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With regards to his singing: The legend goes that both Oscar Peterson and Nat King Cole started out as combined pianists/singers, and that the two of them were equally good at both. They supposedly reached a gentleman's agreement that Nat would concentrate mostly on singing and Oscar would focus on the piano, so as not to step on each other's toes.

Thank you very much!

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
this is masterful stuff
*quality *howto

>> ^dag:
Nice find.


Thank you. It was actually on one of my old piano teacher's Facebook page!

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danks for dat

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