Bing Crosby was the fourth of seven children of Tacoma, Washington, brewery bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby and Kate Harrigan Crosby. He studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in playing the drums and singing with a local band. Bing and the band's piano player, Al Rinker...See full bio »
2009Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
(TV documentary)
(performer: "The Waiter, the Porter and the Upstairs Maid", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", "Happy Feet", "Ol' Man River", "I'm an Old Cowhand", "That Old Black Magic")
2009Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
(video documentary)
(performer: "I Surrender Dear" - uncredited, "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" - uncredited, "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" - uncredited, "Just One More Chance" - uncredited, "Dream House" - uncredited, "For You" - uncredited, "After Sundown" - uncredited, "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines" - uncredited, "Once in a Blue Moon" - uncredited, "May I?" - uncredited, "Love Thy Neighbor" - uncredited, "Empty Saddles" - uncredited, "The Merry Go Runaround" - uncredited)
2009The Missing Person
(writer: "I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You")
2004The Polar Express
(performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus Right Down Santa Claus Lane", "White Christmas")
2004The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
(writer: "Where the Blue of the Night" / performer: "Where the Blue of the Night")
2004Fahrenheit 9/11
(documentary)
(performer: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" 1934)
2004Rosemary Clooney: Singing at Her Best
(video short)
(performer: "Don't Fence Me In", "I'm an Old Cowhand", "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain When She Comes", "The Crawdad Song", "San Antonio Rose", "Down in the Valley", "On Top of Old Smokey", "You Are My Sunshine")
1975Brother Can You Spare a Dime
(documentary)
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 / as Crosby / performer: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1931, "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931)
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Episode #6.13
(1969)
(performer: "Okolona River Bottom Band", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening")
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Episode #5.28
(1968)
(performer: "Talk To The Animals")
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Episode #3.33
(1966)
(lyrics: "From Monday On" - uncredited / performer: "One of Those Songs" - uncredited, "From Monday On" - uncredited, "Three Little Words" - uncredited, "Witchcraft" - uncredited, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - uncredited, "A Shine on Your Shoes" - uncredited, "Three O'Clock in the Morning" - uncredited, "Yes! We Have No Bananas" - uncredited, "Lazy River" - uncredited, "Mañana Is Soon Enough for Me" - uncredited, "Winter Wonderland" - uncredited, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - uncredited, "Love Me or Leave Me" - uncredited, "Russian Lullaby" - uncredited, "Manhattan" - uncredited, "The Night They Invented Champagne" - uncredited, "Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" - uncredited, "Miss America" - uncredited, "What a Difference a Day Makes" - uncredited, "New York, New York" - uncredited, "Margie" - uncredited, "Diga Diga Doo" - uncredited, "Something's Gotta Give" - uncredited, "Young at Heart" - uncredited, "You Make Me Feel So Young" - uncredited)
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Episode dated 19 October 1967
(1967)
(performer: "Give Me the Simple Life" - uncredited, "There Will Never Be Another You" - uncredited, "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - uncredited, "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" - uncredited, "I Want to Be Happy" - uncredited, "Together" - uncredited)
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Episode #7.6
(1963)
(performer: "In a Little Spanish Town" - uncredited, "You'll Never Get Away" - uncredited, "Buddies" - uncredited, "Let the Rest of the World Go By" - uncredited, "'S Wonderful" - uncredited, "South Rampart Street Parade" - uncredited)
1962The Road to Hong Kong
(performer: "Teamwork", "The Road to Hong Kong", "Let's Not Be Sensible")
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" - uncredited / performer: "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited, "True Love" - uncredited, "Mexicali Rose" - uncredited, "I Love Paris" - uncredited, "Sweet Leilani" - uncredited, "The Whiffenpoof Song" - uncredited, "September Song" - uncredited, "There's a Long, Long Trail" - uncredited, " We're Off on the Road to Morocco" - uncredited, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - uncredited, "South of the Border" - uncredited, "Paris in the Spring" - uncredited, "Collegiate" - uncredited, "Goody Goody" - uncredited, "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" - uncredited, "Nature Boy" - uncredited, "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" - uncredited, "Swinging on a Star" - uncredited, "Small Fry" - uncredited, "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain If I Knew I'd Find You" - uncredited, "It's Been a Long, Long Time" - uncredited, "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" - uncredited, "Please" - uncredited, "You Go to My Head" - uncredited, "Jealousy" - uncredited, "Hound Dog" - uncredited, "My Blue Heaven" - uncredited, "Sunday, Monday or Always" - uncredited, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" - uncredited, "Ma Blushin' Rosie" - uncredited, "Side by Side" - uncredited)
1956High Society
(performer: "Little One" - uncredited, "True Love" - uncredited, "I Love You Samantha" - uncredited, "Well, Did You Evah" - uncredited, "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited)
1956Anything Goes
(performer: "Ya Gotta Give The People Hoke", "You're The Top", "All Through The Night", "A Second Hand Turban And A Crystal Ball", "Blow Gabriel Blow")
1954The Country Girl
(performer: "Dissertation on the State of Bliss Love and Learn Blues", "The Pitchman / It's Mine, It's Yours", "The Land Around Us", "The Search Is Through")
1954White Christmas
(performer: "White Christmas", "The Old Man", "Hi Hup", "Heat Wave", "Blue Skies", "Snow", "Minstrel Show", "Mandy", "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep", "What Can You Do With a General?", "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army" / "White Christmas", "Sisters")
1954Rear Window
(performer: "To See You Is to Love You" 1952 - uncredited)
1954The Bing Crosby Show
(TV movie)
(performer: "Y'all Come" - uncredited, "It Had to Be You" - uncredited, "Change Partners" - uncredited, "I Love Paris" - uncredited)
1952Road to Bali
(performer: "CHICAGO STYLE", "HOOT MON", "TO SEE YOU", "THE MERRY GO RUNAROUND", "The Whiffenpoof Song" - uncredited)
1952Just for You
(performer: "Call Me Tonight", "A Flight of Fancy", "I'll Si-Si Ya in Bahia", "Just for You", "The Live Oak Tree", "The Ol' Spring Fever", "On the 10:10 From Ten-Ten-Tennessee", "Zing a Little Zong" / "The Ol' Spring Fever")
1951Here Comes the Groom
(performer: "MISTO CRISTOFO COLUMBO", "BONNE NUIT -- GOODNIGHT", "YOUR OWN LITTLE HOUSE", "IN THE COOL, COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING")
1950Riding High
(performer: "We've Got a Sure Thing" 1950 - uncredited, "Someplace on Anywhere Road" 1950 - uncredited, "Sunshine Cake" 1950 - uncredited, "The Horse Told Me" 1950 - uncredited, "De Camptown Races" 1850 - uncredited, "The Whiffenpoof Song" 1909 - uncredited)
1950Mr. Music
(performer: "Accidents Will Happen", "And You'll Be Home", "Life Is So Peculiar")
1949The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
(performer: "Ichabod" 1949 - uncredited, "Katrina" 1949 - uncredited, "The Headless Horseman" 1949 - uncredited)
1949Top o' the Morning
(performer: "TOP O' THE MORNING", "WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING" - uncredited, "MY BEAUTIFUL KITTY" - uncredited, "THE DONOVANS" - uncredited, "YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE", "OH, 'TIS SWEET TO THINK" - uncredited)
1949Down Memory Lane
(performer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Daughter of Peggy O'Neill", "Little Bit of Heaven", "One More Chance", "I Surrender Dear")
1947The Road to Hollywood
(performer: "I Surrender Dear", "One More Chance", "Dear, I Love You", "I Surrender Dear Reprise #1", "Out Of Nowhere", "I Surrender Dear Reprise #2", "One More Chance Reprise")
1947Welcome Stranger
(performer: "SMILE RIGHT BACK AT THE SUN", "COUNTRY STYLE", "MY HEART IS A HOBO", "AS LONG AS I'M DREAMING")
1947Abusement Park
(short)
("Love in Bloom" 1934 - uncredited)
1946Road to Utopia
(lyrics: "Good Time Charlie" 1946 / performer: "Put It There, Pal" 1946, "It's Anybody's Spring" 1946, "Sunday, Monday or Always" 1943, "Welcome to My Dream" 1946 / "Welcome to My Dream" 1946)
1946Blue Skies
(performer: "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now", "All by Myself", "I'll See You in C-U-B-A", "A Couple of Song and Dance Men", "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song", "Blue Skies", "The Little Things in Life", "Not for All the Rice in China", "Russian Lullaby", "Everybody Step", "How Deep Is the Ocean?", " Running Around in Circles Getting Nowhere", "Any Bonds Today?", "This Is the Army, Mister Jones", "White Christmas")
1944Going My Way
(performer: "Swinging on a Star" 1944, "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral That's an Irish Lullaby" 1914 - uncredited, "The Day After Forever" 1944, "Going My Way" 1944, "Silent Night, Holy Night" 1818 - uncredited, "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825 - uncredited, "Hail Alma Mater" 1944 - uncredited)
1944Here Come the Waves
(performer: "That Old Black Magic" - uncredited, "Let's Take the Long Way Home" - uncredited, "Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive" - uncredited, "I Promise You" - uncredited)
1944The Shining Future
(short)
(performer: "Get On The Road to Victory")
1943They Got Me Covered
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited / performer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited)
1942Road to Morocco
(performer: " We're Off on the Road to Morocco" 1942, "Ain't Got a Dime to My Name Ho Hum" 1942, "Moonlight Becomes You" 1942 / "Moonlight Becomes You" 1942)
1942Holiday Inn
(performer: "I'll Capture Your Heart Singing" 1942, "Lazy" 1924, "White Christmas" 1942, "Happy Holiday" 1942, "Come To Holiday Inn" 1942, "Let's Start the New Year Right" 1942, "Abraham" 1942, "Be Careful, It's My Heart" 1942, "Easter Parade" 1933, "Song of Freedom" 1942, "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For" 1942 / "White Christmas" 1942)
1941Birth of the Blues
(performer: "The Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "Memphis Blues" - uncredited, "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" - uncredited, "Tiger Rag" - uncredited, "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" - uncredited, "My Melancholy Baby" - uncredited, "The Waiter, and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid", "St. James Infirmary" - uncredited)
1941Road to Zanzibar
(performer: "ROAD TO ZANZIBAR", "YOU LUCKY PEOPLE, YOU", "AFRICAN ETUDE", "IT'S ALWAYS YOU" / "ROCKABYE BABY")
1940Rhythm on the River
(performer: "Only Forever" - uncredited, "Rhythm on the River" - uncredited, "When the Moon Comes Over Madison Square Garden" - uncredited, "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" - uncredited)
1940If I Had My Way
(performer: "April Played the Fiddle" - uncredited, "I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire", "Meet The Sun Halfway", "The Pessimistic Character With The Crab Apple Face", "If I Had My Way", "Meet The Sun Halfway" reprise)
1939The Star Maker
(performer: "Jimmy Valentine", "If I Was a Millionaire", "Go Fly a Kite", "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now", "In My Merry Oldsmobile", "An Apple for the Teacher", "Still the Bluebird Sings" / "A Man and His Dreams")
1939East Side of Heaven
(performer: "East Side of Heaven", "Hang You Heart on a Hickory Limb", "Sing a Song of Sunbeams")
1939Paris Honeymoon
(performer: "The Funny Old Hills", "You're a Sweet Little Headache", "Joobalai")
1938Sing, You Sinners
(performer: "DON'T LET THAT MOON GET AWAY", "I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS", "LAUGH AND CALL IT LOVE", "SMALL FRY" / "I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS")
1938Dr. Rhythm
(performer: "On the Sentimental Side", "My Heart Is Taking Lessons")
1937Double or Nothing
(performer: " You Know It All Smarty" - uncredited, "The Moon Got in My Eyes" - uncredited, "It's the Natural Thing to Do" - uncredited)
1937Waikiki Wedding
(performer: "Sweet is the Word for You", "Sweet Leilani", "Blue Hawaii", "Nani Ona Pua" / "Blue Hawaii")
1936Pennies from Heaven
(performer: "Pennies From Heaven" 1936, "So Do I" 1936, "One Two Button Your Shoe" 1936, "Let's Call a Heart a Heart" 1936, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" - uncredited)
1936Rhythm on the Range
(performer: "I'm an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande" - uncredited, "I Can't Escape from You" - uncredited, "Empty Saddles" - uncredited, "Roundup Lullaby" - uncredited, "Drink It Down" - uncredited)
1936Anything Goes
(performer: "Sailor Beware", "Moonburn", "My Heart and I", "You're the Top" with new lyrics, "Shanghai-Dee-Ho")
1936Strike Me Pink
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited)
1935Mississippi
(performer: "It's Easy to Remember And So Hard to Forget" 1935 - uncredited, "Soon" 1935 - uncredited, "Down by the River" 1935 - uncredited, "Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851 - uncredited)
1935Two for Tonight
(performer: "It Takes Two To Make a Bargain", "Without a Word of Warning", "From the Top of Your Head To the Tip of Your Toes")
1935Folies Bergère de Paris
(lyrics: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" 1932 - uncredited)
1934We're Not Dressing
(performer: "Sailor's Chanty It's a Lie" 1934 - uncredited, "I Positively Refuse to Sing" 1934 - uncredited, "Stormy Weather" 1933 - uncredited, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" 1933 - uncredited, "The Last Round-Up Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along" 1933 - uncredited, "May I?" 1934 - uncredited, "Goodnight Lovely Little Lady" 1934 - uncredited, "She Reminds Me of You" 1934 - uncredited, "Love Thy Neighbor" 1934 - uncredited, "Once in a Blue Moon" 1934 - uncredited)
1934Here Is My Heart
(performer: "June in January", "With Every Breath I Take", "Love Is Just Around the Corner")
1934She Loves Me Not
(performer: "STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER", "I'M HUMMIN', I'M WHISTLIN', I'M SINGIN'", "LOVE IN BLOOM", "AFTER ALL, YOU'RE ALL I'M AFTER")
1934The Big Idea
(short)
(writer: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931)
1934Twenty Million Sweethearts
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited)
1933Going Hollywood
(performer: "Going Hollywood" 1933, "Our Big Love Scene" 1933, "Beautiful Girl" 1933, "Just an Echo in the Valley" - uncredited, "We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines" 1933, "After Sundown" 1933, "Temptation" 1933)
1933Too Much Harmony
(performer: "Thanks", "The Day You Came Along", "Boo-boo-boo", "Buckin' the Wind")
1933College Humor
(performer: "Down the Old Ox Road", "Learn to Croon", "Moon Struck")
1933Sing, Bing, Sing
(short)
(performer: "In My Hide-Away", "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", "Lovable", "Snuggled on Your Shoulder Cuddled in Your Arms")
1933Blue of the Night
(short)
(performer: "My Silent Love" - uncredited, "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" - uncredited, "Ev'ry Time My Heart Beats" - uncredited, "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" - uncredited)
1932The Big Broadcast
(performer: "Please", "Here Lies Love", "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day")
1932Crooner
(writer: "You're Just a Beautiful Melody of Love" - uncredited)
1932Billboard Girl
(short)
(performer: "For You" - uncredited)
1932Dream House
(short)
(performer: "When I Take My Sugar to Tea", "It Must Be True", "Dream House")
1932Wild People
(short)
(lyrics: "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 1931 - uncredited)
1931One More Chance
(short)
(performer: "One More Chance", "Wrap your Trouble in Dreams")
1931I Surrender Dear
(short)
(lyrics: "AT YOUR COMMAND" / performer: "I SURRENDER DEAR", "OUT OF NOWHERE", "AT YOUR COMMAND", "A Little Bit of Heaven Shure They Call It Ireland")
[on John Boles singing his solo in
King of Jazz] I have often wondered what might have happened to me if I had sung "The Song of the Dawn". It certainly helped Boles - on the strength of it, he got a lot of pictures. I must say, he had a bigger voice and a better delivery for that kind of song than I had...
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One of his early inspirations was Louis Armstrong, who returned the admiration. Louis once described Bing's mellow voice as "like gold being poured out of a cup."
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