[78-L] Fwd: Nat Cole and Capitol

[Gene Baron]

Going on shaky memory here, but I think Gene Lees in his "Singer and the
Song" book reports something similar happening to Johnny Mercer (one of the
founders of Capitol), who called the company in later yeears and got the
'who are you?' treatment as well.  Hope I am remembering this correctly.

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com




On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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