If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes

~ Recording by The Nat King Cole Trio

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.14If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes3:07The Nat King Cole TrioThe Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole TrioThe Nat King Cole TrioAlbum + Compilation
Mosaic Records (US jazz reissues)MD18-138
1.4If You Can't Smile and Say Yes3:06The Nat King Cole TrioThe Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: Vocal Classics (1942–1946)The Nat King Cole TrioAlbum + Compilation
Capitol Jazz
1.4If You Can't Smile and Say Yes3:07King Cole TrioThe Chronological Classics: Nat "King" Cole 1943-1944Nat "King" ColeAlbum + Compilation
Classics Records (compilations of the Chronological Series)804
2.8If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes3:07Nat King Cole TrioThe Quintessence, Vol. 1: Los Angeles – Chicago – Hollywood – New York 1936–1944Nat King ColeAlbum + Compilation
Frémeaux & AssociésFA 208
1.18If You Can't Smile and Say Yes, Please Don't Cry and Say No3:07The Nat King Cole TrioA Portrait of the Nat King Cole TrioThe Nat King Cole TrioAlbum + Compilation
  • DE1998-05-18
GallerieGale 428
1.9If You Can't Smile And Say Yes (Please Don't Cry And Say No)3:04Nat King ColeMasterpieces, 19Nat King ColeAlbum + Compilation
  • -1998-08-04
EPM Musique159172
1.7If You Can't Smile and Say Yes3:07Nat King ColeThe Great Nat King ColeNat King ColeAlbum + Compilation
RedX EntertainmentRXBOX31047
2.1If You Can Smile and Say Yes3:08The Nat King Cole TrioTrio ClassicsThe Nat King Cole TrioAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2001-09-10
Charly RecordsCPCD 8261-2
1.17If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes3:07The Nat King Cole TrioCool Cole: The King Cole Trio StoryThe Nat King Cole TrioAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-01-05
Proper RecordsPROPERBOX 31
1.8If You Can't Smile and Say Yes3:04The Nat King Cole TrioThe Sunny Side of the StreetThe Nat King Cole TrioHallmark Records (Pickwick UK imprint, unrelated to the US Hallmark greeting card label)330062

Relationships

double bass:Red Callender (on 1943-11-30)
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-11-30)
guitar:Oscar Moore (on 1943-11-30)
piano:Nat King Cole (on 1943-11-30)
vocals:Nat King Cole (on 1943-11-30)
Johnny Miller (part of the Nat King Cole Trio) (on 1943-11-30)
Oscar Moore (on 1943-11-30)
recorded at:C. P. MacGregor Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (on 1943-11-30)
recording of:If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes (on 1943-11-30)

If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes

writer:Louis Jordan (US jazz, blues and r&b musician and songwriter)
Timmie Rogers