Nat King Cole would have been 100 yesterday. That's surprising to me - Sinatra's 100th was in 2015, Ella Fitzgerald's in 2017 - he was younger than either but passed so long ago that it seems like he belonged to an earlier generation. I only remember a couple of things he did live, when I was a little kid. My parents loved him - my mom would blast "Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer" whenever it came on the radio. I won't get into a Cole-Crosby argument, but just say that Cole is Crosby's only challenger as a Christmas singer.

Cole could sing anything. My own taste is for light songs, and this is one of my favorites:


"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."