Ron Chaplin wrote: >Lowell Herbrandson wrote: > >>PS: Nat King Cole was considered by many to have been the best jazz >>pianist of his generation. > >Nat King Cole WAS great! I remember hearing a story (IIRC) of how, after >he had hit it big with his, unfortunately, short-running variety show, he >went to Switzerland to do a concert. The audience didn't want to hear him >sing at all. They wanted to hear him play. One of my wife's first jobs on coming to DC was to keep the books for a local night club, now defunct. She also took reservation calls. When Nat King Cole was the club's guest entertainer, she got a call from someone claiming that NKC had specially arranged a reservation for his party, did they have it recorded? Ever sans guile, my wife to be replied, "I'm sorry, we have no record of a reservation arranged for you, but we still have tables available and can reserve one for you." I wonder whether this made the caller feel good or bad. Walter Meyer