[78-L] Fwd: Nat Cole and Capitol

[David Lennick]

Geoffrey still can't send messages to the list but this one is too good not to 
pass on.

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Subject: Nat Cole and Capitol
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: dialjazz at frontier.com
To: dlennick at sympatico.ca

Hi David,

Regarding how little record company employees may know, I heard a story of how 
Nat Cole visited Capitol Records one day in the 1950s and the receptionist 
didn't know who he was. Sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, a young 
woman destined to be the wife of a friend of mine told us about one of the 
people who came to visit her boss. At the time, she worked for the Museum of 
Modern Art in New York. She introduced the visitor as "Sam Berg". It was Carl 
Sandburg.

Geoffrey

On 5/23/2011 11:09 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>
> I still cite the time in the late 80s when I called Capitol's Canadian head
> office to find out if they had any Stan Freberg CDs. I was put on hold for
> about 15 minutes while they found someone in Special Products who had heard of
> Freberg.
>
> And I ended up buying the CD in Detroit.
>
> dl