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In the fall of 1964, legendary crooner and film star Bing Crosby made a failed attempt to be part of the television sitcom landscape. The series was titled, The Bing Crosby Show.
The man was listening to Bing Crosby sing, "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive". I stopped and smiled in grateful acknowledgment. The Hindu nodded and smiled back. The whole world knew and loved Bing Crosby." [77] His popularity in India led many Hindu singers to imitate and emulate him, notably Kishore Kumar, considered the "Bing Crosby of India". [78]
Bing Crosby once said the most difficult thing he ever did in his decades-long career was sing "White Christmas" to homesick troops in France in December 1944.
This article lists songs and whole discographies which have been banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over the years. During its history, the corporation has banned songs from a number of high-profile artists, including Cliff Richard, Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Beatles, Ken Dodd, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, the BBC Dance Orchestra, Tom Lehrer, Glenn Miller, and George Formby.
Bing Crosby began performing a version on his weekly radio show, The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric. It was first broadcast as a duet with Ella Fitzgerald at the end of 1953, and later with Connie Russell in early 1954. It featured John Scott Trotter's Orchestra and trumpet soloist Ziggy Elman. [7]
An earlier Irving Berlin gem doesn’t get enough attention, even with Fred Astaire as a dancing villain. | Opinion
Three weeks after Americana opened, the song was covered by crooner Bing Crosby for Brunswick Records; it was also covered by Rudy Vallee shortly thereafter for Columbia Records. Unusually, Vallee's version includes a spoken introduction, in which the narrator states that the song is "a bit out of character" for him.
After Bing's death in 1977, Crosby wrote another book, 1983's My Life With Bing, and made a handful of appearances on TV and stage, including in the 1996 Broadway revival of State Fair. She also ...