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Ralph Marterie - Pretend - 1952 Though best-remembered via…

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Ralph Marterie - Pretend - 1952

Though best-remembered via the subsequent Nat King Cole-Nelson Riddle best-seller, “ Pretend ” was initially recorded and charted in this instrumental treatment by the Marterie band.

The original single was issued on Mercury 70045 - Pretend (Douglas-Parman-LaVere) by Ralph Marterie & his Orchestra, recorded October 1952.

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 The order is the interesting part. Marterie's band got "Pretend" onto Mercury 70045 and the charts before the Nat King Cole-Nelson Riddle record became the one people remember. An instrumental leading a song that later lived on a vocal is a strange little reversal. Did the trumpet carry the line the way Cole's voice later did, or was it more of a section feature?

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