bing! We heart you!!! Kathryn Crosby: Yes. A year later, the same kind of thing happened. Nov. Brother Can You Spare a Dime reaches Number 1. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 300 recorders to his friend, guitarist Les Paul, which led to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. A number of Argentine-bred horses were purchased and shipped to race in the United States. [125] Crosby, who had a 13 handicap, won with his partner by one stroke. The following day he made his final appearance in a recording studio and sang eight songs at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for a radio program, which also included an interview with Alan Dell. I dont know what Garys problems were, but hed had them from the time he was a little boy. Sept. Again I didnt know that hed built Del Mar racetrack in California.There was so much of his life that I didnt know about. The trust, tied to high-performing oil stocks, folded in December 1989 following the 1980s oil glut. Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in West Columbia, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1955. In 1954, Joan Caulfield admitted to a relationship with a "top film star" who was a married man with children who at the end chose his wife and children over her. Christmas is very much a part of my life. Kathryn Crosby: Dr. Sullivan was my trustee, and he had a heart that did a tango. The weather is so good, and were starting to decorate just about now. It was from my gynecologist, and it said, She will be able to work for five months. I asked Otto Preminger, Is this a problem? Otto said, No. He starred in radio shows for nearly 30 years, remained a hit on tele vision for 25 years and had well over 300 chart singles, including more than 40 No1s. It was an amazing experience! Crosby gained valuable experience on tour for a year with Whiteman and performing and recording with Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, and Hoagy Carmichael. You can unsubscribe at any time. Later that year, according to Kathryn, Bing apologized to Kathryn for his fling with the future princess. In a poll of U.S. troops at the close of World War II, Crosby topped the list as the person who had done the most for G.I. It was halfway finished then. In a memorandum dated January 16, 1959, it is said: "The Salt Lake City Office has developed information indicating that Moe Dalitz received an invitation to join a deer hunting party at Bing Crosby's Elko, Nevada, ranch, together with the crooner, his Las Vegas dentist and several business associates." Alexander M. Poniatoff ordered Ampex, which he founded in 1944, to manufacture an improved version of the Magnetophone. Sometimes, if Crosby was having fun with a song and not really working at it, we had to make it up out of two or three parts. In his autobiography Don't Shoot, It's Only Me! If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing. Before 1958, gold records were awarded by record companies. 87 years (November 25, 1933) Kathryn Crosby/Age [116][117], Crosby's will established a blind trust in which none of the sons received an inheritance until they reached the age of 65, intended by Crosby to keep them out of trouble. The film Rhythm on the River is released. 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". [3], Crosby told Barbara Walters in a 1977 televised interview that he thought marijuana should be legalized because he figured it would make it much easier for the authorities to have a proper legal control over the market. Her best known role, however, was as the princess-in-distress in the special effects-laden epic fantasy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), which has since reached semi-cult status. She graduated from high school at 15, [1] after which she entered the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, though she . I was so innocent, just out from Texas. Jan. Bing Crosby Enterprises and ABC invest in Ampex machines, revolutionizing the radio industry. [24][25] Through another line, also on his father's side, Crosby is descended from Mayflower passenger William Brewster (c.1567 1644). There was a good piano player there, so they would do some songs and dances and remarks from the New York vaudeville show. He didnt always say it, but he always showed it. She soon rose through the standard starlet ranks from unbilled parts to chipper "sis" types and decorative love interests alongside filmdom's top male stars.She appeared opposite Richard Kiley in The Phenix City Story (1955), Tony Curtis in Mister Cory (1957), Jack Lemmon in Operation Mad Ball (1957), James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and Victor Mature in The Big Circus (1959), among others. Kathryn Crosby: Working with Otto Preminger was amazing. [81] NAFI Corporation and Crosby purchased television station KPTV in Portland, Oregon, for $4 million on September 1, 1959. It was very frightening to know which one they were going to operate on because you have to have one functioning kidney when youre operating on the other. The additional voice meant they could be heard more easily in large New York theaters. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): As a movie buff, I loved seeing clips from the old films. Bing and Dixie reconciled and he continued trying to help her overcome her alcohol issues. His mother was a second generation Irish-American. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Did you ever have to worry about Bing and his female co-stars becoming more than friends? [18] In 1913, his father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby[22] (18701950), a bookkeeper, and Catherine Helen "Kate" (ne Harrigan; 18731964). During the Golden Age of Radio, performers had to create their shows live, sometimes even redoing the program a second time for the West Coast time zone. She appeared as a guest star on her husband's 19641965 ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. [108], Crosby's younger son Phillip disputed his brother Gary's claims about their father. Oct. She, too, was in love with an older married man who was quite as famous as Gary [Cooper]. In 1957, he married Kathryn Grant, a young actress and singer he had met on the Paramount lot. Mary Frances Crosby (14 September 1959 Los Angeles, California, USA) He became the archetypal crooner of a period when the advent of radio broadcasting and talking pictures and the refinement of sound-recording . [50] It was on this special that he recorded a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace on Earth" with rock musician David Bowie. It was really a working place. Bing's name and his artistry saved the recording industry. I had more fun doing that. As music critic Henry Pleasants noted in The Great American Popular Singers, something new had entered American music, a style that might be called "singing in American" with conversational ease. The morning after the Academy Awards, which was my first outed date with Bing, I flew to Phenix City and did that movie with Richard Kiley. He learned how to pronounce German from written scripts and read propaganda broadcasts intended for German forces. Joan's sister Betty Caulfield confirmed the romantic relationship between Joan and Bing Crosby. How did Bing Crosby and Kathryn Grant meet? Kathryn Crosby: No. June Dixie has exploratory surgery, doctors discover terminal ovarian cancer. As Crosby wrote in his autobiography: By using tape, I could do a thirty-five or forty-minute show, then edit it down to the twenty-six or twenty-seven minutes the program ran. It was one of the magnetic tape recorders that BASF and AEG had built in Germany starting in 1935. We heart Hollywood History. On October 18, 1977, following a private funeral Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Westwood,[128] Crosby was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. He made a fortune from the Minute Maid Orange Juice Corporation, in which he was a principal stockholder.[73]. He loved to play. Bing is part owner and co-director and greets fans at the gate on opening day. 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. He loved to play. I just kept having children.They had three: Mary, who became an actress and found fame as Kristin Shepard, the woman responsible for shooting JR in Dallas; Nathaniel, who became a golfer and won the 1981 US Amateur Championship; and Harry, who appeared in the horror movie Friday The 13th but went on to become an investment banker. A "Battle of the Baritones" with singer Russ Columbo proved short-lived, replaced with the slogan "Bing Was King". The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. His record hit the charts on October 3, 1942, and rose to number 1 on October 31, where it stayed for 11 weeks. I decided that if its not supposed to be, it wouldnt be. Itll probably be one of the last Christmases because our kids have grown children, and theyre always moving, but they will be here this year. "[109] The film features the song Swinging on a Star, by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, which reaches Number 1 and wins an Academy Award for Best Song. "[70] His popularity in India led many Hindu singers to imitate and emulate him, notably Kishore Kumar, considered the "Bing Crosby of India". In his 1950 film Mr. Music, he is seen singing into an Ampex tape recorder that reproduced his voice better than anything else. The group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years. Later on, we finally managed to get married which was a secret. Dec 3, 2010 @ 16:20PM. I cant keep you out. So I was baptized and graduated from school, and then went to marry Bing in the same week. The song appeared in his films Holiday Inn (1942), anda decade laterin White Christmas (1954). We heart Celebrities. His records produced hits during the Depression when sales were down. SAYS Kathryn: He loved his sons. Today they wouldn't seem very off-color, but things were different on radio then. His composition "At Your Command" was number 1 for three weeks on the U.S. pop singles chart beginning on August 8, 1931. The comments made by FBI investigators in the memos discredited the claims made in the letters. The 6.5mm ferric-oxide-coated tape could record 20 minutes per reel of high-quality sound. He finally consented to her selection and by the end of the movie they were . He had four sons with his first wife Dixie Lee, who died at the age of 40 of cancer, and two sons and a daughter with his second wife, Kathryn. On August 12, 1938, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race won by Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit over Binglin's horse Ligaroti. And his star is still in the ascendant. Sept. After two postponements, Bing makes his solo radio debut. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. On June 16, 1963, Crosby received her nurse's cap, signifying her becoming a registered nurse after studying at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. Its a rolling cast that you do. July The Del Mar Racetrack opens in California. [19] The house sits on the campus of his alma mater, Gonzaga University, as a museum housing over 200 artifacts from his life and career, including his Oscar. Bing met Grace Kelly on the set of their movie The Country Girl in 1954, more than a year after his first wife's death and after he had already started dating his future wife, Kathryn Grant. He had no place to have a valve, so they had to create a place for a valve, and he lived for ten more years. Mar. He loved them all.People who watched him in movies knew exactly what he was like because that was what he put on the screen. We couldn't use the jokes, but Bill asked us to save the laughs. Oct. Ive Got a Pocketful of Dreams reaches Number 1on the charts and remains for four weeks. 3 in the UK singles charts. Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multimedia star of the first half of the 20th century, and now the public and his fans can learn much more about the icon in a new documentary, American Masters: Bing Crosby Rediscovered, which premieres nationwide Tuesday, December 2 at 8:00 pm on PBS. Films Road to Rio, a film is financed by Crosby, Hope and Paramount. Why dont we write some movies for them? Dolores thought that was pretty funny, and everybody thought it would be a good idea. I needed something to lift my spirits. The nation's appetite for Crosby's voice and personality appears insatiable. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Rosemary Clooney was one of his best friends? I don't think he did anything wrong. Mar. Son: Harry Lillis August 8, 1958 Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Bing won over fans with his laid-back, cool persona and smooth vocals. It was much more complicated then. Bing and Kathryn were married October 24, 1957 til his death on October 14, 1977 they had 3 children. He got off to college for about six weeks, and Gary said to him, Your girlfriends waiting for you, and your cars in the garage. They said, Are you tired? and he said No, and he fell and it was over.Crosby, 74, died from a heart attack, four days after his final concert.Kathryns anguish was compounded when Gary wrote a book accusing his father of being abusive, both verbally and physically, and claiming that he was regularly beaten with a metal-studded belt.The claims were dismissed by Garys brothers, two of whom later committed suicide while suffering from depression. bing! 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 78rpm. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Gary accused his father of horrible physical abuse in a memoirreleased after Bing's death, and there appeared to be a lot of turmoil in his firstmarriage and with their four sons. Crosby continued to finance the development of videotape. They each earned $75 a week. Kathryn Crosby: Actually my sister, who is four years older, and I are changing our birthdays this year to May because in May, the Crosby golf tournament takes place. Its not heavy. He took one more step and then fell dead. She was his very dearest friend, and they sang so perfectly together. [75][76][77] He used his clout, both professionally and financially, for innovations in audio. Mrs. Crosby, how would you describe your married relationship with Bing? [104], After Crosby's death, his eldest son, Gary, wrote a highly critical memoir, Going My Own Way (1983), depicting his father as cruel, cold, remote, and physically and psychologically abusive. [47] Crosby was dismissive of his role in the song's success, saying "a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully".[48]. Actually there are a couple of advantages.. Without him, Jack Kapp wouldn't have had a chance in hell of making Decca work and the Great Depression would have wiped out phonograph records for good."[43]. June Signs a 5-year contract with ABC to star in ten TV shows and produce another ten for $2 million. The Recording Industry Association of America did not institute its gold record certification program until 1958 when Crosby's record sales were low. 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. Obviously, Grace never married Bing and she would ultimately call off her engagement to Oleg when she met Monaco's Prince Rainier in 1955. Oct. People were there from Paramount, and one big executive producer said, Theyre very good together. By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didnt want to survive without me. It topped the charts again in 1945 and a third time in January 1947. There have been disputes between Crosby's two families beginning in the late 1990s. [125] According to Barrios, Crosby was in good spirits throughout the day, and was photographed several times during the round. Daughter: Mary Frances September 14, 1959 This was across the street from Paramount, a little place called Lucys.We only ever had romantic dates. [71], Throughout Europe and Russia, Crosby was also known as "Der Bingle", a pseudonym coined in 1944 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. God I miss that voice. I asked him if he liked baseball. We rented a place called Cranbourne Court, and our two families lived together. 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