VOLUME 8: (Issues 30-33) The aftermath of the break-up and starting new careers in 1950. Also, I MARRIED AN ANGEL revisited; Nelson’s pre-film operatic career including reviews and interviews; SAN FRANCISCO and complete newspaper coverage of the 1984 battle to change that city’s official song; interviews with Betty Jaynes (SWEETHEARTS co-star) and Lawrence Tibbett, Jr., in which he confirms the Gene Raymond research findings, and discusses his dad’s and Nelson’s WWII spy work. New introduction by Sharon Rich. 200 pages, color covers are reproduced full-sized inside the book.
1944Next day after Jeanette is hospitalized in El Paso, Nelson nearly cancels his Carnegie Hall concert and has vocal challenges but sings well after intermission at learning Jeanette is okay. In fact he speaks to the audience in the second half telling them he will do a song that is "very dear to me" and he sings "Indian Love Call." His final encore was "Rose Marie."
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