Broadcast: 2nd July 1950

Starring: Wezlyn Tilden, Oscar Brown Jr., Norma Ransom

Added: Jul 05 2005

In the past decade the soaring popularity of the swoon crooner has been one of the most spectacular phenomenon in popular music. Chicago’s contribution to the rise of these silken voice balladeers is the master pianist and arranger Nat King Cole who began as one of the nationally famous King Cole Trio. This chapter of Destination Freedom entitled Kansas City Phone Call is the Cole story.