SONG.REVIEWSAmerican jazz pianist and vocalist who started the 1940s fronting the King Cole Trio before becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century as a solo singer. The trio's 1946 recording of "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of the first versions of a song that went on to become a jazz and pop standard, covered by dozens of artists across the decades that followed.
Greatest of All Time!Bobby Troup wrote it on a cross-country drive and the King Cole Trio cut it the same year -- an 80-year-old road song that's been recorded by more artists than almost anything else on this list.
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Greatest of All Time!Nat King Cole's 1951 ballad is remembered today as much for a 1991 duet he never recorded as for the arrangement he actually sang -- and the original is the better record by a wide margin.
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