This day in music history.

November 30, 1943, The Nat King Cole trio recorded Straighten Up And Fly Right for Capitol Records. It was the first recording for the King Cole trio. Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in 1920 in Montgomery, Alabama. At the age of four he had the only music teacher he would ever have. During the next 20 years he learned not only jazz and gospel, but classical as well, performing, as he said, "from Bach to Rachmaninoff". Cole was the first black jazz musician to have his own weekly radio show (1948-49). The King Cole Trio consisted of Nat on piano, Oscar Moore on guitar and Wesley Prince on bass (there was no drummer). Even after becoming one of the most popular singers in the world Nat told The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, "My voice is nothing to be proud of. It runs maybe two octaves in range. I guess it's the hoarse, breathy noise that some like."
Straighten Up And Fly Right by The King Cole Trio.
A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said-- Now listen, Jack
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.
Ain't no use in divin' What's the use in jivin'
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.
The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me
Release your hold and I'll set you free
The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said
Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.