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...freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose of "symphonic" dross...
Boston-born and educated, "Bing" Bingham was a promising freshman at Harvard when he spent a summer vacation working for Macy's in Manhattan. He sold a balky woman customer six pairs of shoes the first day there, was immediately rewarded with the offer of a spot on Macy's "training squad." Bing found the offer so alluring he never went back to college. Within a year, he was head of the store's Varsity Shop. At 22, the ex-shoe clerk became a full-fledged buyer, and at 32, a vice president...
...Bailey once admitted that "I couldn't sing big if I wanted to." But if her voice was one of the smallest around, it was also the sweetest and the sighing-est; and she had a natural rhythm to her phrasing that made her (with the Rhythm Boys-Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and her brother Al Rinker) one of the idols of the early '30s. Since those days, many of Mildred's old records have become collectors' items...
...Rudolf Bing "For he I sing...
...Washington, the President signed a special bill granting permanent U.S. residence to Vienna-born Rudolf Bing, $35,000-a-year manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and his Moscow-born wife Nina, naturalized British citizens who have been living in the U.S. on temporary visas since...