This stamp was one of a series honoring popular American singers, which included Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Ethel Merman, and Ethel Waters.

His musical idols growing up also included Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and Nat King Cole.

At DuSable High School his classmates included Nat King Cole, Redd Foxx and future entrepreneur William Abernathy.

Some of the most notable Jazz artists of the 1940s include Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole.

Hunter's influences include Art Tatum, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Nat King Cole.

The first inductees will include Nat (King) Cole, Moms Mabley, Duke Ellington and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson.

His major vocal influences include Nat Cole and New Jersey jazz singer/accordionist Joe Mooney, known for his relaxed singing style.

Apart from his father, Steve's early musical influences include The Four Seasons, Nat King Cole, The Temptations, Ricky Nelson, and Gene Pitney.

The committee's supporters included Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Nat King Cole, and Anthony Quinn.

Births in that year included Art Blakey and Nat King Cole.