Nat King Cole #1439

Caption from poster__       Nat King Cole    " Sponsors don't have guts. Madison Avenue  is afraid of the dark. - Nat King Cole on the   cancellation of the "Nat King Cole Show" for   lack of advertisers, December 1957."     Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 15, 1919, he was four when the family moved to Chicago. His father was a Baptist preacher, and his mother, a choir director, passed on her love of music to the children. Nat’s older brother Eddie was a professional bassist and his youngest brother, (Lionel) Freddy, is a renowned pianist/vocalist. Nat received formal music education, played organ in the church, and turned professional in his teens, dropping the “s” from his last name. In 1937 Nat was touring with Shuffle Along when the company was stranded in California. He stayed on the West coast, put together his first trio with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Wesley Prince and was crowned “King” Cole after the nursery rhyme. Cole had begun sin