Backstage Weekend - Nancy Wilson and Nat King Cole at The Hollywood Bowl - 1964
By Gordonskene Saturday Oct 10, 2009 1:22pm
(Nancy Wilson - Nat "King" Cole - In a word, magic)
October 4, 1964 - hard to imagine it was 45 years ago this past week, but that particular Sunday night saw an extraordinary group of people assembled on stage at the Hollywood Bowl to raise funds and awareness for defeating a Proposition on the November ballot. Proposition 14, or the attempt by Realtor groups and the John Birch Society to nullify the Rumford Fair Housing Initiative that passed in 1963. A veritable who's who of Hollywood, with orchestra led by none other than Nelson Riddle and emcee's Joey Bishop and Milton Berle introducing a lineup of talent that included Nancy Wilson and Nat "King" Cole.
I've extracted the Wilson and Cole sets out for this segment. I will add the rest over the coming weeks.
This goes under the heading of "previously unknown concert tapes", as I don't believe any commercial (or otherwise) copy of this concert has been available before today.
You get to hear it first.
