The MousePod - MousePod #28 - Swing Street

[mousepod]

I didn't say that wanting to pronounce things correctly was retarded, I said that beating the dead horse of the argument as you guys seemed to want to do was retarded.

I get that you didn't like the way that Nat pronounces his Spanish words. I'll bet that others felt that way, too. I also bet that the hundreds of thousands of people that bought his three Spanish language albums (including many in Latin America) could see past his pronunciation.

From the Washington Post Online:

Dallas, Tex.: My parents, from Latin America, love Nat King Cole. They always played his Spanish albums. I have spoken to other Hispanics who say the same thing. He was the first to attempt this and the people loved him for it. More artists today should try this approach.
Carole Cole: I agree. I think it's interesting to me that this was another area in which I believe my father was a pioneer. You might be interested to know that in his travels throughout Latin America he was received with opened arms and an enormous amount of affection. For instance, when he first toured Brazil it seemed the population of Rio de Janeiro turned out en masse throwing roses at his feet to walk on, and he and my mother were asked to stay with the then-president of Brazil in the Brazilian palace. It's also interesting that he attempted to record in a number of other languages which needless to say, further endeared him to other cultures. He recorded Autumn Leaves in Japanese, which you can see in the documentary. I believe he recorded a tune here or there in Italian, French. And I imagine he would have done more in this area if he'd had the time.

From Cubanow.net:

His performances were such a hit, he packed the nightclub, the reviews were overwhelmingly favorable, requests for his shows to go on were so many, that Tropicana’s entrepreneur, Rodney, with his good artistic-commercial instinct, understood that in Nat King Cole’s case, the old saying about second parts were never good wouldn’t prove true and booked him again for the next season.

The horse is dead.

(and it's "Fawlty" Towers)