to be rebuilt and sound engineers

Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray spent quite a while setting up the new systems to make the enormous sonic richness of this re-release possible. Just getting a new 3-channel sound head made for a Studer tape machine took weeks.

Mixing was done with the original multitrack tapes from Capitol and thus in a better quality than the master tape formerly released for publication. However, since these multitrack tapes contain the individual musicians and not

all at once, a new recording room had to be constructed to allow the individual channels to be played back together with proper room reverb. Since the AocustTech studio is part of the RTI record pressing plant, part of the production

had to be stopped for this and some corridors had to be closed off so that no machine noise or footsteps could disturb the re-recording.Of course, it would have been easier to digitally simulate the reverberation of the Capitol recording room,

but this would have lost much of the authenticity of the analog original. It might also have been authentic to reproduce the dirty jokes and tape mistakes on the work tapes, but it probably wouldn't do Nat King Cole justice to single out those

instances where he forgot his lines now. The sound engineers declared that in the countless hours of tape material, Nat had not hit a single wrong note.This may be the most complex restoration of an analog recording in the history of modern

production, and the process dragged on for months. The sonic result on two 45 rpm LPs, however, is stunning.

Title

1. When Your Lover Has Gone

2. A Cottage For Sale

3. Who’s Sorry Now?

4. Once In A While

5. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You

6. Just For The Fun Of It

7. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

8. I Understand

9. Just One Of Those Things

10. The Song Is Ended

11. I Should Care

12. The Party’s Over

13. You’ll Never Know