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To Sing Like Bing

December 30th, 2007 by Steve Bowbrick

Bing Crosby, from the Wikimedia Commons

Don't worry, this is not a Radio 2 takeover. This, in fact, is a brilliant slice of musical history. Alyn Shipton's two-parter is a fascinating and surprising account of Bing Crosby's influence on pop music, on singing and on the music business itself (part one, part two).

Pic from the Wikimedia Commons.

Presenter: Alyn Shipton
Producer: Paul Evans
Listen: [MP3] [Real]

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4 Responses to “To Sing Like Bing”

  1. bobbie Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Beat me to it! I love the Artie Shaw quote that Bing was “the first hip white guy in America” because it’s so at odds with how we think of him these days.

  2. russell Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Beat me too. I’ve just loaded it up to S3.

  3. russell Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    And, should you be interested, I have rather a large Bing collection. Always been a fan. Much cooler than Frank.

  4. steve Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    And they’ve got another series of five docs about Bing on Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_crosbytrail.shtml

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