Where Did Everyone Go?

Where Did Everyone Go? is a 1963 studio album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Gordon Jenkins.^[1] This was the fourth and final album that Cole and Jenkins recorded together, following Love Is the Thing (1957), The Very Thought of You (1958) and Every Time I Feel the Spirit (1959).

Where Did Everyone Go?
Studio album by Nat King Cole
Released	May 1963
Recorded	August 13–14, 1962
Studio	Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	38:03
Label	Capitol
Producer	Lee Gillette
Nat King Cole chronology
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer (1963) Where Did Everyone Go? (1963) Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady (1964)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(not rated) [1]
New Record Mirror	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated May 25, 1963, and remained on the chart for six weeks, peaking at number 68.^[4] It debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated April 27, 1963, and remained on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at number 75.^[5]

Reception

The initial Billboard review from April 13, 1963 commented that "Here he is in a superb collection of ballad tunes, many of them in a lonesome, blue mood, with standout backing provided by Gordon Jenkins...Great mood wax for buyers and spinners".^[6]

The Allmusic review of Where Did Everyone Go? by Lindsay Planer said "there is a perceptible poignancy and longing weaved throughout Jenkins' arrangements. The opener "Where Did Everyone Go?" possesses a solitude accentuated by responsive instrumentation that supports, yet never intrudes. Cole's practically conversational delivery of pop standards...become musical soliloquies with the score as a sonic subtext."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Where Did Everyone Go?" (Mack David, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:35
2. "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) – 3:06
3. "If Love Ain't There" (Johnny Burke) – 3:10
4. "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (M. Philippe Gerard, Angela Vannier, Johnny Mercer) – 4:01
5. "Am I Blue" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) – 3:01
6. "Someone to Tell It To" (Sammy Cahn, Dolores Fuller, Van Heusen) – 3:16
7. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 3:10
8. "I Keep Going Back to Joe's" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:38
9. "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" (Ben Raleigh, Bernie Wayne) – 2:47
10. "No, I Don't Want Her" (Joe Bailey) – 3:03
11. "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:34
12. "That's All There Is (There Isn't Anymore)" (Gordon Jenkins) – 2:42

Personnel

• Nat King Cole – vocal
• Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor