[78-L] Fwd: Nat Cole and Capitol

[Royal Pemberton]

I've heard the story of when Nat rang Capitol sometime in the mid-1960s and
the receptionist answered the phone 'Capitol Records, home of the
Beatles....' and Nat was none too pleased.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

>
> 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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