Nat King Cole

by Epstein, Daniel Mark

• ISBN13: 9780374219123
• ISBN10: 0374219125
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-11-12
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Daniel Mark Epstein is a poet, a dramatist, and the author of numerous books, including the biography Sister Aimee, which was widely praised as "a remarkable book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Table of Contents

PART ONE Chicago
The Kid---Chicago, 1935	3	(3)
Gatemouth	6	(8)
Flight Out of Egypt	14	(4)
Schoolboys	18	(10)
Bud Billiken Days	28	(8)
On the Town	36	(11)
The Savoy Ballroom---September 8, 1935	47	(5)
Brothers	52	(4)
Nadine	56	(9)
PART TWO Los Angeles
Sunshine and Shadow	65	(8)
The Trio	73	(16)
A Year on the Road	89	(7)
Fly Right	96	(8)
Carlos, and Capitol Records	104	(11)
The Big Money	115	(13)
Changes	128	(8)
Maria	136	(11)
Engaged	147	(16)
PART THREE America
Wedding Bells	163	(5)
Nature Boy	168	(9)
A Home of Their Own	177	(6)
The Price of Fame	183	(9)
Bop City to Dixie	192	(9)
Family	201	(13)
The Tax Man	214	(9)
The Big Show	223	(19)
Together and Apart	242	(7)
Mobbed	249	(12)
Home Again	261	(8)
PART FOUR This World and the Next
Television	269	(7)
Sammy and Harry and the General	276	(15)
Games and Children	291	(11)
The Dawn of a New Decade	302	(18)
Jackpot Attraction	320	(13)
Love and Death	333	(28)
Epilogue	361	(4)
Acknowledgments	365	(2)
Notes	367	(34)
Bibliography	401	(20)
Index	421