You will be double-teamed by Bing Crosby and the herald angels wherever you go.
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In 1941, Ruby Elzy appeared in Birth of the Blues with Bing Crosby and Mary Martin.
Jascha Heifetz wrote a minor hit for Bing Crosby, and played on Crosby's recording.
There are nods to Bing Crosby, Gene Austin and Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards.
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What's for certain is that the modern version was created by Bing Crosby, who started hosting his annual "clambake" in 1937.
But the entertainer, who started out aged 10 with the Copenhagen Philarmonic, was soon appearing with Ed Sullivan and Bing Crosby.
In the '30s and '40s, voters routinely rewarded crowd-pleasers like Gone With the Wind and the Bing Crosby musical Going My Way.
They worked in night clubs and on radio and backed Bing Crosby on his number one record Swinging on a Star in 1944.
They also appeared in 16 films, including alongside Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Privates and with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Road to Rio.
When Mr Sinatra was making his first records with the swing bands of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, the foremost pop singer in America was Bing Crosby.
It's been almost 40 years since Peter Allen, the boy from Oz, wrote "Everything Old Is New Again" so long that Bing Crosby was still around to sing it.
The seven microphones, culled from our 85-year-old station's archives, are the kind of boxy contraptions that look great in front of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
Now, they may have different characters and soundtracks, right, but whether you grew up on Bing Crosby, Aretha Franklin or Beyonce -- (laughter) -- each story here is important.
The song was first published in 1913 and has resulted in hundreds of recorded versions by acts ranging from Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, The Pogues and Johnny Cash to The Muppets.
That jolly ditty, written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie in 1934, has been recorded by artists from Bing Crosby to Justin Bieber and continues to garner considerable airplay.
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But Day is also an excellent reminder that Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and the lunatic who sang Christmas songs with Bing Crosby have all been coexisting in the same brain for decades.
On Jack Paar's television show in 1964, Mr. Winters was handed a foot-long stick and he swiftly became a fisherman, violinist, lion tamer, canoeist, U.N. diplomat, bullfighter, flutist, delusional psychiatric patient, British headmaster and Bing Crosby's golf club.
They appeared in 16 films during the 1940s, including "Buck Privates, " "In the Navy, " and "Hold That Ghost" with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, "Hollywood Canteen" and "Road to Rio" with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, as well as in a number of musical films.
Among the collection's thousands of metal and lacquer discs and master mono tapes are released and unreleased versions of recordings by such seminal artists as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Connee Boswell, Jimmy Dorsey, the Mills Brothers, Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Waring, Judy Garland, and Dinah Washington, among others.
Fully titled "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears, " the track uses the classic disc (also 1928) by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby as a starting point, with an unmistakably similar two-beat underpinning, a slow grind that makes it impossible to pin it down either rhythmically or chronologically.
"Darling, I can hear Bing (Crosby) singing over the loudspeaker, " wrote Lloyd on July 6, 1944.
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