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 ..

His " Sunnylands " winter estate in Rancho Mirage, California ( near Palm Springs ) hosted gatherings with such people as President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The auditorium he built for the church hosted, at highly subsidized ticket prices, hundreds of performances by noted artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Vladimir Horowitz, Bing Crosby, Marcel Marceau, and Bob Hope.

For decades, the hotel's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub hosted well-known entertainers, such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Liza Minnelli, Martin and Lewis, The Supremes, Merv Griffin, Dorothy Dandridge, Vikki Carr, Evelyn Knight, Vivian Vance, Dick Haymes, Sergio Franchi, Perry Como, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Sammy Davis Jr., Little Richard, Liberace, Natalie Cole, and Richard Pryor.

In 1937, Bing Crosby hosted the first National Pro-Am Golf Championship at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, the event's location prior to World War II.

The various segments were hosted by a succession of the studio's legendary stars: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Donald O ' Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Bing Crosby, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, and Liza Minnelli ( representing her mother, Judy Garland ).

* Bing Crosby hosted the Christmas Disney Time on Boxing Day.

The Olympic Club hosted the 2004 U. S. Junior Amateur ( won by Sihwan Kim ) and the U. S. Amateur in 1958 ( won by Charles Coe ) and 1981 ( won by Nathaniel Crosby, son of Bing Crosby ).

* November 30 – Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, airs on CBS.

The Baopingkou or Bottle-Neck Channel, which Li Bing gouged through the mountain, is the final part of the system.

In Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, taped for CBS in England just a few weeks before Crosby's death in 1977, Baxter played multiple roles, including a butler, cook, Charles Dickens and-in one skit opposite a cracking-up Crosby-the ghost of Bob Hope's court jester ancestor.

* 1977: One of the more popular versions of the song was recorded for Bing Crosby's final holiday television special ( Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas ) as a medley titled " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", which was a duet by the unusual pairing of Crosby and David Bowie.

His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, first sung by co-writer Gene Austin and later by Jules Bledsoe ( dubbing Stepin Fetchit ) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of " Show Boat ", and recorded by more than two hundred artists, including Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Paul Robeson.

Two days later, in what was to be the final game of the Series, Haas hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the score, 2 – 2, as the Athletics later won the game on Bing Miller's RBI-double.

* Bing: Bing is an annoying chameleon-gecko who hangs around Norbert and Daggett, introduced in episode The Bing That Wouldn't Leave.

* Don Morello is voiced by John Doman, who played a patron of the Bada Bing club ( billed as " District Attorney ") in the episode " Full Leather Jacket " of The Sopranos.

The Standells played the part of the fictional rock group the " Love Bugs " on the television sitcom Bing Crosby Show in the episode " Bugged by the Love Bugs ".

Harris was also a close friend and associate of Bing Crosby and appeared in an episode of ABC's short-lived The Bing Crosby Show sitcom.

In an episode of Friends, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ) mocked the ubiquitous NBC commercials that popularized the phrase (" A very special Blossom "); Perry himself appeared in " a very special episode " of Growing Pains earlier in his career, playing Carol Seaver's teenage boyfriend who dies of injuries sustained in a car accident after a night of underage drinking.

: Caroline makes a cameo on the Friends episode, " The One with the Baby on the Bus "— where she thinks that Joey Tribbiani and Chandler Bing — who are with Ross Geller's son, Ben — are lovers.

Sir Oliver's entering line, which he used in almost every episode when he would call his pawnbroker Bing to sell him some stolen goods, " Hello, Bing, how's the brother?

Stephanie performs " Bing Bang " at the end of each episode.

In one episode, she explains that she was named " Christmas " because her father was a big fan of Bing Crosby.

Goff and Lauck also guest starred as Lum and Abner on radio series such as Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall ; Goff also made a handful of solo appearances, notably guesting as the father of Andy Devine in an episode of The Jack Benny Program.

The film and its plot are mentioned in the Friends episode, " The One with Rachel's Big Kiss ," the character of Chandler Bing describes it as " a tutti-frutti love story where he ( Val Kilmer ) played a blind guy.

Series creator Seth MacFarlane conceived the idea for this episode, and was inspired by the 1940s Road to ... series of comedy films which starred Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.