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- Calloway,
Cab
- Carmichael,
Hoagy
- Carter,
Betty
- Clooney,
Rosemary
- Christy,
June
- Charles,
Ray
- Cole,
Freddie
- Cole,
Natalie
- Cole,
Nat King
- Conner,
Chris
- Connick,
Harry, Jr.
- Cook,
Carla
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- Calloway,
Blanche
- Calloway,
Chris
- Camerun,
Romy
- Campbell,
Carey
- Campbell,
Mike
- Carol,
Brenda
- Carter,
Deborah J.
- Cerrone,
Grace
- Charlene
Cochran &The Fifth Avenue Band
- Christy,
June
- Cole,
Kathryn
- Cookman,
Louise
- Cooper,
Jacki
- Cornelious,
Eve
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King Cole by Daniel Mark Epstein
When
he died in 1965, at age forty-five, Nat King Cole was already
a musical legend. As famous as Frank Sinatra, he had sold
more records than anyone but Bing Crosby. Written with the
narrative pacing of a novel, this absorbing biography traces
Cole's rise to fame, from boy-wonder jazz genius to megastar
in a racist society. Daniel Mark Epstein brings Cole and
his times to vivid life: his precocious entrance onto the
vibrant jazz scene of his hometown, Chicago; the creation
of his Trio and their rise to fame; the crossover success
of such songs as "Straighten Up and Fly Right";
and his years as a pop singer and television star, the first
African-American to have his own show. Epstein examines
Cole's insistence on changing society through his art rather
than political activism, the romantic love story of Cole
and Maria Ellington, and Cole's famous and influential image
of calm, poise, and elegance, which concealed the personal
turmoil and anxiety that undermined his health.
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