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...first of Bing Crosby's $30,000-a-week transcribed series for Philco-with Bob Hope as guest star-was waxed last week, but ran two minutes overtime. Producer Bill Morrow put it up to Philco: whose lines should he cut-Crosby's or Hope's? Philcomen went into a huddle, came out with a decision for audiences to applaud: "Cut the commercial...
...newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
Crosby's Conversion. Ever since swing began, show business tipsters (and press-agents for sweet bands) had predicted its death with monotonous regularity, but none of the swingsters had paid attention before. Now the No. 1 exponent of pseudo-Dixieland, Bob Crosby (brother of Bing) was packing them in at a Broadway theater with a toned-down band that went easier on the drums and the brass. Crosby late of the U.S. Marines, learned his lesson when leading a service band on Bougainville. He expected the Marines to demand music with hair on its chest. Says he: "They wanted...
Hottest program news of all: after many a song & dance about it, Bing Crosby had decided to sign with Philco. Last week he sent them his terms, probably the steepest in radio history: 1) $35,000 for a weekly half-hour program; 2) the right to transcribe some shows. The reason: he might want to be somewhere else at broadcast time,* could record the program in advance...
...other news of Bing, see SPORT...