He had sold oil stock to Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in person ; ;

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

Capra directed two films at Paramount Pictures starring Bing Crosby, Riding High ( 1950 ) and Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

The best known song to come out of the series was " Four Feather Falls ", sung in some episodes by Michael Holliday in the style of Bing Crosby.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

Operation Petticoat proved to be a breakout role for MacLeod, and he was soon cast in another Edwards comedy, High Time, with Bing Crosby.

* Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, based on technology found in Germany after the war, helped musical artists such as Bing Crosby make and distribute recordings with better fidelity.

Team co-owner Bing Crosby recorded a song, " Goodbye, Mr. Ball, Goodbye " with Groucho Marx and Greenberg to celebrate Greenberg's arrival.

Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.

According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

However, Sennett enjoyed great success with short comedies starring Bing Crosby ; these films were probably instrumental in Sennett's product being picked up by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.

Rumors abounded that Sennett would be returning to film production ( a 1938 publicity release indicated that he would be working with Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy ), but apart from Sennett reissuing a couple of his Bing Crosby two-reelers to theaters, nothing happened.

* 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor ( The Rhythm Boys ) ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's " White Christmas ", the best-selling Christmas single in history.

Jack Mullin ( working for Bing Crosby ) and the BBC both created crude working systems that involved moving the tape across a fixed tape head at very fast speeds.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

* The company owns the film libraries of Rysher Entertainment and Bing Crosby Productions ( which had been merged with Rysher in the 1990s ) – such titles include Walking Tall and the international rights to It Takes Two ;

* 1954 Selections from Irving Berlin's ' White Christmas ' ( w / Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye )

One biographer describes his early dance band infiltration: " He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught ".

* 1975: Bing Crosby, at the age of 71, recorded it for his album That's What Life Is All About.

He later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, " I wasn't thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby.

He took the name of Victor Borge, and, in 1941, he started on Rudy Vallee's radio show, but was hired soon after by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall.

The music in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra which was based on The Philadelphia Story.

Other notable recordings were with Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, and Sarah Vaughan.

The Dave Bing and Bob Lanier era did have some solid and exciting years but they were handicapped by being in the same division as the Milwaukee Bucks which had a young Lew Alcindor and the Chicago Bulls which had some very strong players.

Hollywood stars and foreign dignitaries were attracted to the Stampede ; Bob Hope and Bing Crosby each served as parade marshals during the 1950s, while Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made their first of two visits to the event as part of their 1959 tour of Canada.

Double-0 scale model railways were launched by Bing in 1921 as ' The Table Railway ', running on track and scaled at 4mm to the foot.

Along with Bing Crosby, separately and jointly, The Andrews Sisters were among the performers who incorporated ethnic music styles into America's Hit Parade, popularizing or enhancing the popularity of songs with melodies originating in Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Trinidad, many of which their manager chose for them.

Best selling artists during that time were Bing Crosby, The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Abe Lyman, Casa Loma Orchestra, Leo Reisman, Ben Bernie, and Anson Weeks.

The smooth-toned ribbon microphones developed by the RCA company in the 1930s were crucial to the ' crooning ' style perfected by Bing Crosby, and the famous Neumann U47 condenser microphone was one of the most widely used from the 1950s.

Its most successful imports were the recordings of Bing Crosby.

Among many, the list included Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and his orchestra, Bob Hope, Liza Minnelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frankie Laine, and Johnnie Ray, freezing out British stars of the day, who were relegated to second-billing.

Following Lü Bu, Zhang Liao and other Bing Province warriors wandered the land, and finally were given a chance to gain a foothold.

Asked by general manager Bing Devine on July 26 what his plans were, Musial decided to retire at season's end.

During the mid-1930s, such songs as " Blue Moon ", " Easy to Love ", " I've Got You Under My Skin ", and " My Melancholy Baby " were sizable American successes — so much so that Bowlly gained his own radio series on NBC and traveled to Hollywood to co-star in 1936 with Bing Crosby, one of his biggest competitors, in The Big Broadcast.

Among Dudley's most famous students were President Dwight Eisenhower, singer Bing Crosby, and comedian Bob Hope.

Bing and several others, in addition to Zhang He's adopted son, were created marquesses.

Many other artists were introduced to Page's style and incorporated the same country arrangement into many of their songs, including The Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby, who together had a No. 1 hit on the country charts in the late 1940s with " Pistol Packin ' Mama.

On the Märklin version, however, the rails were fixed to the tin ' ballast ' as in the prototype, whilst the Bing tracks were simply stamped into the ballast, so that track and ballast were made of single sheet of metal.

Bing Crosby, Joe E. Brown, Al Jolson, and Harry Warner were all stockholders.

These developments were widely spread during the ensuing Warring States Period ( 403-221 BC ), culminating in the enormous Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System engineered by Li Bing by 256 BC for the State of Qin in ancient Sichuan.

His songs were recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland ( who ended up dying only one month after McHugh's ), Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Dinah Washington, June Christy, Peggy Lee, Deanna Durbin, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Boyd's other single recordings were " Keep Your Hands Off My Baby ", " Some Kinda Wonderful ", " Let's Turkey Trot " and a remake of the Bing Crosby standard " Swinging on a Star ," recorded with Big Dee Irwin ( though Boyd was not credited on the label ).