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.
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, Madeline 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" (Ray 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
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