In December 1957, Nat King Cole pulled the plug on his television show on NBC. It had struggled to get high audience ratings, and had failed to attract a National Sponsor. Nat famously quipped that "Madison Avenue was afraid of the dark".
If you watch his later rendition of the classic song "It's only a Paper Moon", you can sense that it still rankled, but that as an artist, he had gotten over it...
'...without your love, its a honky tonk parade... It's a Barnum & Bailey world, just as phoney as it can be, but it wouldn't be make believe, if you believed in me..."
There is just enough winks and extra beams to his smile to believe that he was conscious of the irony of these lines..
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