Unforgettable...With Love (30th Anniversary Edition)

ナット・キング・コールの愛娘で伝説のシンガーソングライター、ナタリー・コールの大ヒットアルバム『アンフォゲッタブル』は1991年に発売され、全世界で1,400万枚以上のセールスを記録し、グラミー賞で7部門を受賞したモンスター・アルバムのリリース30周年記念エディションが登場!

本作では約20年ぶりに父親ナット・キング・コールの録音した曲を披露、歌のアレンジはコールが手がけ、ピアノ伴奏は叔父のアイク・コールが担当。また、アルバムのタイトル曲は、父との対話形式のデュエットで、彼女の最も印象的なレコーディングのひとつとなった。

今回新たなリマスタリングを施し、ボーナストラック2曲を収録加!

A major change of direction for Natalie Cole, Unforgettable found the singer abandoning the type of R&B/pop she'd been recording since 1975 in favor of jazz-influenced pre-rock pop along the lines of Nat King Cole's music. It was a surprising risk that paid off handsomely -- both commercially and artistically. Naysayers who thought that so radical a change would be commercial suicide were proven wrong when the outstanding Unforgettable sold a shocking five million units. Quite clearly, this was an album Cole was dying to make. Paying tribute to her late father on "Mona Lisa," "Nature Boy," "Route 66," and other gems that had been major hits for him in the 1940s and early '50s, the 41-year-old Cole sounds more inspired than she had in well over a decade. On the title song, overdubbing was used to make it sound as though she were singing a duet with her father -- dishonest perhaps, but certainly enjoyable. Thankfully, standards and pre-rock pop turned out to be a primary direction for Cole, who was a baby when the title song became a hit for her father in 1951. ~ Alex Henderson