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Bing Crosby was the quintessential crooner. His duet with David Bowie “The Little Drummer Boy” is perfect for now.
Yes, it was great 👍. Bing was the Master, and David gave us some unforgettable music, also. Their legends will live on.
That duet is one of my all time favorites.. such a great song
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Shortly before he died in 1977, Bing performed another iconic Christmas song with David Bowie, The Little Drummer Boy. Their harmonies are amazing.
Classic!
That was Bing Crosby's last Christmas special.He died before it was aired.
@@tonycocchiola7192 I play his White Christmas at the end of that show and thank God, for that last time. My Father met Bing when they were both in Canada. Bing was doing a segment for the American Sportsman show. The deer in the picture was in my yard with me, when I took this picture. They know they are safe, with me.
Awesome! Exactly what I was gonna say!
Gotta watch Bing singing “Silver Bells,” “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,” “Silent Night,” “I’ll be home for Christmas,” They have always been some of my favorite Christmas songs.
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Oh yes please, totally agree, "Silver Bells" should be the next one
I love it when he sings it with Rosemary Clooney best, from the actual movie, _White Christmas._ I love that movie, much more than _Holiday Inn._
_White Christmas,_ the movie, also had Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. 👍
one of my favorites too
The musical performances are great (minus one) but the story of Holiday Inn makes me mad. With friends like Fred Estaire's character, who needs enemies.
@@ristiannarussell4622 Good point!!
Love when Bing sings " Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" with Rosemary Clooney in " White Christmas". Also when he and Danny Kaye lip-sync to "Sisters", it's hilarious!
@@Music_Lover26 Yes!! The _Sisters_ number cracks me up every time! 😂
This is the quintessential version. Irving Berlin wrote this song in 1941 for the musical film "Holiday Inn" and Bing Crosby brought it to worldwide fame. Sales of Bing Crosby's original version is about 50 million copies. Many other artists have covered this song over the decades and all of their sales combined were 50 million. So this song has total sales of 100 million. The 1st public performance of this song was in 1941, just a few weeks after the "Bombing Of Pearl Harbor".
Berlin was like the Beatles, Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix.
He couldn’t read a note of music, but he wrote some of the greatest songs ever composed.
I read some time ago that this was the best selling Christmas song every year until Mariah Carey knocked it from #1 with All I Want For Christmas Is You.
absolutely one of the best voices ever.. no one can sing like that today.. zero effort.. a God given gift..
It is the quintessential version. If you look it up, this version has sold more than 50 million copies... Irving Berlin, I believe from the movie Holiday Inn. The woman singing is Marjorie Reynolds. You can't go wrong with Bing. You should react to the duet with David Bowie called The Little Drummer Boy.
Still the top selling single in history.
That's the best lil drummer boy version
Martha Mears actually dubbed Marjorie Reynolds' singing voice in this film.
@@kevinhouse4376 you beat me to it 😉
@@samhain1894 & @Kevin House that's y'all, I didn't know that. I guess MrLBoyd and I are both learning something new today 😉
Can you imagine, it's 1942-1945 being a Soldier far off in a foreign country, sitting in a foxhole, struggling to keep yourself and your buddies alive long enough to see the end of the biggest war in history. It's Christmas and this song comes on over the speakers, this song brought them all back home for a moment or two.
I'm sitting here trying to imagine how someone can spend even ONE Christmas living in the US and never have heard White Christmas by Bing Crosby. This duet version was only for the movie but it was Bing's solo on this that sold several million copies and his is THE version of White Christmas.
The "pay off in eggs" line was not slang. This movie "Holiday Inn" is about a guy in show business who is sick of the rat race in the city. He thinks a life in the country will be peaceful, so he purchases a farm and tries to run it. He discovers farming is much harder work than show business, so he decides to convert his farm to a nightclub/hotel open only on holidays. The young woman coincidentally is struggling to get into show business, and she doesn't care what she is paid as long as he hires her.
Thank you.
"pay off" is not a current or standard word usage, though, making it effectively slang. At the very least, it's dated language, which may well be called "slang" in the slang of MrL. ;) We use the past-tense "paid off" today, but that refers to being selling out or being bribed to go against ethical standards. Here, she uses it to simply refer to a paycheck. Also, the idea that poultry products would represent paltry (heh, get it?) remuneration is also out-of-date. Eggs are expensive!
@@Brooke-rw8rc ... definitely not slang.
Thank you for the lovely reminder. I watched this movie so very long ago now. It's a great movie from the past. :)
@@Brooke-rw8rc I've always thought eggs are cheap, compared to other food items. They're especially cheap if you live on a farm, like Bing Crosby's character in this movie.
I loved Bing Crosby when I was little. I'm 68 now, so that shows how old this was. He was a great singer.
White Christmas sung by Crosby is the most popular Christmas song of all time. Bing, the crooner, was the Michael Jackson of his day, during the era of the Big Bands. I grew up in Manhattan and for the whole month of December you could hear Bing singing from PA speakers out of every store you walked by. I can’t imagine anyone never hearing him before? It’s funny that the three most popular Xmas songs were written by Jewish composers, Irving Berlin being the most prolific.
I’m only 26 but my parents are much older so I grew up on black and white movies. White Christmas and Holiday Inn (the superior movie) made me fall in love with Bing Crosby and are so so nostalgic for me now.
This IS the quintessential version of White Christmas!
Bing Crosby and David Bowie have an amazing version of The Little Drummer Boy. It's beautiful.
This song has always been a Christmas staple in our house. Can't believe it's your first time hearing it. This is Holiday Inn he starred in with Fred Astaire. Great film, but White Christmas the movie and Album are a must.
Did you see Fred Astaire in Finagins Rainbow? You won't regret making it to the end... only that it's over.
@@Juber777 Hey don't be mean, and it's Finian's Rainbow. My wife loves that movie. We are both huge Fred Astaire fans and love Tommy Steele, not to mention the lovely Petula Clark.
@@gavinholt5428 did I come off mean? If I do it is because I'm in constant pain in my head, I'm very irritable from it and mild suicidal thoughts but family and friends....oh, I'm glad you have seen it ☺️, have you ever seen Tommy in The Happiest Millionaire?
@@gavinholt5428 and thanks for the spelling correction, my grammar has never been great
To many, Bing is known as The Voice of Christmas. His renditions are frequently the gold standard, and in a lengthy career, he did a ton of Christmas songs. Every year I manage to track down 5 or 6 more Christmas songs that he did that I have never heard anybody do before. Of course, in that number, some are incredible, and some are a little bit more forgettable, but his performance is always the absolute smoothest!
Love Bing. One of the original crooners. Voices are so pure. Love your reactions.❤ White Christmas was his song for sure.
My grandparents were from the WWII generation and this always reminds me so much of them..
Ah, 'Holiday Inn', a movie I have watched several times a years ever since I first got a VHS copy. Upgraded to DVD and then to blu ray. One of the best Christmas movies ever. And the character of Mamie is the most honest, sincere, truthful, and morally straight one in the entire movie. She doesn't have any angle or agenda. Everyone else has a angle or agenda. Bing's character, Fred's character, the two female leads, the manager, and even the Inn employee, they all have something they are trying to gain by sneaking around and working things behind the others' backs.
Mamie is not treated as a servant, she is treated by Bing with respect and dignity, and she has the guts to snap Bing's character out of his funk and motivate him to fight for the woman he loves. Very, very strong character. I don't know what else she was in, but she was always my favorite 'Holiday Inn' character.
One of my favorite male singers ever. Thanks for doing this one!
This is, hands down, my FAVORITE Christmas song!! Specifically by Bing Crosby
He was the first to ever sing this song in public in 1941. Excellent!
That's what you call a crooner. Just beautiful 🌲
This is the original version of White Christmas from the motion picture White Christmas. The single version by Bing Crosby featured a female choir and became the best selling single of all time.
He is the GOAT of crooners and was not a small person
The movie White Christmas is one we watch each Christmas time. I love Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, they played perfectly off of each other. That is Rosemary Clooney singing with Bing.
The interesting thing about this song is that it was originally written for the movie "Holiday Inn" in 1942. Bing Crosby sings the song with Martha Mears whose voice was dubbed in for his costar Marjorie Reynolds. Fun Fact is that the attack on Pearl Harbor (the 80th anniversary was yesterday) came in the middle of filming Holiday In which is one the reasons the song for the 4th of July was so patriotic. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The movie "White Christmas" - the video clip that you used - which many people associate with the song did not come out until almost a decade later in 1954.
Bing Crosby is celebrated here in the city I grow up in. He went to Gonzaga University and here in Spokane Wa and we have a theatre named after him here. We have the sleigh from the movie he was in from his Broadway shows and continues to share it with his musical talents around the Christmas season. I’m so happy to see others enjoy his music as he is so talented and a pleasure to listen to he was quite the dancer too.☺️😇🙏🏻✨
The best selling song of all time.....
I think of Crosbys voice as butter too. Best way to describe it.
Nice reaction! Bing Crosby is the crooner who inspired so many who followed after him. He had a long and distinguished career as a top crooner, radio and movie star. From the 20s through the 70s. Your comment about him not looking like he would have the voice that he did is spot on. His offhand, folksy style and joking manner did not give a true indication of that amazing voice . Stars who worked with him said he barely rehearsed, just basically came in and sang those wonderful songs. He did a series of funny Road movies with Bob Hope that still make me laugh to this day. Crosby also did some serious dramatic roles, he could do it all. (Okay, he wasn't much of a dancer.) Once you've heard Bing Crosby singing White Christmas, Nat King Cole singing The Christmas Song and Judy Garland singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, that's about as good as it gets. Happy holidays to you and all your loved ones! Love that you react to so many varied artists and genres.
I was born the day the died October 14 1977! What a magnificent golden voice crooner he was! Cheers from Salt Lake City
They did a movie around this song White Christmas, it is on every year a classic. No one sings it better than Bing.
Bing sang White Christmas in both Holiday Inn and White Christmas movies. Bing Crosby version. In Holiday Inn, the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings "White Christmas" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears.
Hi, Bing Crosby was/is an Icon/Legend. I have two sons 1 is 32 and 1 is 23, I'm their 61 year mother. I grew up with the movie White Christmas. This song was a filler. At first it wasn't supposed to be in the movie. It grew out to be the greatest Christmas song ever. Every year we watch this movie. Both my sons love music and also know a lot about the history of different styles of music. Since music has always been very important in our family they learned and apprised different genres and respect it. Of course they have their favorites. Music unites you can learn a lot through it. Watch the movie if you want/like. You can see the warm message inside.
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Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - Gone Fishing. 💜💜💜
Its his original.. there is a movie of that title with Danny Kay and it should be watched this time of year. I have loved it since childhood. I think you would enjoy it.
I think this is a scene from the movie "Holiday Inn". It's a favorite of mine. Anything from Bing Crosby is a classic. Try "Going My Way" next.
A truly timeless song. He sang this song a USO show in ww2 to over 100K troops, many weeping longing of home. Weeks later many of these soldiers would be encompassed and give their lives in the battle of the bulge in winter of 44-45. He said it took all he had to not break down crying while performing that day. Reminds me of my grandparents, I can smell their home listening to this song.
The actress was dubbed.
Bing Crosby was the greatest crooner ever, he also sang with Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong in the movie "High Society".
My Namny had his Christmas album and the whole family listened to it every year until she went to heaven. So many great holiday memories.
Classic Christmas song in any household
I sing in the church choir and one of the baritones does a very good singing impression of Bing Crosby. We’re rehearsing for Midnight Mass.
Lots of great music in this film " Holiday Inn". enjoy
Being Crosby’s White Christmas is the number one selling single of all time. Exceeding 50 million sales. Look it up, it’s in the Guinness book of world records. Love your show.
This is Bing Crosby's song. Many people recorded it but it Bing's. This is from the 1942 movie "Holiday Inn". They later made the movie "White Christmas".
I love Bing Crosby's voice. It is so soothing, and brings me back to my childhood.
This was the introduction of this classic. The egg line refers to it taking place on a farm, , and the girl (played by Marjorie Reynolds) just wanting a chance to perform and show her talent and being willing to work for food instead of cash). The song, written by Irving Berlin, won the Academy Award for best song. Bing's recording of White Christmas is the highest-selling record ever.
An absolutely classic Christmas song. Love this. I think this is from the movie "Holiday Inn."
Bing was the first "crooner" in fact I think the word was invented for him. He introduced this song in the movie, "Holiday Inn (1942)." He reprised it in the movie "White Christmas (1954)." BTW, "pay in eggs" was simply a reference to the fact that the Inn was also a farm in the country. He won an Oscar for the starring role in "Going My Way" (1944). He's also famous for the "Road" movies he made with Bob Hope.
The Andrews Sisters are another great musical act from this time. Bing worked with them a few times. They are my personal favorite from that era.
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters - South America, Take It Away is one of my all time favorites!
Their version of "Jingle Bells" is fire!
One of my top 3 Christmas songs ever. It always gets me in my nostalgia feels. My mom loves it, dad loves it, grandparents all loved it. It's my favorite classic. Just beautiful.
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Vintage clip here from the 1942 movie "Holiday Inn" the actress singing with Bing was Marjorie Reynolds. Another Bing classic is "Silver Bells" with Rosemary Clooney, a classic. Also Judy Garland "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
My favorite Christmas movie is called White Christmas and Starr's Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (Georges mom) and of course they song this song!!! Opens with Bing singing this song!
This is from the Movie "Holiday Inn" The woman is Marjorie Reynolds. This is the song that fooled everyone. The hit song was suppose to be "Be Careful, It's My Heart" . Later the movie White Christmas was conceived to capitalize on the hit song and filmed in color. I've always preferred this one to white christamas.
Holiday inn is a christmas classic
You must listen to "You are my Sunshine" I remember when this was a hit in the 1950s. He has such a beautiful Baritone voice.
Bing Crosby, is just pure vocal butter. It spreads over you, and is D-lish....
Where Would we be without the Women and Men from that era? An AMAZING ERA of Amazing Singers and Actors!! RIP all we lost....You will Always be REMEMBERED!! ❤️
Back in the 40s and 50s it was fairly common for people to pay their tab with eggs, literally. My mother used to buy postage stamps with an egg or two taken from her hen! She was a sharecropper in Virginia. I'd guess in Manhattan, most people wouldn't have had chickens! Rural folk had to barter more than city folk. Excellent reaction, btw!
I grew up with his Christmas album. Also Johnny Mathis Christmas album. We decorated our tree and house every year playing their albums. I can't decorate without it
I believe this is from the movie Holiday Inn. It is where this song was introduced. Some believe it was the movie White Christmas. Both movies are fantastic.
This is a clip from the movie Holiday Inn. A classic Christmas movie and an iconic Christmas song.
Little drummer boy is good by him. He introduced the white Christmas in the movie holiday inn. Later they made a movie white Christmas which is a popular holiday movie.
Bing Crosby was a crooner and all round entertainer, back then lots of people paid in food not money, cause they could grow or raise food. Money was hard to come by.
Loved all his movies.
They could sing and dance at the same time and not miss a beat.
Bells of Saint Mary's is on of my favorites.
Bing Crosby's White Christmas is my all time favorite album of christman music!
This is from the movie Holiday Inn. Basically where and when this song was introduced to the world.
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra have a Christmas complication they put out way back. My mom listened to it on cassettes and I made sure to update to CD’s a while ago and now look it up online. The voices of Bing and Frank are both amazing. From what I’ve heard, Bing did not want to commercialize or cheapen his performances and so did not get as much play time as Sinatra or Dean Martin and such. Saying that, Bing Crosby is one of my favorite singers from that era.
I love this movie...so much fun with the different holidays.
I love the old black and white movies of this time period.
Gotta do the Weird Al Christmas songs! Christmas at Ground Zero and The Night Santa Went Crazy!
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Crosby's singing demonstrates the difference between a head voice and chest voice.
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Yes he could stand and hum and I would swoon. His voice is amazing.
You really need to watch the movie White Christmas any Holiday Inn Bing Crosby It's not only a fantastic singer with a very unique voice, but he is a great actor, and a phenomenal dancer .. You will not regret it I promise
I grew up in Florida, and when I was very young I went Christmas-shopping at the Altamonte mall one time, and was treated to a local high school choir. They were very good, and did a wonderful version of "White Christmas," despite being an all-black choir from an all-black school (yeah I'm old) in Florida where we don't get much snow. I thought the irony was delightful.
Yes, Bing has a magic voice. I remember a (very very) old cartoon showing a chicken-farm with two different stages on which roosters are "crooning," and as they sing, the chickens swoon -- the action switches back and forth between the two singers. Their voices: Sinatra and Bing. It's social commentary on the fact that at the time, the two singers who made the ladies swoon were Sinatra, and Bing.
By the way, this song was the #1 selling record of all time until it was finally surpassed by the Beatles' "Hey Jude."
This song was written for this movie Holiday Inn.
Bing Crosby is the OG Crooner. He's had many hits but is known for his Christmas songs nowadays. His Silent Night is excellent. I've got a Pocketful of Pennys is one of his #1s.
This song was written by Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby was the best at singing it. I watched this movie every year when I was a kid. I believe the woman singing with him is Rosemary Clooney. Bing was not a large man.
Always makes me feel happy inside.
Perfect song to start Christmas in July with in a couple of weeks
He was running an inn in the countryside (Holiday Inn). 'I don't care if you pay me off in eggs.' was meant literally. She wants to be in show business, but has never had a chance to perform.
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are legendary.
My favorite Bing Crosby is a duet with Frank Sinatra called What A Swell Party This Is, from the only movie they appeared in together, High Society. It's funny, playful, and showcases both singers' trademark styles. Highly recommended.
"High Society" is my favorite too, but Bing and Frank did appear together in another movie: "Robin and the 7 Hoods," along with Sinatra's "Rat Pack" companions Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Their rendition of the song, "Style" is great and there's even a distant Christmas connetion. Although "Style" is not a Christmas song, Crosby did perform it on at least one of his many TV Christmas specials (sometime in the 1970s, I think.)
Most played version of this song - EVER!
According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.[1] The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and-remarkably-still retains the title more than 50 years later". Guinness World Records
Bing recorded this and it came out a few weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Bing would travel around performing for the troops during the war but he never wanted to sing this song because he believed it would make the men too nostalgic and sad.
However he would always give in and sing it because the soldiers would start hollering for it.
Man I miss being a kid my grandfather grew up in this era and he would sing and whistle the whole song and almost sounded just like him but I think any grandfather from the 30's-40's just had that whistle to them lol
Irving Berlin wrote it for this movie...and Bing's voice.
Bing and Louis Armstrong did a song together called gone fishin which was great! But if you want just bing, don’t fence me in, it’s been a long long time and swinging on a star. Silent night is another Christmas song that really showcases bings voice
Bing Crosby & David Bowie duets - little drummer boy & peace on earth.
Just noticed someone else gave the same suggestions.
Pistol packin Mama, The Whiffenpoof Song, Blue Shies, Swing on a Star, Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra and many albums of Christmas music
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•Now you has Jazz
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Oldy oldy oldy but a goody!. Enjoy sir!
Mele Kalikimaka is a HUGELY underrated Bing Crosby track, and sooooo appropriate right now.
I used to live across the street from this guy's son. His Daughter may or may not have knocked on the door of my moms house a few times late at night....
People usually don't get that this is a summer song. He's dreaming of a white Christmas, hence it is not Christmas time when the song is supposed to be being sung. Just reflecting of those white Christmas's he had as a kid.
Microphone and sound-recording technology had just made major leaps in this era. like the autotune explosion of the aughts, or the proliferation of synthesizer tech in the 80's, this led to a large amount of experimentation and hyper-focus on the new tech. The style of singing is called "crooning". For the first time ever, you could put a mic close to someone's mouth and get incredible fidelity and clarity not previously possible. Singers no longer needed to project their voices like Broadway actors or opera singers to be heard or recorded. You could have a singer on a record- or even in a live concert- singing at very intimate levels who could be heard over the power of a full orchestra.
The voice "doesn't sound like it's coming from him" because you'd have to be 3" away from his mouth for him to sound like that, whereas the rest of the scene was recorded at more common mic distances.
Basically what I'm saying is that Bing Crosby was the T-Pain of his generation. 😅
I found myself smiling with tears in my eyes as i listened. Something about this song touches the heart