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Nat King Cole, vlastným menom Nathaniel Adams Coles , bol americký džezový pianista, hudobný skladateľ a spevák s jemným barytónovým hlasom. Ako jeden z prvých Afroameričanov sa pravidelne objavoval v televíznych reláciách a po smrti dosiahol celosvetovú popularitu. Radí sa medzi najvýznamnejšie postavy hudobnej histórie USA. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. marec 1919 – 15. február 1965
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“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/award_recipient_detail.asp?awardRecipientId=44&ceremonyId=4 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

“I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.”

Spoken in VOA interview http://www.library.unt.edu/resolveuid/24bc6899959ba29ac6feca22c5ad8ed9 broadcast on Pop Chronicles Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19775/m1/
Also on cassette 3, side B of [Gilliland, John, w:John Gilliland, Pop Chronicles the 40's: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40's, 978-1-55935-147-8, 31611854, 1994, Mind's Eye, audiobook]

“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings