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Where Did Everyone Go?
Studio album by Nat King Cole
Released	May 1963
Recorded	August 13–14, 1962
Studio	Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	38:03
Label	Capitol
Producer	Lee Gillette
Nat King Cole chronology
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer (1963) Where Did Everyone Go? (1963) Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady (1964)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	(not rated)
New Record Mirror

Where Did Everyone Go? is a 1963 studio album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. This was the fourth and final album that Cole and Jenkins recorded together, following Love Is the Thing (1957), The Very Thought of You (1958) and Every Time I Feel the Spirit (1959).

Reception

The initial Billboard review from April 13, 1963 commented that "Here he is in a superb collection of ballad tunes, many of them in a lonesome, blue mood, with standout backing provided by Gordon Jenkins...Great mood wax for buyers and spinners".

The Allmusic review of Where Did Everyone Go? by Lindsay Planer said "there is a perceptible poignancy and longing weaved throughout Jenkins' arrangements. The opener "Where Did Everyone Go?" possesses a solitude accentuated by responsive instrumentation that supports, yet never intrudes. Cole's practically conversational delivery of pop standards...become musical soliloquies with the score as a sonic subtext."

Track listing

1. "Where Did Everyone Go?" (Mack David, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:35
2. "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) – 3:06
3. "If Love Ain't There" (Johnny Burke) – 3:10
4. "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (M. Philippe Gerard, Angela Vannier, Johnny Mercer) – 4:01
5. "Am I Blue" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) – 3:01
6. "Someone to Tell It To" (Sammy Cahn, Dolores Fuller, Van Heusen) – 3:16
7. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 3:10
8. "I Keep Going Back to Joe's" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:38
9. "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" (Ben Raleigh, Bernie Wayne) – 2:47
10. "No, I Don't Want Her" (Joe Bailey) – 3:03
11. "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:34
12. "That's All There Is (There Isn't Anymore)" (Gordon Jenkins) – 2:42

Personnel

Performance

• Nat King Cole – vocal
• Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor

References

1. ^ Planer, Lindsay. "Where Did Everyone Go?". Allmusic. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
2. Watson, Jimmy (27 July 1963). "Nat King Cole: Where Did Everyone Go?" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 124. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
3. "Album Reviews: Pop Spotlight". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 13 April 1963. p. 29. ISSN 0006-2510.

• 1963 albums
• Nat King Cole albums
• Albums arranged by Gordon Jenkins
• Capitol Records albums
• Albums conducted by Gordon Jenkins
• Albums recorded at Capitol Studios