{"id":5667,"date":"2018-02-13T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:44:48","slug":"george-russel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/george-russel\/","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE RUSSEL"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.101&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221;]\n<p>George Russell was Johnny\u2019s long time friend and promotions manager. \u201cChances Are\u201d if you\u2019re listening to Johnny on the radio, George had a hand in it.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1960, \u201cI was at Columbia for about a year when I decided I was too young to die. I then became an independent record promoter. About two months later, I got a call from Helen Noga and I\u2019ve been with Johnny ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George would tell you about having cocktails with Billie Holiday, or \u201cgoing up the fire escape and through the kitchen\u201d to get air play for a song, or composing \u201cBirthstone Suite\u201d which he recorded in 1988 with the Royal Philharmonic, and more. He\u2019 was with Johnny professionally longer than anyone, having joined him in 1961. George passed away in 2008 and will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_image _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.101&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russell.gif&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;on&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> George Russell was Johnny\u2019s long time friend and promotions manager. \u201cChances Are\u201d if you\u2019re listening to Johnny on the radio, George had a hand in it. Around 1960, \u201cI was at Columbia for about a year when I decided I was too young to die. I then became an independent record promoter. About two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnymathis.com\/wp2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}