"Ramblin' Rose" is a 1962 popular

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 song

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 written by brothers Noel and Joe Sherman and popularized by Nat King Cole

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Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...

. Cole's recording of the song was released by Capitol Records

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 as catalog number

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 4804. It reached number two on both the Billboard

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and Cash Box charts and sold over a million copies as a single. The song spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and the Australian charts, while on the R&B chart

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, the song reached number seven. It was released as a single

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 from Cole's album of the same name

Ramblin' Rose (album)

Ramblin' Rose is a Nat King Cole Album. It was released by Capitol Records in 1962, and features the popular title track.-Track listing:# "Ramblin' Rose" – 2:46# "Wolverton Mountain" – 3:03...

, which also was a million seller. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award

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 in the category Record of the Year

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.

The song has been covered

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 by many artists. There are two 1970s country music

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 versions of the song: a version by Johnny Lee

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 reached number 37 on the Billboard country chart

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 in 1977; the following year, singer Hank Snow

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's version charted at number 93.

Petula Clark

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 released a French version in 1962, titled "Les Beaux Jours". Her recording reached #10 in the French charts in 1963.

There is another well-known song called Ramblin' Rose, recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis

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 and MC5

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in the 1960s; although it has the same title it is a different song, written by Wilkin and Burch, and not to be confused with the Nat King Cole hit.