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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. was an American singer and actor. One of the first multimedia stars, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. Crosby was a leader in record sales, network radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global cultural icons. Crosby made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs.
business · American singer and actor (1903–1977) · also Bing Crosby, Harry Lillis Crosby, Harry Crosby, Harry Crosby Jr., Harry Lillis Crosby Jr., Crosby
Born 3 May 1903 · Died 14 October 1977 · Q72984
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Thoroughbred Daily News: Top-Level Turf Tests Highlight Bing Crosby Meet at Del Mar
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That Eric Alper: What Bing Crosby Can Teach You About Investing in the Technology Behind You
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Published video “A Heartwarming Family Performance 🌙 Moonlight Becomes You #bingcrosby #maryfranciscrosby #live”.
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Published video “Bing Crosby - Moonlight Becomes You (Bing Crosby: 50 Years in Show Business, 1977)”.
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Forbes: Bing Crosby Stakes At Del Mar Offers Spot In Breeders’ Cup
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Published video “A Rare TV Moment with Bing Crosby & Kathryn Crosby 💖 Medley LIVE #bingcrosby #duet”.
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Published video “Bing Crosby & Kathryn Crosby – Medley (Live 1977) | 50 Years in Show Business”.
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Published video “Mele Kalikimaka! Do you know these facts behind this holiday classic?”.
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Published video “Kick off another Christmas in July with Bing! Get 15% merchandise now through July 6th 🌴 #bingcrosby”.
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Published video “"Sing, Sing, Sing!" - musical advice from the great Bing Crosby #bingcrosby”.
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Published video “When Bing Crosby and Pearl Bailey Team Up, It’s Pure Gold 🔥 Gone Fishin’ (1977) #bingcrosby #1977”.
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Published video “Bing Crosby & Pearl Bailey - Gone Fishin (Bing Crosby: 50 Years in Show Business, 1977)”.
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Published video “Old-school vocal magic from Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers ✨ #BingCrosby #MillsBrothers #Dinah”.
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Yahoo: Bing Crosby's opulent Bay Area estate is back on the market after 1 year
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Yahoo: Bing Crosby's Northern California estate is back on the market, asking millions more
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Artnet: Bing Crosby’s Personal Treasures—From Fine Art to Fabergé—Rake in $6.7 Million at Auction
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The Real Deal: Bing Crosby’s Bay Area chateau sells for $25M
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East Bay Times: Photos: Bing Crosby’s Hillsborough mansion sells for $25 million
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New York Post: Bing Crosby struggled to sing ‘White Christmas’ to troops, ‘most difficult thing’ in his career
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Forbes: Bing Crosby Scores Two New Hit Albums, Nearly 50 Years After His Death
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Released album “Bing & Ella”.
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Released album “Christmas for Kids”.
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NBC DFW: Bing Crosby's Former Estate With ‘Secret Room' Hits the Market for $13.75 Million — Take a Look Inside
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20191 item
Released album “Bing at Christmas”.
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Released album “A Christmas Story”.
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Released album “Christmas Classics with Bing Crosby”.
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Released album “Some Fine Old Chestnuts”.
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Released album “Christmas”.
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Released album “Joyful Christmas with Bing Crosby”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby Christmas”.
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Released album “On the Sentimental Side”.
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Crosby was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame and in 2008 the Western Music Hall of Fame
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Released album “14 Holiday Favorites for a White Christmas”.
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Released album “Good & Rare”.
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Released album “Together”.
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Released album “The Christmas Album”.
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Released album “Christmas Songs”.
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Released album “The Golden Age of Comedy”.
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Released album “It’s Easy to Remember”.
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20003 items
Released album “The Essential Collection”.
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Found that with 1,077,900,000 movie tickets sold, Crosby was the third-most-popular actor of all time, behind Clark Gable (1,168,300,000) and John Wayne (1,114,000,000)
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Released album “Don't Fence Me In”.
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Released album “Christmas Treasury”.
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In December 1999, the New York Post published an article by Bill Hoffmann and Murray Weiss called Bing Crosby's Single Life which claimed that "recently published" FBI files revealed connections with figures in the Mafia "since his youth".
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Released album “The Legendary Bing Crosby”.
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Released album “Forever Gold”.
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Released album “My Favorite Hymns”.
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Released album “Something to Remember Me By”.
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Released album “Holiday Inn”.
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Released album “My Favorite Country Songs”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and Friends”.
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Released album “White Christmas, Bing Crosby Sings Yuletide Favorites; White Christmas; Bing Crosby Sings Yuletide Favorites”.
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Released album “Christmas Through the Years”.
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Released album “White Christmas”.
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Released album “WWII Radio Broadcast: October 7, 1945 and December 16, 1943”.
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Released album “WWII Radio Broadcast: July 6, 1944 and November 30, 1944”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby Christmas Album”.
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Released album “WWII Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1944 and June 29, 1944”.
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Released album “Christmas With Bing Crosby”.
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Released album “Christmas With Bing”.
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And provide no indication that Crosby had ties to the Mafia except for one major, but accidental, encounter in Chicago in 1929 which is not mentioned in the files, but is told by Crosby himself in his as-told-to autobiog
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However, Crosby's FBI files had already been published in 1992 and provide no indication that Crosby had ties to the Mafia except for one major, but accidental, encounter in Chicago in 1929 which is not mentioned in the files, but is told by Crosby himself in his as-told-to autobiography Call Me Lucky.
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At age 51, and Dennis Crosby died in 1991 at age 56, both by suicide from self-inflicted gunshot wounds
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19862 items
Released album “Bing Crosby Sings Again”.
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Released album “Bing ’n Basie”.
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As a single 45 rpm record and reached No
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19781 item
And Bob Hope were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship
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Died 1977-10-14.
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Released album “Beautiful Memories”.
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Crosby had planned another Road film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth
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In 1977, Crosby told Barbara Walters in a televised interview that he thought marijuana should be legalized, because he believed it would make it much easier for the authorities to exert proper legal control over the market.
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After Crosby died, the song was re-released and reached No
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“My two sons, Harry and Nathaniel, my father and my father-in-law and many of my friends idolized Roberto Clemente and so did I. I called him a double superstar.”
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“He was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.”
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Crosby told Barbara Walters in a televised interview that he thought marijuana should be legalized, because he believed it would make it much easier for the authorities to exert proper legal control over the market
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Released album “Seasons (The Closing Chapter)”.
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19762 items
Released album “Feels Good, Feels Right”.
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Released album “That's What Life Is All About”.
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Released album “A Southern Memoir”.
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“That's What Life is All About”
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Crosby had sold more than 400 million records worldwide, and by 1977 he had sold 500 million discs worldwide, being ranked as the most successful and best-selling musical artist in 1978 by Guinness World Records
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Released album “A Time to Be Jolly”.
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19681 item
Released album “Thoroughly Modern Bing”.
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19661 item
Released album “Bing Crosby's Treasury_The Songs I Love”.
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19654 items
The Crosbys moved to a larger, 40-room French chateau-style house on nearby Jackling Drive, where Kathryn Crosby continued to reside after Bing's death
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Released album “Bing Crosby”.
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Released album “Sings The Great Country Hits”.
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Released album “That Travelin' Two-Beat”.
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Released album “America I Hear You Singing”.
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Released album “Return to Paradise Islands”.
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Released album “12 Songs of Christmas”.
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And his wife Kathryn moved with their three young children from Los Angeles to a $175,000 ten-bedroom Tudor estate in Hillsborough, formerly owned by fellow horseman Lindsay C
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Received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award
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Released album “I Wish You a Merry Christmas”.
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Released album “Swinging on a Star”.
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Released album “Holiday in Europe”.
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Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “101 Gang Songs”.
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Released album “El Señor Bing”.
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Starred in High Time, a collegiate comedy with Fabian Forte and Tuesday Weld that predicted the emerging gap between Crosby and the new younger generation of musicians and actors who had begun their careers after Worl
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NAFI purchased KCOP from Crosby's group
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Attacks lightly and easily on a low E flat
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Released album “Bing & Satchmo”.
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Crosby was honored as "First Citizen of Record Industry" based on having sold 200 million discs
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Released album “Fancy Meeting You Here”.
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Released album “Crosby Classics”.
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And actresses Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly
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Released album “Around The World With Bing!”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby Sings”.
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And it is doubtful how much he was really involved in that meeting
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Released album “Rendezvous”.
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19572 items
Released album “New Tricks...”.
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Released album “Bing With a Beat”.
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Released album “Blue Hawaii”.
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Released album “A Christmas Sing With Bing - Around The World”.
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Released album “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings”.
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Released album “Home On The Range”.
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Crosby sold his tape recorder operation to 3M, which launched the Mincom recorder division in Camarillo with Jack Mullin as chief engineer
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Released album “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”.
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19551 item
Released album “Young Bing Crosby”.
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19543 items
Released album “Bing: A Musical Autobiography”.
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Released album “Selections from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”.
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Caulfield admitted to a relationship with a "top film star" who was a married man with children, who, in the end, chose his wife and children over her
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As a result of a liquidation of assets by Crosby, who needed to raise enough funds to pay the hefty federal and state inheritance taxes on his deceased wife's estate
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Released album “Le Bing - Song Hits of Paris”.
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Released album “Bing and Connee”.
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Released album “Road To Bali (Selections From The Paramount Picture)”.
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“In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening”
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Crosby became the third person to win the William D
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Released album “Down Memory Lane, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs”.
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Released album “Sings Songs by George Gershwin”.
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Released album “St. Valentine's Day”.
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Released album “Sings Songs by Jerome Kern”.
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Released album “Christmas Greetings”.
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American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII
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Music Digest estimated that Crosby's recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in North America
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Using the same musicians and backup singers; the original 1942 master had become damaged due to its frequent use in pressing additional singles
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On golf courses in Pebble Beach, where it has been played ever since
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Released album “Blue Skies”.
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Released album “St. Patrick’s Day”.
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Crosby starred in three of the year's five highest-grossing films: The Bells of St
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19452 items
Released album “Merry Christmas”.
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When he clashed with NBC over his insistence that he be allowed to pre-record his radio shows
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19442 items
By Bob Musel, an American journalist based in London, after Crosby had recorded three 15-minute programs with Jack Russin for broadcast to Germany from ABSIE
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And was nominated for the 1945 sequel, The Bells of St
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Binglin's horse Don Bingo won the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
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After a federal antitrust suit and was willing to join Mutual in breaking the tradition
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And rose to number 1 on October 31, where it stayed for 11 weeks
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Released album “Original Soundtrack Recording Of The Classic 1942 Film "Holiday Inn"”.
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Released album “A Souvenir Program”.
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“Where the Turf Meets the Surf”
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Released album “Crosbyana (12 Favorite Songs From Bing Crosby’s Paramount Picture)”.
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Released album “Star Dust”.
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Released album “Ballad for Americans”.
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The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race won by Charles S
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After Lux Radio Theatre's adaptation of She Loves Me Not, Joan Blondell asked Crosby how he got his nickname
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Crosby hosted the first 'Crosby Clambake', a pro-am tournament at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, the event's location prior to World War II
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19361 item
Crosby exercised an option in his Paramount contract to regularly star in an out-of-house film
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“I Would If I Could But I Can't”
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“You're Just a Beautiful Melody of Love”
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“I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You”
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“Where Are You, Girl of My Dreams?”
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15 Minutes with Bing Crosby, his nationwide solo radio debut, began broadcasting
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He got his drinking under control in 1931.
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“Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)”
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Roughly 60 million of his records had been sold, with "White Christmas" alone selling two million copies in the United States and 250,000 in Great Britain
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A break with the Rhythm Boys became almost inevitable
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19301 item
The Rhythm Boys appeared in the film King of Jazz with Whiteman, but Crosby's growing dissatisfaction with Whiteman led to the Rhythm Boys leaving his organization
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19281 item
Had his first number one hit, a jazz-influenced rendition of "Ol' Man River"
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19261 item
Debuted with Whiteman on December 6 at the Tivoli Theatre in Chicago
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19251 item
Bing appeared at the Clemmer Theater as part of The Clemmer Trio (Frank McBride, Lloyd Grinnell and Harry Crosby) and they were shown as being presented with special stage effects
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19231 item
Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of high-school students a few years younger than himself
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19171 item
Crosby took a summer job as property boy at Spokane's Auditorium, where he witnessed some of the acts of the day, including Al Jolson, who held Crosby spellbound with ad-libbing and parodies of Hawaiian songs
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His father (Harry Lillis Crosby Sr
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Born 1903-05-03.
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In Tacoma, Washington, in a house his father built at 1112 North J Street
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