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 ..

The fair was visited by many of the most notable people of the day including Queen Elizabeth II, Lyndon Johnson, Princess Grace, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie, Charles de Gaulle, Bing Crosby, Harry Belafonte, Maurice Chevalier, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Marlene Dietrich.

The most recently drawn is taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, on ' The Power of Networks '.

Bing uses the or directive which is the most specific.

They recorded 47 songs with crooner Bing Crosby, 23 of which charted on Billboard, thus making the team one of the most successful pairings of acts in a recording studio in show business history.

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

Statues of St. Ignatius, St. Joseph, and St. Aloysius are among the most notable religious landmarks on campus, and there is also a statue of Bing Crosby.

Succeeding Johnson in 1950 was the Austrian-born Rudolf Bing who had most recently created and served as director of the Edinburgh Festival.

Serving from 1950 to 1972, Bing became one of the Met's most influential and reformist leaders.

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

During the gallery's most successful period, 1896 – 1902, Bing vended a great variety of artistic work, included fabrics designed by William Morris, glassware by Louis Comfort Tiffany, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, stained glass, and furniture of Art Nouveau style.

In his 1994 book " My Singing Teachers ," Torme cited Patty Andrews, lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, the most successful show business act of the 1940s ( second only to Bing Crosby ), as one of his favorite vocalists, saying, " They had more hit records to their credit than you could count, and one of the main reasons for their popularity was Patty Andrews.

By his own reckoning, Parkinson interviewed over 2000 of the world's most famous people, including: Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, George Best, Bob Hope, Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Liberace, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, Racquel Welch, Oliver Reed,

Two of popular music's most successful artists died within six weeks of each other in 1977: Elvis Presley ( on August 16 ) and Bing Crosby ( on October 14 ).

While at Capitol, Riddle continued his successful film arranging career, most notably with MGM's Conrad Salinger on the first onscreen duet between Bing Crosby and Sinatra in High Society ( 1956 ), and the 1957 film version of Pal Joey directed by George Sidney for Columbia Pictures.

Bing Crosby and Greer Garson were frequently named the most popular film stars during the 1940s and later winners of the title included James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Alan Ladd, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, and Kim Novak.

Perhaps the most impressive addition of the modernization project is the Bing Performing Arts Center which features a two-level 800-seat theater, a suite of practice rooms, a few large classrooms for band, orchestra, and choir classes, a black box theater, a dance studio, and a room filled with electric pianos for the purpose of composing electronic music.

Luro basked in the publicity surrounding his racing success, associating with the rich and famous including Hollywood stars such as Bing Crosby while his dashing personality and good looks saw him dating some of society's most glamorous women.

He is best known for " Pistol Packin ' Mama ," a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and later became a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters.

Silvio's day-to-day role is that of managing the Bada Bing, the most recent in a string of strip clubs that he has operated.

Although Carl Switzer was an experienced singer and musician, his character Alfalfa was often called upon to sing off-key renditions of pop standards and contemporary hits, most often those of Bing Crosby.

* Dick Farrelly Songwriter most famous for his song, The " Isle of Innisfree ", 1952 hit for Bing Crosby and theme of the film, " The Quiet Man ".

Of the various identifications of Erlang Shen the most common is as Li Erlang, the second son of Li Bing, the engineer behind the Dujiangyan Irrigation System.