BING CROSBY
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Releases
Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire
111 Happy Birthday Louis, Louis Armstrong
Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire
High Society (O.S.T - 1956)
Tea For Two, Connee Boswell, Bing Crosby
Christmas Greetings!, Bing Crosby
If I Had My Way (O.S.T - 1940)
Brother Bill, Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
Can Can, Bing Crosby
Double or Nothing (O.S.T - 1937), Bing Crosby
Mississippi (O.S.T - 1935), Bing Crosby
Paris Honeymoon (O.S.T - 1939), Bing Crosby
Sing You Sinners (O.S.T - 1938), Bing Crosby
Songs I Wish I Had Sung, Bing Crosby
The Star Maker (O.S.T - 1939)
Two for Tonight (O.S.T - 1935)
Original Soundtracks Hollywood 40's
Doctor Rhythm (O.S.T - 1938), Bing Crosby
Here Is My Heart (O.S.T - 1934), Bing Crosby
Christmas Time
The Road to Singapore (O.S.T - 1940), Bing Crosby
Waikiki Wedding (O.S.T - 1937), Bing Crosby
White Christmas (O.S.T - 1954)
Songs With Swing
Irving Berlin, Irving Berlin
Songs For Vintage Lovers
Art Decó Vocal Jazz of the 30
100 Original Soundtracks, Hollywood Vol. 1
100 Original Soundtracks, Hollywood Vol. 2
100 Songs for Vintage Ambient
Las Edades de la Navidad, The Christmas Ages
Star Spangled Rhythm (O.S.T. 1942)
50 Soundtracks Movies of 50'
Videos
Biography
Hobbies: Bing’s hobbies included golf, fishing, hunting, and horse racing.Marriages :
Dixie Lee, 1930 – 1952 (born 1911, died 1952);
Kathryn Grant, 1957 – 1977 (born 1933).
Died:
October 14, 1977, on La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Spain. He had just completed a successful round of golf when he collapsed as the result of a massive heart attack. He had been playing with Spanish golfers Manuel Pinero, Valentine Barrios, and club president Cesar de Zulueta. Bing’s last words were reportedly, That was a great game of golf fellas. Let’s go have a Coca-Cola.
Bing Crosby made recordings in every year of his career which spanned fifty-one years, and he recorded some 2000 titles. He was the most successful recording artist of the twentieth century, with well over 300 hits to his name and twenty-two official Gold Records. Bing recorded with many stars including the Andrews Sisters, Patti Andrews, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Connee Boswell, the Boswell Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Dixie Lee Crosby, Gary Crosby, Trudy Erwin, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Al Jolson, Danny Kaye, Grace Kelly, Frances Langford, Peggy Lee, Mary Martin, Johnny Mercer, the Mills Brothers, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Carol Richards, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, and Jane Wyman among others.
- First recording: “I’ve Got the Girl”, a duet with Al Rinker and Don Clark and his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra, recorded October 18, 1926.
- Last recording “Once in a While” with Gordon Rose and his Orchestra recorded for the BBC, October 11, 1977, in London.
Bing Crosby starred in concerts in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami Beach, New Orleans, Pasadena, San Jose, Preston (England), Dublin (Ireland), Edinburgh (Scotland), Manchester (England), and Oslo (Norway) as well as headlining two sell-out seasons at the London Palladium in 1976 and 1977. His marvelous performances endeared him to all that saw them. Bing’s last public engagement was at Brighton, England, on October 10, 1977.