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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (; May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark warm bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist of all time, having sold over one billion analog records and tapes, as well as digital compact discs and downloads around the world.
The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone. This allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine said that he was the person who had done the most for American soldiers' morale during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O'Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary's opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording.
Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of an early Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder he placed a large order for their equipment and convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
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Albums
White Christmas Single
A Southern Memoir
Bing & Satchmo
El Rancho Grande
Christmas With Bing
Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy Single
Do You Hear What I Hear? Single
Never Be Afraid Single
Bing & Louis
True Love / Well Did You Evah? Single
Silver Bells / That Christmas Feeling Single
I Wonder What's Become of Sally Single
La Vie En Rose Single
Play A Simple Melody / Sam's Song Single
Christmas Greetings
Don't Fence Me In / The Three Caballeros Single
Pistol Packin’ Mama / Vict’ry Polka Single
I'll Be Home for Christmas / Danny Boy Single
Merry Christmas
Anniversary Waltz / Yours Is My Heart Alone Single
Yours Is My Heart Alone / Beautiful Dreamer Single
Basin Street Blues / Bob White Single
Sweet Leilani Single
Let’s Call a Heart a Heart / Pennies from Heaven Single
It's Easy to Remember / Swanee River Single
Temptation / We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines Single
If You Should Ever Need Me / Out of Nowhere Single
Dancing in the Dark / Stardust Single
Just A Gigolo Single
Popular Songs
- She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia
- Carolina In The Morning
- Sleepy Time Down South
- South Texas Quail Hunting Medley
- Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay
- Cryin' for the Carolines
- Stars Fell On Alabama
- Where The Morning Glories Grow
- I Wonder What's Become of Sally
- Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
- Just A Gigolo
- Rocky Mountain Blues
- Muscrat Ramble
- Christmas Medley
- The Teddy Bears' Picnic
- True Love
- Bing Crosby
- Mr. Santa Claus
- A Handful of Stars
- A House with Love in It
- Santa Clause is Coming to Town
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Mary Kate’s Lament
- Take Me Back to Toyland
- The Big Fight
- My Mother
- Danaher’s House
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
- We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines
- All the Things You Are