Natalie Cole - Midnight Sun (Live @ USC Galen Center) 2007

“Midnight Sun“ (1954) was originally an instrumental composed by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke in 1947 and is now considered a jazz standard. Subsequently, Johnny Mercer wrote the words to the song. One famous recording of the song with the Mercer lyrics is by Ella Fitzgerald on her album Like Someone in Love (1957). Ella recorded this again in 1975 with jazz pianist Oscar Peterson on the Pablo release Ella and Oscar. On April 29, 2007, the Galen Center hosted a birthday party for the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald. Vocalists Natalie Cole, Nancy Wilson, Wynonna Judd and Patti Austin as well as musicians Quincy Jones, James Moody and many others performed with the USC Thornton Jazz Orchestra and members of the USC Thornton Symphony, directed by Shelly Berg, on what would have been the late Fitzgerald’s 90th birthday. Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 - December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of Nat King Cole, Cole rose to musical su