Ozzie Nelson is of course best-known for his acting on the television series Ozzie and Harriet (which earlier had been featured on radio). Few remember that he led an excellent swing band in the '30s and early '40s. Nelson not only played tenor (mostly sticking to section work), but provided many of the swinging arrangements. Twenty-five of the better performances are on this CD, programmed in 8/

The title of this CD is "The Nelson Touch: 25 Big Band Hits " During the period from , Ozzie Nelson's band charted 25 "Billboard" hits. The first 19 were on Brunswick and the last 19 on Bluebird. The disk contains selections from both labels/5(4).

Dec 20,  · Ricky and David Nelson, the sons of ‘50s TV stars Harriet and Ozzy Nelson, were introduced in the entertainment industry at a very young age. They found success in their professional lives but faced several struggles in their personal lives that, eventually, ended in tragedy for one of them.

Harriet Nelson, whose transition from Ozzie Nelson's band singer to his wife and then mother of their two sons transformed her into the matriarch of one of television's most wholesome and beloved.

In many ways, Harriet Nelson was even more intriguing, and complicated, than the straitlaced Ozzie Nelson. Formerly Harriet Hilliard, a platinum blond nightclub and radio star and close friend of Ginger Rogers, Mrs. Nelson had appeared in vaudeville since she was 3 .

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Sep 12,  · Don Nelson, a screenwriter who wrote for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the long-running sitcom that revolved around his brother Ozzie's family, has died. He was He was

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Oct 08,  · The original Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuted 75 years ago this week, but the story behind the duo goes back further, and continues to this day. Ozzie Nelson might have seemed like an unlikely sitcom mastermind. Born in , Nelson became an Eagle Scout, a high school and college football player, and a law student at Rutgers.