Word: cole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every foreseeable hit on to wax before James Caesar Petrillo put an end to it all on Dec. 31. But who could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...
Last fall Eden, who wears his hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...
Head Start. When he got back, Cole was waiting for him with a contract for his song. Capitol made a sneak recording of it, backing Cole's voice with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature...
...PARTNERSHIP (544 pp.)-Beatrice Webb, edited by Barbara Drake and Margaret I. Cole-Longmans, Green...
...Cole asserts that it was the robbers, not the management which forced the Coop out of the "banking business...