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Who Was Flip Nuñez?

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Marc Myers
Aug 24, 2017
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about singer Bev Kelly and included a track of her singing Long Ago and Far Away live in San Francisco in 1960. After her first run through the song, Bev introduced her pianist prior to his solo: "Flip Nuñez." Most readers may be unfamiliar with the pianist-singer and composer (1931-1995), largely because he spent much of…

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