Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

“Mona Lisa“ is a song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, . (1950). It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1950. The arrangement was by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra. The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent eight weeks at number one in the Billboard singles chart in 1950. Also, Cole’s version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. The Billboard sales charts
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