Bing Crosby News

An interlude of romance and remembrance is about to unfold, courtesy of 17 singers and 18 songs.

A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS D: Todd Strauss-Schulson, w/ John Cho, Kal Penn.

Undated -- On February seventh, 1944, Bing Crosby and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded "Swinging on a Star" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.

Resting horizontally atop a row of tomes about Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Bing Crosby and other figures associated with the so-called Great American Songbook on a tightly packed bookshelf in Paula West's Nob Hill apartment is a short stack about Bob Dylan.

That's right. I have only lived in the States for about two years, from 1977 to 1980.

In "How I Got This Way," Regis Philbin turns back the clock and recalls the inspiration that set him on his path to entertainment stardom.

Just one week after May 2, the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America's greatest pop singers, the late Bing Crosby, it is appropriate to take note of two of the finest female pop-jazz vocalists-Peggy Lee and Rosemary Clooney.