Editing Nat King Cole (section)

==Posthumous releases==
Cole's last album, ''[[L-O-V-E (album)|L-O-V-E]]'', was recorded in early December 1964—just a few days before he entered the hospital for cancer treatment—and was released just before his death. It peaked at number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Albums chart in the spring of 1965. A ''Best Of'' album was certified a gold record in 1968. His 1957 recording of "When I Fall in Love" reached number 4 in the UK charts in 1987, released in reaction to a version by [[Rick Astley]] challenging for the coveted Christmas number 1 spot.

In 1983, an archivist for EMI [[Electrola]] Records, a subsidiary of [[EMI]] (Capitol's parent company until 2013) in Germany, discovered some unreleased recordings by Cole, including one in Japanese and another in Spanish ("Tu Eres Tan Amable"). Capitol released them later that year as the LP ''Unreleased''.

In 1991, [[Mosaic Records]] released ''The Complete Capitol Records Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio'', a compilation of 349 songs available as an 18-[[Compact disc|CD]] or a 27-[[LP record|LP]] set. In 2008, it was re-released in digital-download format through services like [[iTunes]] and [[Amazon Music]].

Also in 1991, [[Natalie Cole]] recorded a new vocal track that was mixed with her father's 1961 stereo re-recording of his 1951 hit "[[Unforgettable (Nat King Cole song)|Unforgettable]]" for a tribute album of the same title on [[Elektra Records]]. The song and album won seven Grammy awards in 1992 for Best Album and Best Song.

There have been many tribute albums, including one by his brother, Freddy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/he-was-the-king-mw0002915537|title=He Was the King / Freddy Cole|access-date=2 March 2024|website = [[allmusic.com]]}}</ref> [[Randy Napoleon]], [[Freddy Cole]]'s guitarist and arranger for 13 years, has performed and recorded tributes to the Cole family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theshedd.org/divp/series.aspx?event=6412|access-date=2 March 2024|title = Now Hear This 2023-24 / Randy Napoleon / The Cole School|website = [[The Shedd Institute]]}}</ref>

In 2009, the year of the inauguration of [[Barack Obama]] as America's first black president, Capitol released an album ''Voices of Change, Then and Now''. On this album is the song "We Are Americans Too" that Capitol did not release in 1956, the year that Nat King Cole wrote it.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-20-et-backtracking20-story.html | title=Singing for civil rights | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=January 20, 2009 }}</ref>