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...juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation's juke-box favorites...
...lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax. Within a few months record buyers were clamoring for Decca's later Bing Crosby version. Shrewd David Kapp barged wholesale into the hillbilly field, boomed local hits into national smashes by giving them successive recordings by bigger & bigger names. Thus, Crosby became the most popular singer of hillbilly as well as other popular music...
...Bruce Zeiser '45 is to serve as Circulation Manager and E. Thomas Binger '46 as Photography Editor. Rounding out the Executive Committee will be Fred W. Richmond '46 as Advertising Manager and Daniel S. Paul '46, Activities Editor. Lawrence G. Raisz '46 will be Houses Editor and Allen J. Bing '47 Sports Editor...
Hope carves up his movie scripts too-and if Bing Crosby is also in the picture, they go in for downright slaughter. To one scripter who turned up on the set of Road to Singapore, Hope hollered: "If you hear any of your dialogue, yell Bingo...
...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...