Penthouse Serenade
# Penthouse Serenade

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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.

## Track listing

original 1952 10 inch LP album release:

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

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

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

additional bonus tracks added to later 1998 CD release:

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

## Personnel

* Nat King Cole - piano, vocals
* John Collins - guitar
* Jack Costanzo - bongos, congas
* Charlie Harris - bass
* Norris "Bunny" Shawker - drums
* Lee Young - drums

### Production

* Lee Gillette - producer
* Michael Cuscuna - reissue producer
* Will Friedwald - liner notes
