{"id":1607,"date":"2016-03-22T04:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T04:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2016-03-23T01:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:50:37","slug":"september-20-1946-nat-king-cole-takes-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"September 20, 1946 &#8211; Nat King Cole Takes Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/19460911_Nat_King_Cole.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/19460911_Nat_King_Cole.jpg\" alt=\"19460911_Nat_King_Cole\" width=\"908\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/19460911_Nat_King_Cole.jpg 908w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/19460911_Nat_King_Cole-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before he became the iconic musician known around the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nat_King_Cole\">Nat King Cole<\/a> and his trio toured in the mid 1940&#8217;s. The post-war era, in particular, was amazing in Milwaukee, which became a stop for many singers and musicians who would later become household names. The King Cole Trio already had a huge hit in 1945 with &#8220;For Sentimental Reasons&#8221; and was booked on September 20, 1946 in the Circle Room of the LaSalle Hotel on North 11th Street and Wells street. In a series of events which, at the time, probably seemed common, the show was broadcast live on WEMP at 10:30 that night. The show was also recorded and can be heard in its entirety on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8T0m4HIphMQ\">Youtube<\/a>. The sounds of clinking glasses and the chatter of some lucky Milwaukeeans&#8217; grandparents are too awesome.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel still stands as <a href=\"http:\/\/cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p128701coll6\/id\/942\/rec\/3\">Cobeen Hall at Marquette University<\/a> and why there isn&#8217;t a plaque for this show, only heaven knows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasalle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasalle.jpg\" alt=\"Lasalle\" width=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasalle.jpg 700w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasalle-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he became the iconic musician known around the world, Nat King Cole and his trio toured in the mid 1940&#8217;s. The post-war era, in particular, was amazing in Milwaukee, which became a stop for many singers and musicians who would later become household names. The King Cole Trio already had a huge hit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[229,230],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-old-days","tag-music","tag-nat-king-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}