Bing Crosby News

J. Giessner checks in with a follow up to last week's quiz wherein I asked for the middle names of Bing Crosby.

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress . She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me " , " Mambo Italiano ", " Tenderly ", " Half as Much ", " Hey There " and " This Ole House ... (more)

Genre: Musical Comedy Directed by: A. Edward Sutherland Starring: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Queenie Smith, Claude Gillingwater Mississippi offers us Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, four Rodgers and Hart songs, and that shimmering lustre that only Paramount Pictures in the 1930s could produce.

The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall commemorates an important date in history on Sunday -- 75 years ago, from May 20 to May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, from New York to Paris.

More than a dozen years ago, jazz critic Gary Giddins made an appointment with his editor at the publisher William Morrow.

The Sound of Tennessee Chorus will present its annual Show of Champions on Saturday, May 19, at 7 p.m. in the Conn Center at Lee University.

Bing Crosby was the fourth of seven children of Tacoma, Washington, brewery bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby and Kate Harrigan Crosby.

Things turn out to be a little more ramshackle than expected, but everyone learns valuable lessons, which often happens in movie hotels.

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