Stars, family & Co. talking about Bing Crosby

Videos:
Danny Kaye
0:00 Bing's role in broadcasting, among performers and his professionalism
0:15 the making of his and Bing's parody scene of "Sisters" in "White Christmas"(1954)
Dean Martin
1:47 Bing's influence on Dean himself, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como etc and on Bing's passing
Ella Fitzgerald
2:29 how much she loves Bing's low notes; Bing's influence on other singers
2:48 Bing's extreme modesty, casualness and the love people had for him
Fred Astaire
3:31 Bing being a hard worker despite his "lazy" image; Bing's dancing
Bob Hope
4:33 reminiscing about the time when they lived in a house together when they filmed "Road to Hong Kong"; a stage show at which Bing spontaneously decided to appear; missing Bing
5:33 Bing being an underrated comedian
6:12 Bing opening up to him emotionally after Bing's wife Dixie died from cancer
6:34 Bing's golfing skills and obsession with golf
6:58 Bing as an actor
7:10 Gary Crosby's book "Going My Own Way"; Bing's first four sons; Bing being charitable and loyal
9:10 Bing's recordings and Bing as a singer (sound)
Grace Kelly
9:37 Bing being a kind and understanding person; his ease
10:05 filming "The Country Girl"(1954) with Bing (in which Bing had a dramatic part)
Gary Crosby (son)
(before "Going My Own Way")
10:41 his parents marrying in 1930; his mother
11:10 his and his brothers' upbringing
11:40 Bing having been advised by the doctor to go abroad to film "Little Boy Lost"(1953) while Dixie was ill
12:05 his father's second family
13:17 Bing being uncomfortable with being emotional in front of others; how Bing would express his love and how Bing himself felt that it was an obstacle
(after "Going My Own Way":)
14:15 Bing not being different than all the other fathers during the 1930s concerning raising children and punishment
Mary Crosby (daughter)
14:31 her father's difficulty to express love openly
14:52 her family's privacy
15:18 comparing her father's first and second families
15:39 Gary Crosby confessing and apologizing for lying for money in his book "Going My Own Way" about their father being "cruel"
16:23 on Bing getting top billing for Louis Armstrong in 1936, the first time a black person got equal billing in a "white" movie
16:44 fishing and performing with her father
Mary Martin
17:40 Bing's shyness; filming love scenes with him
18:31 Bing chewing gum while working on radio
18:53 incident during a radio broadcast when Bing dropped his script
19:15 Bing's marriage with Kathryn Grant
Dinah Shore
19:56 Bing's ease and professionalism; describing Bing's personality
20:35 Bing being a large part in her life; his personality and originality and his symbolic influences
Rosemary Clooney
21:14 meeting Bing for the first time
21:32 Bing's professionalism and his ability to put difficult people at ease
21:59 Bing not socializing much; his reluctance to openly show his emotions; being easy to approach; Bing not being cold but compassionate and supportive
22:57 how Bing told the audience at the London Palladium "I love you"
23:35 Bing's marriage with Kathryn Grant
24:38 what she treasures the most about "White Christmas"(1954)
24:52 reacting to the reviews to Gary Crosby's "Going My Own Way"
25:31 working with Bing and his professionalism
25:54 Bing having helped her returning to the stage after her nervous breakdown; some fun facts; him being comfortable on the stage and on the Palladium shows
27:49 recording their radio broadcasts at her home when she was pregnant; clambakes
29:17 show at the Uris Theater in NYC; (Mike Douglas) on Bing's worldwide reach; his humor
30:12 anecdote about Bing's new maid having thrown out his toupee; toupee wearing habits; Bing's humility
Twiggy
31:42 singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas with Bing
Frank Capra
33:06 Bing and Americanness
Jane Wyman
33:40 Bing's shyness
Mary Carlisle
34:10 working with Bing on "College Humor"(1933); his ears
Donald O'Connor
34:48 Bing always being ready to help
35:05 having wanted to be Bing's best friend; Bing's fear of his high position
Jimmy Van Heusen
35:17 writing songs for Bing
35:58 where the idea for Swinging On A Star came from
Joan Caulfield
36:20 describing Bing and the filming of "Blue Skies"(1946); wether Bing realized how great he was; wether he was a strict father
Merle Oberon
38:31 Bing's difficulty to show his emotions to others
38:41 Bing marrying Kathryn Grant
Curt Gowdy
39:28 Bing's personality and intelligence; working with Bing; incident while driving together on a highway
Fred MacMurray
40:20 Fred wanting to recieve a formal invitation to the Bing Crosby golf tournament
Carroll Carroll
40:57 the Kraft Music Hall shows
Ken Carpenter
41:21 rehearsals for the Kraft Music Hall shows
Alan Fisher (butler)
41:40 Bing's personality
42:13 Bing rarely inviting celebrities or friends, but readily entertaining fans at his home
[LIST CONTINUES IN COMMENT SECTION; SOURCES]
Copyright disclaimer: fair use, strictly for educational purposes

[@CliffMcAulay]

This is great E.P! I was very moved by how loved 'ole Bing was. Not surprised, but moved. Thank you for uploading this.

[@malcolmmacfarlane4357]

This is a wonderful compilation and really helps people to know the real Bing.

[@iannottingham2839]

What a beautifully crafted, sequenced and edited ninety-two minutes. It's a wonderfully sensitive and pitch-perfect tribute to Mr Crosby. You have created with the utmost of care, a most naturally flowing narrative worthy of the late entertainer's own style and ease. Thank you very much indeed.

[@ep8324]

Thank you so much for your kind words🙏 It's a pleasure that you approve of this compilation in Bing's honor. Thank you

[@SpudsFamilyJewels]

Bing is a legend. Was and is. Admired by even the biggest of the time then and now. But little self awareness of his own greatness... abilities... achievements. Humble.

[@kleovoulos78s]

Great video !

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Thank you, glad you like it!

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[CONTINUING LIST FROM VIDEO DESCRIPTION]
Andy Williams
43:29 recording Swinging On A Star with Bing; Bing guesting on his TV show
Hal Kanter (radio writer)
44:09 Bing helping Judy Garland gain her confidence back after her failed suicide attempt
44:47 Bing's personality
Ret Turner (costume designer)
45:10 Bing's professionalism and way of working
William Link (screenwriter)
45:57 wanting Bing for the role of Columbo; Bing's acting skills
Mitzi Gaynor
46:42 working with Bing on "Anything Goes"(1955); marveling at Bing
Bob Markell (producer)
47:08 working with Bing on "Dr Cook's Garden"(1971); Bing deciding himself to play the part with a beard
Skitch Henderson
48:48 describing Bing; Bing supporting and helping him to be transferred when Skitch was a pilot during WW2
49:40 Bing advising him to treat "Skitch" like his real name
50:24 a philosophy of Bing's
Buz Cohan (writer)
50:33 Bing's intelligence and eagerness to try out new things
Carolyn Schneider (niece)
51:12 Bing's personality and love for his family; Bing supporting her through college and her early acting career; living with Bing and his mother at his house; Bing singing around the house (sound)
Bob Finkel (producer)
53:08 working on 10 of Bing's Christmas shows on TV; anecdote on how he and Bing became friends
Gary Giddins (biographer)
56:10 finding out that Gary Crosby had not written much of "Going My Own Way"; Phil Crosby's statements contradicting those of Gary's
57:18 Bing's time and a failed prank by studio musicians on him; multiple quotations (sound)
1:00:25 quoting Rosemary Clooney on Bing's singing and Bing having big fans in the opera world
1:01:00 quoting Louis Armstrong on Bing and quoting Bing on Louis Armstrong
1:01:26 Bing's and Louis Armstrong's musical influence on each other and their friendship; quoting Joe Bushkin on what Bing said about Armstrong
1:02:33 Bing giving Armstrong a part in a 1936 movie and insisting that he gets top billing (first time dor a black person in a white film); on Bing never negotiating if he knew he was right;
1:03:25 Bing insisting on having Louis Armstrong on his TV show in 1957 despite controversy because of Armstrong's recent political statements
1:04:29 on meeting Bing himself in New York in 1976 and confronting him with Armstrong's statement of never having been invited to Bing's house; on Bing rarely inviting someone after 1943
1:07:03 the only diary that Bing kept in his life (on his time in Europe entertaining the oversea troops in 1944)
1:08:40 Bing not allowing to be seen publicly with politicians and not wanting to use his fame for politics
1:09:45 Bing's political views (Republican, Vietnam War, race, JFK, homosexuality etc); quoting Anthony Quinn
1:10:35 Bing, HUAC and the Hollywood blacklist; quoting Meta Rosenberg
written quotes
1:12:23 Mel Torme on recording with Bing for the first time and Bing's influence on him
1:12:59 Nelson Riddle on Bing's personality
1:13:18 Count Basie on working with Bing and Bing's chemistry with Louis Armstrong
1:14:15 James Cagney on watching Bing perform on stage one night and how hard he actually worked
1:15:08 Judy Garland on Bing calling her on his radio show when she needed it the most
1:15:43 Frank Capra on Bing's different skills, multitasking, relaxed appearance, hard work, ad-libbing, photographic memory
1:16:38 Dorothy Lamour on Bing being warm and social one day and cold and distanced the next
1:16:49 Nanette Fabray on Bing having eyes that could make him look cold although he wasn't; comparison to Einstein
1:17:21 Lindsay Crosby (son) on how his father kept the family together when his mother Dixie was dying
1:18:20 Phil Crosby (son) on Gary Crosby having lied in his book about their father having been cruel; on Bing's love for them
1:19:06 Phil Silvers on Bing's stage fright before big live audiences
1:19:24 Danny Kaye (reacting ro Bing's passing) on Bing's role in showbuisness
1:19:37 Bob Hope on missing Bing after his passing
1:19:48 Donald O'Connor on working wih Bing and being starstruck
1:20:03 Phil Harris reacting to Bing's passing
1:20:12 Donald Mills on Bing's friendship with the Mills Brothers
1:20:21 a WW2 infantryman writing home to his wife about Bing
1:21:03 Mack Sennett on Bing's comedic ability
1:21:42 Inger Stevens giving a characterization of Bing
1:22:27 Milt Hinton on Bing's theoretical approach to songs
1:23:01 Peggy Lee on Bing taking her out one evening and after, a talk, singing a song for her
1:23:42 Peggy Lee on notes and presents from Bing
1:24:00 Peggy Lee on two funny incidents
1:24:41 Peggy Lee on Bing being protective and supportive and helping her fo get confident on stage
1:25:19 Peggy Lee on Bing offering every help from babysitting to his own blood when her husband was ill
1:25:33 Peggy Lee characterizing Bing
1:25:57 Frank Sinatra reacting to Bing's passing; on Bing's influence and friendship
1:26:21 Mary Crosby (daughter) on her relationship with her father
1:26:49 Jimmy Van Heusen characterizing Bing and on what Bing means to him
1:27:17 Joan Fontaine on working with Bing on "The Emperor Waltz"(1948)
1:27:31 Louis Armstrong on Bing's voice
1:27:44 Louis Armstrong on Bing's singing
1:28:11 Tony Bennett on Bing's popularity
1:28:24 Tony Bennett on Bing's influence on him
1:28:47 a nurse on seeing Bing hiding and breaking up in tears while visiting injured soldiers during WW2
1:29:17 Sammy Davis Jr. on being in awe of Bing while rehearsing Mr Booze with him, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra
1:29:47 Rhonda Fleming on working with Bing on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"(1949); his humor and memory
1:30:17 Anthony Quinn on Bing treating minorities just the same as anybody else and on their friendship
1:31:12 Johnny Mercer on Bing's warmth, eyes and aloofness
1:31:24 Ken Barnes on different peoples' relationship with Bing

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Sources of the video clips:
Bing Crosby: His Life and Legend (1978)
1978 interviews with Danny Kaye, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Grace Kelly, Gary Crosby, Mary Crosby, Mary Martin, Dinah Shore, Rosemary Clooney, Twiggy, Frank Capra, Jane Wyman, Mary Carlisle, Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Van Heusen, Merle Oberon, Fred MacMurray, Carroll Carroll, Ken Carpenter and Alan Fisher
allzer.com/movie/PGpDPybG-bing-crosby-his-life-and-legend.html
Bob Hope interviews with Bobby Wygant from the Bobby Wygant Archive
1978: ruclips.net/video/4g9Zc_3cCkc/видео.html
1983: ruclips.net/video/bbRuisA9nu8/видео.html
1984: ruclips.net/video/jMU1xV2d8yw/видео.html
1985: ruclips.net/video/_EFkEs2BJcw/видео.html
1974 Bob Hope interview with Gord Atkinson from radio series "The Crosby Years": archive.org/details/gord-atkinsons-the-crosby-years-part-1-of-10
undated Gary Crosby interview and 2014 Mary Crosby interview from the PBS documentary "Bing Crosby Rediscovered"(2014)
ok.ru/video/1771602053733
2020 Mary Crosby interview
ruclips.net/video/PHgYI2Cpf28/видео.html
Dinah Shore 1977 Bing Crosby tribute on her Christmas show
ruclips.net/video/gEgS8lPqgO0/видео.html
A look back with Rosemary Clooney (2000)
ruclips.net/video/1M3tJXmmIWs/видео.html
1979 Rosemary Clooney
ruclips.net/video/d_n8LcuqUTI/видео.html
1983 Rosemary Clooney on Sonya Friedman program
ruclips.net/video/5nXmSOLeBic/видео.html
undated interviews with Bob Hope and Donald O'Connor from the trailer to "Bing: The Truth Behind the Legend"
ruclips.net/video/DOPHVcfiog0/видео.html
Joan Caulfield interview
ruclips.net/video/4tFZ1mUn1X0/видео.html
Andy Williams interview from The Legendary Bing Crosby
ok.ru/video/87259417335
Interviews with Hal Kanter, Ret Turner, William Link, Mitzi Gaynor, Bob Markell, Skitch Henderson, Buz Cohan and Bob Finkel are from the Archive of American Television
interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews
Carolyn Schneider radio interview:
www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/bing-crosby/7728346
Gary Giddins:
at the Leon Levy Center for Biography: ruclips.net/video/RKsRkNDEmhU/видео.html
with Will Friedwald: ruclips.net/video/3NrT6BBf2N4/видео.html
Let It Roll Podcast interview: www.letitrollpodcast.com/main/bing-crosbys-swing-brought-him-superstardom
The written quotes are drawn from memoirs, biographies, tributes and radio reports:
Mel Torme, "My Singing Teachers"
Charles Thompson, "Bing: The authorized biography" (Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Riddle, Donald O'Connor, Sammy Davis Jr, Rhonda Fleming)
Count Basie, "Good Morning Blues"
James Cagney, "Cagney by Cagney"
Frank Capra, "The Name above the Title"
Gary Giddins, "Bing Crosby: Swinging On A Star; The War Years, 1940-1946" (Author interviews with Nanette Fabray, Phil Silvers, Donald Mills, Peggy Lee)
Gary Giddins, "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903-1940" (AI with Milt Hinton)
Lindsay Crosby was quoted in an unidentified 1959 magazine
Phillip Crosby interviewed by Neil Blincow for GLOBE, 1999
Phil Harris ruclips.net/video/CTZYPGcRmw8/видео.html
Danny Kaye ruclips.net/video/BZSl822hjuk/видео.html
Bob Hope, "Confessions of a Hooker"
Excerpt from letter from Jack Lucas to Eleanor Lucas, September 1944, as reproduced in Gary Giddins' "Swinging on a Star"
Mack Sennett, "King of Comedy"
Inger Stevens interviewed for The Crosby Post, October 1957
Peggy Lee, "Miss Peggy Lee-An Autobiography"
Frank Sinatra quoted in TIME, Monday, Oct. 24, 1977
James Van Heusen, "Bing Crosby, A Lifetime of Music"
Joan Fontaine, "No Bed of Roses"
Louis Armstrong interview for TIME, 1955
Letter from Louis Armstrong to an unknown recipient, c. 1967, Louis Armstrong House and Archives at Queens College/CUNY, reproduced in Giddins' "A Pocketful of Dreams"
Tony Bennett interviewed by George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, June 19, 1997/PBS interview 1999
David Lobosco quoted a passage from a letter from Rose Mancini to him in "The Human Side of Bing Crosby" dor BINGANG magazine, winter 2001
Anthony Quinn interview for documentary Remembering Bing (1987), transcript reproduced in Giddins' POD
Philip Furia, "Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer", quotes Johnny Mercer
Ken Barnes, "The Crosby Years"

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