Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
On 13 July 1963, Nat King Cole started his UK tour at The Finsbury Park Astoria
If you'd been lucky enough to get a ticket, below is a copy of the programme of what you'd have been treated to.
(Image from Bradford Timeline reproduced under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))
And lastly a TV programme, presumably the BBC one referred to the the above Melody Maker article.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Sleigh on
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For those of you who remember my mum Eva Sleigh this was when my dad Jack and her met Nat King Cole.
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh on -
That’s a dance to remember. Was this locally?
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I've no idea, I was only 9 at the time so I would have been with a babysitter somewhere. :-)
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh on -
Great one for the family album. Thanks for sharing.
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You're welcome.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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I do remember her well and kindly - and the chocolate and white Sunbeam Rapier that Jack bought for her! Like this one:
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I think that was her first ever car. Be worth a lot of money now.
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I just missed the review tickets for this at the Hornsey Journal - we often raffled them and I think Lesley Downes won this one. For me he was the king of the crooners - actually hitting the notes rather than sidling up on them like Frank!
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