[78-L] Fwd: Nat Cole and Capitol

[Cary Ginell]

Didn't know Sam was Jewish.

Live some, ya learn some.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:02:43 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Fwd: Nat Cole and Capitol
> 
> Geoffrey still can't send messages to the list but this one is too good not to 
> pass on.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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	
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