His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby (1870–1950), a bookkeeper, and Catherine Helen "Kate" (née Harrigan; 1873–1964).
(May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor.
In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. ==Early life== Crosby was born on May 3, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in a house his father built at 1112 North J Street.
Paul's Catholic Church in Westwood, Crosby was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California; his tombstone incorrectly identified his year of birth as 1904 instead of 1903.
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years 1903-1940 (Back Bay Books, 2009) excerpt. * Giddins, Gary.
Paul's Catholic Church in Westwood, Crosby was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California; his tombstone incorrectly identified his year of birth as 1904 instead of 1903.
In 1906, his family moved to Spokane in Eastern Washington state, where he was raised.
In 1913, his father built a house at 508 E.
In time, Bingo got shortened to Bing. In 1917, 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 him spellbound with ad libbing and parodies of Hawaiian songs.
He later described Jolson's delivery as "electric". Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School (today's Gonzaga Preparatory School) in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University.
Today, Gonzaga University houses a large collection of photographs, correspondence, and other material related to Crosby. ==Performance career== ===Early years=== In 1923 Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of high school students a few years younger than himself.
Bing and Al continued at the Clemmer Theatre for several months often with three other men – Wee Georgie Crittenden, Frank McBride and Lloyd Grinnell – and they were billed The Clemmer Trio or The Clemmer Entertainers depending who performed. In October 1925, Crosby and Rinker decided to seek fame in California.
Hired for $150 a week in 1926, they debuted with Whiteman on December 6 at the Tivoli Theatre in Chicago.
Their first recording, in October 1926, was "I've Got the Girl" with Don Clark's Orchestra, but the Columbia-issued record was inadvertently recorded at a slow speed, which increased the singers' pitch when played at 78 rpm.
In 1928 he had his first number one hit, a jazz-influenced rendition of "Ol' Man River".
In 1929, 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.
He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1930 to 1954.
Crosby married Dixie Lee in September 1930.
Statistician Joel Whitburn at Billboard determined that Crosby was America's most successful recording act of the 1930s and again in the 1940s.
In the 1930s, his friend and former college classmate, Gonzaga head coach Mike Pecarovich appointed Crosby as an assistant football coach.
Richardson award, which is given to a non-professional golfer "who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to golf". Crosby first took up golf at 12 as a caddy, dropped it, and started again in 1930 with some fellow cast members in Hollywood during the filming of The King of Jazz.
His first wife was actress and nightclub singer Dixie Lee to whom he was married from 1930 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1952.
As early as 1930, Crosby had a gambling addiction which resulted in him at times owing mobsters thousands in gambling debts.
When Mack Sennett signed Crosby to a solo recording contract in 1931, a break with the Rhythm Boys became almost inevitable.
After a threat of divorce in March 1931, he applied himself to his career. ===Success as a solo singer=== On September 2, 1931, Crosby made his nationwide solo radio debut.
"Out of Nowhere", "Just One More Chance", "At Your Command" and "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" were among the best selling songs of 1931. Ten of the top 50 songs of 1931 included Crosby with others or as a solo act.
Today he is a kind of national institution." "In all, 60,000,000 Crosby discs have been marketed since he made his first record in 1931.
"Now You Has Jazz" in the film High Society (1956). During the early portion of his solo career (about 1931–1934), Crosby's emotional, often pleading style of crooning was popular.
Crosby had separate charting singles every year between 1931 and 1954; the annual re-release of "White Christmas" extended that streak to 1957.
pop singles chart beginning on August 8, 1931.
Crosby played the lead in a series of musical comedy short films for Mack Sennett, signed with Paramount, and starred in his first full-length film 1932's The Big Broadcast (1932), the first of 55 films in which he received top billing.
4 "Waltzing in a Dream" (1932), with Victor Young and Ned Washington, US, no.6 "You're Just a Beautiful Melody of Love" (1932), lyrics by Bing Crosby, music by Babe Goldberg "Where Are You, Girl of My Dreams?" (1932), written by Bing Crosby, Irving Bibo, and Paul McVey, featured in the 1932 Universal film The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood "I Would If I Could But I Can't" (1933), with Mitchell Parish and Alan Grey "Where the Turf Meets the Surf" (1941) with Johnny Burke and James V.
His first son Gary was born in 1933 with twin boys following in 1934.
He signed a contract with Jack Kapp's new record company, Decca, in late 1934. His first commercial sponsor on radio was Cremo Cigars and his fame spread nationwide.
Audio engineer Steve Hoffman stated, "By the way, Bing actually saved the record business in 1934 when he agreed to support Decca founder Jack Kapp's crazy idea of lowering the price of singles from a dollar to 35 cents and getting a royalty for records sold instead of a flat fee.
His first son Gary was born in 1933 with twin boys following in 1934.
It was one of the magnetic tape recorders that BASF and AEG had built in Germany starting in 1935.
After it began broadcasting, the station was sold within a year to Northern Pacific Radio and Television Corporation. ===Thoroughbred horse racing=== Crosby was a fan of thoroughbred horse racing and bought his first racehorse in 1935.
By 1936, he replaced his former boss, Paul Whiteman, as host of the weekly NBC radio program Kraft Music Hall, where he remained for the next ten years.
In 1936, Crosby exercised an option in his Paramount contract to regularly star in an out-of-house film.
The university granted him an honorary doctorate in 1937.
The single "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies according to Guinness World Records. For fifteen years (1934, 1937, 1940, 1943–1954), Crosby was among the top ten acts in box-office sales, and for five of those years (1944–1948) he topped the world.
In 1937, he became a founding partner of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and a member of its board of directors.
In 1937, Crosby hosted the first 'Crosby Clambake' as it was popularly known, at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, the event's location prior to World War II.
He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 1945–1946 season. The Mutual network, on the other hand, pre-recorded some of its programs as early as 1938 for The Shadow with Orson Welles.
On August 12, 1938, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race won by Charles S.
He had 24 separate popular singles in 1939 alone.
They were his most frequent collaborators on disc from 1939 to 1952, a partnership that produced four million-selling singles: "Pistol Packin' Mama", "Jingle Bells", "Don't Fence Me In", and "South America, Take it Away".
films from 1940 to 1962. Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry.
Statistician Joel Whitburn at Billboard determined that Crosby was America's most successful recording act of the 1930s and again in the 1940s.
The single "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies according to Guinness World Records. For fifteen years (1934, 1937, 1940, 1943–1954), Crosby was among the top ten acts in box-office sales, and for five of those years (1944–1948) he topped the world.
Crosby charted 23 Billboard hits from 47 recorded songs with the Andrews Sisters, whose Decca record sales were second only to Crosby's throughout the 1940s.
They made one film appearance together in Road to Rio singing "You Don't Have to Know the Language", and sang together on radio throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
4; US, 1940 re-recording, no.
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 (Little, Brown, 2018) excerpt. Gilbert, Roger.
"Entertaining Catholics: Bing Crosby, Religion and Cultural Pluralism in 1940s America." American Catholic Studies (2003) 11#4: 1-19 online. Teachout, Terry.
For one thing, he enjoys hearing himself sing, and if ever a day should dawn when the public wearies of him, he will complacently go right on singing—to himself." ==="White Christmas"=== The biggest hit song of Crosby's career was his recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", which he introduced on a Christmas Day radio broadcast in 1941.
His record hit the charts on October 3, 1942, and rose to No. 1 on October 31, where it stayed for 11 weeks.
His recording was so popular that he was obliged to re-record it in 1947 using the same musicians and backup singers; the original 1942 master had become damaged due to its frequent use in pressing additional singles.
The single "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies according to Guinness World Records. For fifteen years (1934, 1937, 1940, 1943–1954), Crosby was among the top ten acts in box-office sales, and for five of those years (1944–1948) he topped the world.
The quartet's Top-10 Billboard hits from 1943 to 1945 include "The Vict'ry Polka", "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)", and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby?)" and helped morale of the American public. In 1962, Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
ABC was formed from the sale of the NBC Blue Network in 1943 after a federal antitrust suit and was willing to join Mutual in breaking the tradition.
In 1943, Binglin's horse Don Bingo won the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The Binglin Stable partnership came to an end in 1953 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.
Shortly before his death in 1977, he had planned another Road film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Going My Way in 1944 and was nominated for the 1945 sequel, The Bells of St.
Poniatoff ordered Ampex, which he founded in 1944, to manufacture an improved version of the Magnetophone. Crosby hired Mullin to start recording his Philco Radio Time show on his German-made machine in August 1947 using the same 50 reels of I.G.
Roosevelt, General Dwight Eisenhower, and Bob Hope. The June 18, 1945 issue of Life magazine stated, "America's number one star, Bing Crosby, has won more fans, made more money than any entertainer in history.
It topped the charts again in 1945 and a third time in January 1947.
Shortly before his death in 1977, he had planned another Road film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Going My Way in 1944 and was nominated for the 1945 sequel, The Bells of St.
The quartet's Top-10 Billboard hits from 1943 to 1945 include "The Vict'ry Polka", "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)", and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby?)" and helped morale of the American public. In 1962, Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Crosby's radio career took a significant turn in 1945, when he clashed with NBC over his insistence that he be allowed to pre-record his radio shows.
He returned to broadcasting for the last 13 weeks of the 1945–1946 season. The Mutual network, on the other hand, pre-recorded some of its programs as early as 1938 for The Shadow with Orson Welles.
From 1946 until his death, he owned a 25% share of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It topped the charts again in 1945 and a third time in January 1947.
His recording was so popular that he was obliged to re-record it in 1947 using the same musicians and backup singers; the original 1942 master had become damaged due to its frequent use in pressing additional singles.
He would get an additional $40,000 from 400 independent stations for the rights to broadcast the 30-minute show, which was sent to them every Monday on three 16-inch (40-cm) lacquer discs that played ten minutes per side at 33 rpm. Murdo MacKenzie of Bing Crosby Enterprises had seen a demonstration of the German Magnetophon in June 1947—the same device that Jack Mullin had brought back from Radio Frankfurt with 50 reels of tape, at the end of the war.
Poniatoff ordered Ampex, which he founded in 1944, to manufacture an improved version of the Magnetophone. Crosby hired Mullin to start recording his Philco Radio Time show on his German-made machine in August 1947 using the same 50 reels of I.G.
After the war, the event resumed play in 1947 on golf courses in Pebble Beach, where it has been played ever since.
In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.
Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music. Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way (1944), and was nominated for its sequel The Bells of St.
In 1948, the second season of Philco shows was recorded with the Ampex Model 200A and Scotch 111 tape from 3M.
Actress Patricia Neal stated in her 1988 autobiography As I Am that Crosby's Blue Skies co-star Joan Caulfield was in fact one of his mistresses and that she and her then-lover Gary Cooper shared a ship with Crosby and Caulfield in 1948.
They performed together countless times on stage, radio, film, and television, and made numerous brief and not so brief appearances together in movies aside from the "Road" pictures, Variety Girl (1947) being an example of lengthy scenes and songs together along with billing. In the 1949 Disney animated film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.
He was a frequent guest on the musical variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on various variety shows as well as numerous late-night talk shows and his own highly rated specials.
They made one film appearance together in Road to Rio singing "You Don't Have to Know the Language", and sang together on radio throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
In his 1950 film Mr.
Johnson since 1950, the device aired what were described as "blurred and indistinct" images, using a modified Ampex 200 tape recorder and standard quarter-inch (6.3 mm) audio tape moving at 360 inches (9.1 m) per second. ===Television station ownership=== A Crosby-led group purchased station KCOP-TV, in Los Angeles, California, in 1954.
In the early 1950s, Crosby helped establish the CBS television affiliate in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.
In 1950, he became the third person to win the William D.
Bing Crosby Enterprises gave the world's first demonstration of videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951.
They were his most frequent collaborators on disc from 1939 to 1952, a partnership that produced four million-selling singles: "Pistol Packin' Mama", "Jingle Bells", "Don't Fence Me In", and "South America, Take it Away".
His first wife was actress and nightclub singer Dixie Lee to whom he was married from 1930 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1952.
When Dixie died in 1952, her will provided that her share of the community property be distributed in trust to her sons.
In 1943, Binglin's horse Don Bingo won the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The Binglin Stable partnership came to an end in 1953 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.
He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1930 to 1954.
His contract with Paramount runs until 1954.
Crosby had separate charting singles every year between 1931 and 1954; the annual re-release of "White Christmas" extended that streak to 1957.
His most popular film, White Christmas, grossed $30 million in 1954 ($ million in current value). He received 23 gold and platinum records, according to the book Million Selling Records.
Johnson since 1950, the device aired what were described as "blurred and indistinct" images, using a modified Ampex 200 tape recorder and standard quarter-inch (6.3 mm) audio tape moving at 360 inches (9.1 m) per second. ===Television station ownership=== A Crosby-led group purchased station KCOP-TV, in Los Angeles, California, in 1954.
His contract with Decca runs until 1955.
Crosby had separate charting singles every year between 1931 and 1954; the annual re-release of "White Christmas" extended that streak to 1957.
After his wife died, Crosby had relationships with model Pat Sheehan (who married his son Dennis in 1958) and actresses Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly before marrying actress Kathryn Grant, who converted to Catholicism, in 1957.
The Recording Industry Association of America did not institute its gold record certification program until 1958 when Crosby's record sales were low.
Before 1958, gold records were awarded by record companies.
After his wife died, Crosby had relationships with model Pat Sheehan (who married his son Dennis in 1958) and actresses Inger Stevens and Grace Kelly before marrying actress Kathryn Grant, who converted to Catholicism, in 1957.
NAFI Corporation and Crosby purchased television station KPTV in Portland, Oregon, for $4 million on September 1, 1959.
In 1960, he starred in High Time, a collegiate comedy with Fabian Forte and Tuesday Weld that predicted the emerging gap between him and the new young generation of musicians and actors who had begun their careers after World War II.
He was a frequent guest on the musical variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on various variety shows as well as numerous late-night talk shows and his own highly rated specials.
In 1960 Crosby was honored as "First Citzen of Record Industry" based on having sold 200 million discs.
In 1960, NAFI purchased KCOP from Crosby's group.
Although he was passionate about the team, he was too nervous to watch the deciding Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, choosing to go to Paris with Kathryn and listen to its radio broadcast.
films from 1940 to 1962. Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry.
The quartet's Top-10 Billboard hits from 1943 to 1945 include "The Vict'ry Polka", "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marching In)", and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby?)" and helped morale of the American public. In 1962, Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award.
At the end of the 20th century, TV Guide listed the Crosby-Bowie duet one of the 25 most memorable musical moments of 20th-century television. Bing Crosby Productions, affiliated with Desilu Studios and later CBS Television Studios, produced a number of television series, including Crosby's own unsuccessful ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show in the 1964–1965 season (with co-stars Beverly Garland and Frank McHugh).
Howard, became one of Crosby's closest friends; Crosby named his son Lindsay after him, and would purchase his 40-room Hillsborough, California estate from Lindsay in 1965. Crosby and Lindsay Howard formed Binglin Stable to race and breed thoroughbred horses at a ranch in Moorpark in Ventura County, California.
In the summer of 1966 he spent a week as the guest of Lord Egremont, staying in Cockermouth and fishing on the River Derwent.
In the early 1970s, he made two late appearances on the Flip Wilson Show, singing duets with the comedian.
"Bing Crosby: Through the years, volumes one-nine (1954–56)." ARSC Journal, 43(1), 127–130. Crosby interviewed 1971 July 8. Klebanoff, Shoshana.
41 "Sail Away from Norway" (1977) – Crosby wrote lyrics to go with a traditional song. ==Grammy Hall of Fame== Four performances by Bing Crosby have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance". ==Filmography== ==Discography== ==Television appearances== ==Radio== 15 Minutes with Bing Crosby (1931, CBS), Unsponsored.
In light of the court's ruling, it was unnecessary for the court to decide whether a right of publicity can be characterized as community property under California law. ==Illness and death== Following his recovery from a life-threatening fungal infection of his right lung in January 1974, Crosby emerged from semi-retirement to start a new spate of albums and concerts.
As Crosby wrote in his autobiography: Mullin's 1976 memoir of these early days of experimental recording agrees with Crosby's account: Crosby invested US$50,000 in Ampex with the intent to produce more machines.
(May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor.
In 1977, after Crosby died, the song was re-released and reached No.
Shortly before his death in 1977, he had planned another Road film in which he, Hope, and Lamour search for the Fountain of Youth. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Going My Way in 1944 and was nominated for the 1945 sequel, The Bells of St.
His last TV appearance was a Christmas special, Merrie Olde Christmas, taped in London in September 1977 and aired weeks after his death.
Crosby told Barbara Walters in a 1977 televised interview that he thought marijuana should be legalized. In later years, it was revealed that Crosby had ties with figures in the Mafia since his youth.
After Crosby's death in 1977, he left the residue of his estate to a marital trust for the benefit of his widow, Kathryn, and HLC Properties, Ltd., was formed for the purpose of managing his interests, including his right of publicity.
In March 1977, after videotaping a concert at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena for CBS to commemorate his 50th anniversary in show business, and with Bob Hope looking on, Crosby fell off the stage into an orchestra pit, rupturing a disc in his back requiring a month in the hospital.
His first performance after the accident was his last American concert, on August 16, 1977 at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California.
Later that afternoon, he met with Chris Harding to take photographs for the Seasons album jacket. On October 13, 1977, Crosby flew alone to Spain to play golf and hunt partridge.
The Films of Bing Crosby (Lyle Stuart, 1977) Giddins, Gary.
The restored broadcast was shown on MLB Network in December 2010. Crosby was also an avid golfer, and in 1978, he and Bob Hope were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship.
He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1978.
They had three children: Harry Lillis III (who played Bill in Friday the 13th), Mary (best known for portraying Kristin Shepard on TV's Dallas), and Nathaniel (the 1981 U.S.
Amateur in 1981 at age 19, becoming the youngest winner in the history of that event at the time.
Their duet was released in 1982 as a single 45-rpm record and reached No.
Bing Crosby: a discography, radio program list, and filmography (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 1987). Pitts, Michael, et al.
Actress Patricia Neal stated in her 1988 autobiography As I Am that Crosby's Blue Skies co-star Joan Caulfield was in fact one of his mistresses and that she and her then-lover Gary Cooper shared a ship with Crosby and Caulfield in 1948.
He was not out to be vicious, to beat children for his kicks." Crosby's will established a blind trust in which none of the sons received an inheritance until they reached the age of 65. Lindsay Crosby died in 1989 at age 51, and Dennis Crosby died in 1991 at age 56, both by suicide from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
She also appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary. In 2006, Crosby's niece through his sister Mary Rose, Carolyn Schneider, published the laudatory book Me and Uncle Bing. There have been disputes between Crosby's two families beginning in the late 1990s.
He was not out to be vicious, to beat children for his kicks." Crosby's will established a blind trust in which none of the sons received an inheritance until they reached the age of 65. Lindsay Crosby died in 1989 at age 51, and Dennis Crosby died in 1991 at age 56, both by suicide from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
In his 1993 book The Secret Life of Bob Hope, Groucho Marx's son Arthur stated that Crosby and Hope would trade girlfriends. Crosby reportedly had an alcohol problem in his youth, and may have been dismissed from Paul Whiteman's orchestra because of it, but he later got a handle on his drinking.
Greenwood Press, 1994. Prigozy, R.
Gary Crosby died of lung cancer in 1995 at age 62, and Phillip Crosby died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 69. Widow Kathryn Crosby dabbled in local theater productions intermittently and appeared in television tributes to her late husband. Nathaniel Crosby, Crosby's younger son from his second marriage, is a former high-level golfer who won the U.S.
In 1996, Dixie's trust sued HLC and Kathryn for declaratory relief as to the trust's entitlement to interest, dividends, royalties, and other income derived from the community property of Crosby and Dixie.
FBI documents which were made public in December 1999 revealed that FBI deputy director Clyde Tolson discovered that Crosby liked to gamble at gambling dens which were operating illegally.
During an interview in 1999 by the Globe, Phillip said: However, Dennis and Lindsay Crosby confirmed that Bing sometimes subjected his sons to harsh physical discipline and verbal put-downs.
In 1999, the parties settled for approximately $1.5 million.
The California Court of Appeal reversed, however, holding that the 1999 settlement barred the claim.
He sang four Academy Award-winning songs – "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951) – and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Going My Way (1944). A survey in 2000 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).
The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee (Scarecrow Press, 2001). Prigozy, Ruth, and Walter Raubicheck, eds.
Gary Crosby died of lung cancer in 1995 at age 62, and Phillip Crosby died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 69. Widow Kathryn Crosby dabbled in local theater productions intermittently and appeared in television tributes to her late husband. Nathaniel Crosby, Crosby's younger son from his second marriage, is a former high-level golfer who won the U.S.
She also appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary. In 2006, Crosby's niece through his sister Mary Rose, Carolyn Schneider, published the laudatory book Me and Uncle Bing. There have been disputes between Crosby's two families beginning in the late 1990s.
A plaque was placed at the golf course in his memory. ==Legacy== He is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division. The family created an official website on October 14, 2007, the 30th anniversary of Crosby's death. In his autobiography Don't Shoot, It's Only Me! (1990), Bob Hope wrote, "Dear old Bing.
The Boydell Press, 2007. ===Primary sources=== Crosby, Bing.
Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture (University of Rochester Press, 2007), essays by scholars. Includes a chapter on Crosby's involvement in the making of "White Christmas," and an interview with record producer Ken Barnes. Schofield, Mary Anne.
He apparently viewed the complete film just once, and then stored it in his wine cellar, where it remained undisturbed until it was discovered in December 2009.
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years 1903-1940 (Back Bay Books, 2009) excerpt. * Giddins, Gary.
The restored broadcast was shown on MLB Network in December 2010. Crosby was also an avid golfer, and in 1978, he and Bob Hope were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship.
Relying on a retroactive amendment to the California Civil Code, Dixie's trust brought suit again, in 2010, alleging that Crosby's right of publicity was community property, and that Dixie's trust was entitled to a share of the revenue it produced.
A copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by the estate of Bing Crosby and was loaned to CBS Sunday Morning for their December 25, 2011, program.
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 (Little, Brown, 2018) excerpt. Gilbert, Roger.
"The Swinging Star: Why is Bing Crosby forgotten?' Commentary (Nov 2018), Vol.
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