[78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!!

[David Lennick]

Once in the late 80s, I was trying to get hold of Stan Freberg CDs through Capitol Records of Canada. It took 15 minutes before they found someone in Special Marketing who knew who Freberg was. (I eventually found the CDs in Detroit..)

 

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> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 11:08:57 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!!
> 
> “Oh, the ignorance of record companies!!!!”
> 
> Reportedly, Nat Cole went to the Capitol Records headquarters for an 
> appointment. A receptionist asked him his name and had no idea who he 
> was. When the wife of a friend of mine was quite young, she served as a 
> receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. One day a man 
> came in for an appointment. She announced him as “Sam Berg.” It was 
> Carl Sandberg.
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