Penthouse Serenade

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Penthouse Serenade
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Studio album by
Nat King Cole
ReleasedSeptember 1952
Recorded1951–1952
Genre Jazz
Length23:05 (10" LP Release - 1952)

33:38 (12" LP Release - 1955)

50:13 (CD Release - 1998)
Label Capitol
Producer Lee Gillette
Nat King Cole chronology
King Cole for Kids
(1951)		Penthouse Serenade
(1952)		 Top Pops
(1952)
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Penthouse Serenade is an instrumental jazz quartet album by Nat King Cole. It was released initially as a 10-inch LP in September 1952 on Capitol Records. An expanded 12-track version was reissued in 1955 and a 19-track version (13-19 being vocal tracks) was reissued in 1998. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in the issue dated October 17, 1952. [2]

Contents

Track listing

Original 1952 10-inch LP album release

  1. "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" (Val Burton, Will Jason) – 3:06
  2. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 3:03
  3. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 2:43
  4. "Once in a Blue Moon" (Anne Caldwell, Jerome Kern based on Rubenstein's Melody In F) – 2:55
  5. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:03
  6. "Down by the Old Mill Stream" (Tell Taylor) – 2:18
  7. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:11
  8. "Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams) – 2:46

4 tracks added for the 1955 12-inch LP re-issue

  2. "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 2:57
  3. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:46
  4. "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:02
  5. "Little Girl" (Francis Henry, Harry Hyde) – 1:48

Additional bonus tracks added to later 1998 CD release

  2. "I Surrender Dear" (Barris, Clifford) (alt. take) – 3:00
  3. "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:11
  4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard Whiting) – 1:53
  5. "Too Young" (Sylvia Dee, Sidney Lippman) – 2:32
  6. "That's My Girl" (Duke Ellington, Barbara Tobias) – 1:45
  7. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:09
  8. "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) – 3:05

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. Nat King Cole – Penthouse Serendade: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 32. Retrieved October 23, 2025.


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