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...Bing Crosby earned the love and respect of his family and friends, rose above the seductions of material success and left a lasting and positive impact on three generations while remaining the rarest of blessings: a man of substance with few, if any, enemies...
...captivating and enduring strength of Bing Crosby's music has as its source not only the dignity and relaxed richness of his voice but the honesty and kindness one sensed in the man himself...
Detroit led 26-23 at the end of one before Boston got temporarily aggressive and, thanks mainly to the shooting of Boswell and the passing of ex-Piston Dave Bing, turned the tables for its halftime advantage...
...effect was just what the Crosby sound needed. In earlier work he sang with much jazzier effects. An artist in search of a personal style, he listened hard to Al Jolson, Mildred Bailey and Louis Armstrong. Finally Bing developed that mellifluous tone, a mere phrase of which causes millions of Americans to imagine the gold of the day meeting the blue of the night. Here was the voice that has sold more records than any other on earth save that of Elvis...
There was also the voice, suddenly made famous on radio, that inspired Hollywood to cast Crosby in the feature picture (Paramount's The Big Broadcast) that was to launch the flip side of Bing's career. In the movies as onstage, Crosby seemed always to come on singing happy, upbeat, don't-worry songs that the trouble-weary public loved during the Depression. He scored successes in such movies as Pennies from Heaven and Waikiki Wedding, but it was as the lazy, goodhearted ne'er-do-well in Sing You Sinners, in 1938, that he found...