They don't make em like they used to. WoW!
Instead we get Brittany and Paris and Mel and Babs....you get the picture *sigh*
I get the picture. I miss "old" Hollywood.
I get the picture. I miss "old" Hollywood.
Bing Crosby was the only man able to stare down Chuck Norris and live to tell about it.
(This sounded too much like those Chuch Norris lists that I had to say it) :>)
This may be urban legend but he was a truly marvelous entertainer. My favorite films were "Holiday Inn" and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arhtur's Court!
Are you a 'Zags fan?
Wasn't he born in Tacoma, Washington?
after Pvt Mullin "liberated" a Radio Berlin Magnetophon recorder in 1945, it was Ampex who back engineered it into the magnetic tape recorder using a variation of 3M recording tape. It was the Bingster who first recorded on these machines. It has been said that Bing didn't care for the drive into Hollywood every evening for the live show and for him this new tech absolutely changed his career.
He was a class act and makes Hollywood look as if they have no talent.
Ahhhhhhhh, Jimmy Stewart, what an absolutely classy man. Although I'm not from his generation, I'm really sad that he is gone. These group of people were such a source of American Pride; I get all choked up when I think about it.
Incredible actor and vocalist and American. HORRIBLE FATHER and HUSBAND.
There is no excuse for how he treated his kids and family.
Bing was a bastard.
Bing Crosby did a duet with David Bowie a few months before he died ("Little Drummer Boy"). Most know it as a classic Christmas song but there is a slightly longer version with some banter between Bing and David at the beginning. This is the version to get.
The amazing facts in your post aren't the Bing Crosby facts, they are the Burt Reynolds facts. Hell, I knew Bing was a legend.
Bing was indeed born in Tacoma, but raised in Spokane.
Now this story is from my mother who attended North Central High School in Spokane and Bing and brother Bob were fellow NC students at that time.
Bing, for some reason unknown to me, was expelled from NC and enrolled in Gonzaga Prep HS where the Jesuit priests got him under control.
Brother Bob Crosby was on the NC stage crew as was I many years later. As was the custom for stage crew members, we would find a spot up in the "fly" and paint our names on the wall - out of sight except for stage crew types. Bob's name along with his crew was there.
Bing and Bob went into the music industry/movies, but Bing always remembered his roots. He endowed Gonzaga University with the funds to build a library which bears his name on the Gonzaga campus.
Bing also owned a summer home on the shores of nearby Hayden Lake in Northern Idaho that the family would visit often.
When Bing Crosby does push ups, he doesnt push himself up. He pushes the earth down.
Its a known fact that the tears of Bing Crosby can cure cancer. Unfortunately, Bing has never cried in his life.
Wait a minute, those are Chuck Norris facts.
They don't make em like they used to. WoW!
Clearly Peter Faulk was a better choice as Columbo. IMHO!