Cole was exposed to the greats of jazz, soul and blues at an early age and began performing at the age of 11. Her debut album in 1975, Inseparable, won her immediate praise, with the smash single This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (#1 R&B, #6 Pop) winning her a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female, a category that had been monopolized by Aretha Franklin, since its inception in 1967. She also was named the Grammys' Best New Artist of 1975. She attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, MA.
More hits followed through 1980, including her biggest Pop hit, 1977's I've Got Love On My Mind, as well as Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady) (1976), Our Love (1978), and Someone That I Used To Love (1980). "I've Got Love On My Mind" and "Our Love" both earned certifications as Gold singles. But then her career hit a snag in the early 1980s due to a severe drug problem. By 1985, Natalie was clean, sober, and in fine voice, and ready to begin her comeback in earnest with the album Dangerous, released on the Modern label.
In 1987, she released Everlasting (on EMI Manhattan) which sold over 2 million copies in the U.S., and won Cole a Soul Train Award for Female Single of the Year for the #1 R&B ballad I Live for Your Love. This album was the one that put Natalie Cole firmly back in the spotlight, yielding three major hit singles: Jump Start, "I Live For Your Love" (#2 AC and #13 Pop as well as #1 R&B), and a successful remake of Bruce Springsteen's Pink Cadillac (#5 Pop, #16 AC, and #1 Dance). The album also included a taste of things to come in her career with a remake of one of her father's signature hits, "When I Fall In Love," which did moderately well on the AC chart. In 1989, the aptly-titled Good To Be Back gave her another across-the-board smash with "Miss You Like Crazy" (#1 both R&B and AC, and #7 Pop).
However, it was her 1991 album, Unforgettable... with Love, featuring her own arrangements of her father's greatest hits, that gave her the most success. Ironically, when Natalie began her career, she was determined not to capitalize on her father's name and wanted to forge her own identity by going after the soul market in earnest. For many years, she also found the prospect of recording her late father's songs too painful on a personal level. But Unforgettable... With Love certainly paid off. The set sold over 5 million copies in the United States alone, and won Cole several Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. The album featured a duet, the title track, with her father, created by splicing a recording of his vocals into the track. As a single, it reached #14 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart, and went gold. The one sour spot in the album's success was that it strained Natalie's already-tumultuous relationship with her mother, Maria, who said in interviews at the time that she couldn't listen to the album or attend any of her daughter's concerts because she felt that the music really belonged to her late husband.
Natalie has released several more albums of pop standards in the years since; as a result of appealing to the "adult standards" audience, she has made only occasional forays onto the pop singles charts in that time (for example, "A Smile Like Yours," #8 AC and #84 Pop in 1997), although her albums still sell well. Her 1999 album Snowfall On The Sahara marked a return to the easy adult-contemporary soul that categorized her late-1980s hits, but for 2002's critically-praised Ask A Woman Who Knows, she turned more to the jazz side of the spectrum, covering songs made famous by Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan.
Battle With Drugs
In 2000, Cole released an autobiography, Angel on my Shoulder, which described her battle with drugs during much of her life. In the book, Cole admitted to using LSD, heroin and crack cocaine. Cole said she began experimenting with drugs while attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was arrested in Toronto, Canada for possession of heroin in 1975. Cole continued to spiral out of control - including an incident in which her young son Robert nearly drowned in the family swimming pool while she and her first husband, the late Reverend Marvin Yancy were on a drug binge - until she entered rehab in 1983.
In concert with the release of the book, her autobiography was turned into a made-for-TV movie, The Natalie Cole Story, which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC.
Natalie has been married three times and has a son Robert Yancy (by Marvin Yancy), born in 1977. She later married former Rufus drummer Andre Fischer, who co-produced the Grammy Award-winning Unforgettable... With Love, Natalie's love offering featuring songs made famous by her father, including a faux-duet between her and her father.
The marriage to Fischer ended in divorce a few years later, amidst rumors of domestic verbal and physical abuse.
It has also been reported that Natalie has recovered from a life-threatening hepatitis illness (most likely the cause of her years of drug abuse) by having a liver transplant.
Miss Cole went on to release more albums after Unforgettable...With Love, with most of them featuring jazz-oriented standard songs or pop-song remakes. None of the albums were nearly as successful as Unforgettable...With Love.
As of 2013, Natalie Cole spent most of her professional time covering the concert circuit entertaining audiences around the world with her hits.
On December 31, 2015, Natalie Cole died from congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was aged 65.
I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life
Natalie Cole Lyrics
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Laugh, and forget this affair
Guess I was foolish
To care.
So I'm gonna dance you right out of my dreams,
Try to be carefree and gay
I guess I'll learn to play
'cause when our friends begin that
Heartless rumor,
I know I'll really need my
Sense of humor.
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
Make it a beautiful joke.
No one will know you broke
My heart.
But if I find you and I
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard,
I'll cry.
But if I find you and I
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard
I'll cry.
The song "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life" by Natalie Cole is a powerful anthem about moving on from a broken relationship. The lyrics speak to the idea of letting go of someone who has caused heartbreak and pain, and doing so with humor and grace. The first verse begins with the proclamation that the singer is going to laugh the person who has hurt them right out of their life. They talk about forgetting the affair and feeling foolish for having cared in the first place. This suggests that the relationship ended badly and the singer is ready to move on.
The second verse continues with the theme of moving on and finding ways to forget the person who caused the pain. This time, the singer speaks about "dancing" the person out of their dreams and trying to be carefree and happy. They also acknowledge that it will take time to fully move on and learn how to play the part of someone who is not affected by heartbreak. The bridge of the song introduces a new element - the idea that the singer will need their sense of humor when their friends start talking about the breakup. This suggests that the breakup was public in some way and that the singer will need to have a thick skin in order to deal with the gossip.
The final chorus brings the song to a conclusion with a powerful message - the singer will laugh the person out of their life, but if they find out that the goodbye was real and that the relationship is truly over, they will "laugh so hard, [they'll] cry." This shows a vulnerability and depth of emotion that runs throughout the song, despite the singer's efforts to present a strong front of laughter and humor.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
I will use humor to get over the pain of this breakup and remove you from my life.
Laugh and forget this affair
I'll laugh and move on from the relationship.
Guess I was foolish
Realizing that I made a mistake by caring too much for you.
To care.
The pain of realizing that my emotions were misplaced.
So I'm gonna dance you right out of my dreams,
I'll dance away from the memories and thoughts of you.
Try to be carefree and gay
I'll attempt to have fun and enjoy myself without you.
I guess I'll learn to play
I will learn how to put on a façade and pretend to be okay.
The part.
I'll act like I'm happy and moving on even if I'm really not.
'Cause when our friends begin that
When our friends start spreading rumors about us,
Heartless rumor,
Hurtful and untrue gossip
I know I'll really need my
I realize that it will be important for me to have my
Sense of humor.
Ability to find humor in the situation to keep me from feeling too hurt or angry.
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
I'll use humor to cut you off for good.
Make it a beautiful joke.
I'll turn the situation into something beautiful and humorous.
No one will know you broke
Nobody will be aware that you have caused me pain,
My heart.
My innermost feelings.
But if I find you and I
If I discover that we
Really meant that last goodbye,
Truly intended to end things forever,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard,
In that case, I will laugh extremely loud and hard,
I'll cry.
My emotions will become so overwhelming that I'll start crying.
But if I find you and I
If I discover that we
Really meant that last goodbye,
Truly intended to end things forever,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard
In that case, I will laugh extremely loud and hard
I'll cry.
My emotions will become so overwhelming that I'll start crying.
Lyrics © WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC
Written by: CY COLEMAN, JOSEPH MCCARTHY JR.
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