Nat Gonella

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It's a Pair of Wings for Me 03:24 Tools
Georgia on My Mind 03:05 Tools
Rockin' Chair 03:08 Tools
Stardust 03:07 Tools
Black Coffee 03:02 Tools
Troublesome Trumpet 03:08 Tools
Oh Monah 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 03:09 Tools
I'm Nobody's Baby 02:46 Tools
Oh Mo'nah 03:29 Tools
Sentimental Interlude 03:20 Tools
Hey Little Hen 03:17 Tools
I Can't Dance (I Got Ants in My Pants) 03:04 Tools
Oh, They're Tough 03:15 Tools
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby 03:05 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart 02:49 Tools
Vox Poppin 02:42 Tools
Bessie Couldn't Help It 03:17 Tools
Blue Drag 03:01 Tools
I'm Nobodys Baby 02:39 Tools
Juanita 03:09 Tools
Swingin' The Jinx Away 03:04 Tools
My Woman 03:15 Tools
I Can't Dance, I Got Ants In My Pants 02:59 Tools
My Old Dog 03:04 Tools
Flat Foot Floogie (With the Floy Floy) 03:18 Tools
I Heard 02:18 Tools
That's My Home 02:40 Tools
When You're Smiling 02:58 Tools
Nagasaki 02:26 Tools
T'aint What You Do 03:17 Tools
Some of these days 03:10 Tools
Swanee 02:36 Tools
Stormy Weather 03:01 Tools
I ain't got nobody 03:18 Tools
Get Hot 02:55 Tools
Show Me the Way to Go Home 02:27 Tools
Oh, Mo'nah 03:34 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 02:52 Tools
T'Aint What You Do It's The Way You Do It 03:14 Tools
I Want To Be Happy 03:14 Tools
Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong 02:38 Tools
Hold Tight 02:58 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 02:51 Tools
Flat Foot Floogie 03:17 Tools
Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy 03:07 Tools
Carolina 02:40 Tools
On A Slow Boat To China 02:37 Tools
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 02:40 Tools
I Must See Annie Tonight 02:51 Tools
Someone Stole Gabriels Horn 02:43 Tools
You Wouldn't 02:41 Tools
Mister rhythm man 00:00 Tools
Just a Kid Named Joe 03:08 Tools
Spooky Takes A Holiday 03:09 Tools
Vox Poppin' 02:40 Tools
My Sweet Virginia 02:21 Tools
Chinese Laundry Blues 02:58 Tools
Hep! Hep! The Jumpin' Jive 02:42 Tools
Hesitation Blues 03:10 Tools
You Rascal You 03:00 Tools
I Only Want One Girl 02:12 Tools
Blow, Gabriel, Blow 03:05 Tools
The New Tiger Rag 02:50 Tools
T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) 03:09 Tools
Singin' the Blues 03:21 Tools
Pennies from Heaven 02:47 Tools
The Skeleton in the Cupboard 02:51 Tools
The Japanese Sandman 03:15 Tools
All For The Sake Of Love 02:57 Tools
I'll putcha pitcha in the paper 03:09 Tools
The Handsome Territorial 03:04 Tools
Blue, Turning Grey over You 03:14 Tools
Margie 02:46 Tools
Rockin Chair 03:03 Tools
Stack O'Lee Blues part I 02:24 Tools
When Your'e Smiling 03:02 Tools
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans 03:01 Tools
Always 03:14 Tools
Moon Country 02:54 Tools
The Dipsy Doodle 03:17 Tools
When You're Smiling - The Whole World Smiles With You 02:54 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm 03:01 Tools
Sweet Sue - Just You 02:56 Tools
Moanin' the Blues 03:18 Tools
Sing - It's Good For Ya 02:40 Tools
Ready For The River/Deep River 02:40 Tools
Shoo Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy 03:01 Tools
Blue Turning Grey Over You 03:09 Tools
Rain, Rain Go Away 02:32 Tools
Rhythm Is Our Business 02:39 Tools
Whoa Babe 02:53 Tools
Medley 02:51 Tools
Johnson Rag 02:45 Tools
Yeah Man 02:59 Tools
Blow That Horn 02:42 Tools
Stompin' at the Savoy 03:30 Tools
Just A Gigolo 02:45 Tools
Lady be good 02:39 Tools
Basin Street Blues 02:58 Tools
The Flat Foot Floogie 02:42 Tools
Lady, Be Good 02:59 Tools
The Continental 03:08 Tools
Sing (It's Good for You) 02:46 Tools
Lazy River 03:02 Tools
I Go For That 03:14 Tools
Moon Country - Is Home To Me 02:59 Tools
what a wonderful world 02:45 Tools
Farewell Blues 03:09 Tools
Somebody's Thinking of You Tonight 03:09 Tools
Confessin' 02:42 Tools
Oh Susannah 02:42 Tools
Wacky Dust 02:46 Tools
Hot Lips 02:45 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 02:42 Tools
One O'Clock Jump 02:58 Tools
How'm I Doin'? 02:40 Tools
Sunrise Serenade 03:02 Tools
I'll Swing You a Thousand Love Songs 02:42 Tools
A-Tisket-A-Tasket 03:06 Tools
Let Us Be Sweethearts Over Again 03:06 Tools
Boo-Hoo 02:46 Tools
Them There Eyes 03:27 Tools
Bill Tell 02:45 Tools
Oh Monah! 03:02 Tools
Shoot the Likker to My John Boy 03:02 Tools
Satchmo Blues 03:13 Tools
Sheik of Araby 03:05 Tools
Dinah 03:05 Tools
I Can't Get Started 02:56 Tools
Shine 03:13 Tools
The Three Little Fishes 03:02 Tools
How Long, How Long Blues 02:56 Tools
St. Louis Blues 03:13 Tools
T‘aint What You Do 03:17 Tools
How Am I to Know? 02:57 Tools
Faust, Act IV, Scène 3: Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux (Choeur) 02:57 Tools
Skrontch 03:19 Tools
Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) 02:35 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 04:24 Tools
Me Myself and I 03:13 Tools
Georgia 03:13 Tools
'Fox Trot Medley' - Intro: I Heard / St. Louis Blues / Runnin' Wild 03:13 Tools
Blow Gabriel Blow 03:02 Tools
You Came Along 03:05 Tools
Slow Boat To China 03:07 Tools
We Three 02:43 Tools
Gotta A Pebble In My Shoe 02:58 Tools
A-Tisket A-Tasket 02:58 Tools
Wild Man Blues 02:49 Tools
Swing And Sway 02:49 Tools
For No Reason At All 02:57 Tools
Wabash Blues 03:07 Tools
Murder 03:10 Tools
Hep Hep the Jumpin Jive 02:43 Tools
Black And Blue 03:07 Tools
Sing It's Good For You 03:13 Tools
Oh Mona 02:30 Tools
Crazy Valves 02:30 Tools
Georgia's Gorgeous Girl/Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia/Georgia On My Mind (Medley) 02:30 Tools
He Ain't Got Rhythm 02:30 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 03:15 Tools
T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) 03:15 Tools
Miss Otis Regrets 02:35 Tools
Put The Blame On Mame 02:56 Tools
Blues 03:13 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 02:35 Tools
A-Tisket A-Tasket (2003 Digital Remaster) 02:35 Tools
The Skeleton in the Closet 03:10 Tools
Swingin’ The Jinx Away 03:03 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 02:16 Tools
Running Wild 03:11 Tools
Moon Country (Is Home To Me) 02:30 Tools
I Can't Believe That You Are in Love With Me [16nJ] 03:15 Tools
My Gal Sal 03:07 Tools
Mama Don't Allow It 03:19 Tools
I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants In My Pants) 03:19 Tools
Five Minutes More 03:19 Tools
Boogie Wooglie Piggy 03:19 Tools
Murder! 03:13 Tools
Look What I've Got 02:16 Tools
Music Maestro Please 03:03 Tools
E Flat Blues 03:11 Tools
China Boy/I Never Knew/That's A-Plenty (Medley) 03:11 Tools
Oh, theyre tough 03:15 Tools
Oh Buddy I'm In Love 03:15 Tools
Måne Du Gamle Vän 03:15 Tools
Eadie Was a Lady 03:02 Tools
Its A Pair Of WingsFfor Me 03:02 Tools
I Can't Dance 03:02 Tools
If I Had You 03:02 Tools
When Your Smiling 03:02 Tools
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy 00:00 Tools
Lying in the Hay 00:00 Tools
The Sheik of Araby 00:00 Tools
One Meat Ball 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Be the Same Sweetheart To Me 00:00 Tools
La-De-De, La-De-Da 00:00 Tools
Oh! Mr. Moon 02:45 Tools
Oh They're Tough, Mighty Tough In The West - Original Mono 03:14 Tools
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Nathaniel Charles (Nat) Gonella (7 March 1908–6 August 1998) was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist and mellophonist born in London, perhaps most notable for his work with the big band he founded, The Georgians. Gonella played and recorded with many prominent jazz musicians, including Billy Cotton, Archie Alexander, Digby Fairweather and Lew Stone. His distinctive vocal style was reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, though the voice was often eclipsed by his achievements as a band leader and trumpeter. Gonella has been a major influence on other British jazz trumpeters, including Humphrey Lyttelton and Digby Fairweather. Gonella was born in a deprived area of East London, but took up cornet while attending an institution for underprivileged children, St Mary's Guardian School in Islington. His first professional job arrived when, after a short spell as a furrier's apprentice, he joined Archie Pitt's Busby Boy's Band in 1924, a small junior pit orchestra and touring review band. He remained with the band until 1928, and it was during this period that he became acquainted with the early recordings of Louis Armstrong, and the New Orleans jazz style in general. He transcribed Armstrong's solos and learned them by heart, and went on to develop his own individual variation on the style in time-honoured jazz fashion. He worked with Bob Bryden's Louisville Band for a time in 1928-9, and with pianist Archie Alexander in Brighton, then joined the Billy Cotton band at the end of 1929, a move which provided him with a more prominent platform, both on the concert stage and also on radio, and allowed him to record his first jazz solos and vocal features. He played briefly with Roy Fox in 1931, and then joined Lew Stone the following year, where he firmly established his reputation. He managed to meet his idol when Armstrong visited London in 1932, by begging the staff at Boosey and Hawkes's music shop to allow him to return Armstrong's trumpet, left at the shop for cleaning, to his hotel room. The American was apparently initially amused to find such an ardent devotee, but appreciated his willingness to help, and the pair became good friends. Gonella's standing grew even more quickly after the formation of his own band, The Georgians, in 1935. They took their name from Gonella's highly-popular version of "Georgia On My Mind", which he recorded for Lew Stone in 1932, and began as a featured band within Stone's shows, before setting up as an independent unit. Gonella formed his own big band, and quickly became a headline artist on the still-thriving variety circuit, and they continued to top bills around the country until the outbreak of the war. He joined the army in 1941, and was recruited into the Stars in Battledress campaign, touring allied camps in Europe and North Africa. Whilst in Europe and North Africa Gonella served as the personal servant or Batman (military) to Major Alexander Karet and once the war had ended was offered the position as personal Butler to the Major but politely refused to peruse his music career. He reformed his band after the war, but the economic and musical climate was changing rapidly at that time. He flirted briefly with bebop, acknowledged that it was not for him, and returned to the variety stage during the Fifties, touring with the likes of the comedian Max Miller. The revival in traditional jazz in the late Fifties allowed him to reform his Georgians in 1960, and he was featurd on the television show This Is Your Life the following year. Which yielded an album for him, The Nat Gonella Story, modelled on Armstrong's A Musical Autobiography. All of this attention re-established Gonella as a major name, at least until the advent of The Beatles brought the trad jazz boom to a shuddering halt. He moved to Lancashire in 1962, and toured regularly on the Northern club circuit until his alleged retirement on the occasion of his 65th birthday, on 7 March, 1973. That retirement did not last long. Drummer Ted Easton persauded him to come to his club in Holland to play during the mid-1970s, and a new recording of a song he had first cut with Roy Fox in 1931, "Oh, Monah", became a big hit in Holland. It was to be his final flourish on trumpet, but he continued to sing after moving to Gosport, Hampshire, in 1977, where a square was re-named in his honour in 1994, and was always happy to stand up and do so in a local pubs or at the Gosport Jazz Club. Digby Fairweather's New Georgians paid tribute to Gonella's musical heritage in 1984, and Fairweather and fellow trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton co-hosted a television tribute, Fifty Years of Nat Gonella, the following year, in which Gonella himself was an enthusiastic participant. He continued to sing occasionally with various bands, and made the headlines again in 1997 when a sampled excerpt of his trumpet playing from a recording he made in 1932 was used in White Town's number one pop hit, "Your Woman". Nat Gonella died at his home on August 6, 1998 in Gosport aged 90. Gonella was a down to earth and unassuming character, and remained so throughout his life. Humphrey Lyttelton is among those who have testified to the fact that fame and success sat easily on his shoulders, and reports that he would show genuinely astonishment when Lyttelton would confess, as well as other prominent musicians, to Gonella having been his first jazz hero. Read more on Last.fm. 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