He was not a very nice person towards his children. Ole Bing put a clause in his will where his boys couldn't touch his money until they were 65, and both died before reaching that age.
@@robertmann1194Oh my maybe because they had received a lot of money each upon turning 21. That Bing turned over his portion from Dixie's will to the sons and added to it. Maybe because money was invested which gave the boys an ongoing income even long after Bing had passed. Or could it be the boys weren't exactly great with money...so Bing had money to look after them later on upon them turning 65. Maybe read the things Bing was accused of that have been debunked...starting with his sons infamous book. Four boys from his first marriage that received the huge trust funds, one daughter and two sons from his second marriage that adored their father.
Yeah, but he left his wife to die in agony from cancer because he was the only person in his life who mattered and she was no longer of use to him. Oh! And he also used to regularly beat the living shit out of his children, on several occasions to the point that they needed to go to hospital, usually just because he'd had a bad day and needed to inflict it on someone else. An evil man.
Many of them went through high school and were in college and of course had Better Education than us take a look at the history books don’t hardly have WW2 in them at least they didn’t in early 70s .🙄
Bing always prided himself on having a very good vocabulary, as this interview ably demonstrates. If you listen to some of his live performances, he never misses the chance to speak eloquently. It became part of his schtick. Man, I still love this guy!
Apart from anything else, the Hollywood legends had good stories to tell bc many of them had interesting lives before stardom unlike the pampered celebs today.
Carson rarely let his guests finish anything; he was always interupting giving a never ending running commentary which Jerry Lewis took him up on. Carosn tried, like any egoist, to make everything about him!
Bing understood how the voice was a musical instrument and never over powered other instruments. He just appreciated phrasing and his musical humility comes through in his recordings.
I don't care how talented you are. How creative you are. What you've done or accomplished. If you treat your family & "loved" ones like garbage or worse, you're a failure.
@@JRobbySh I agree with you, and I would add...that they both used that intelligence to craft and create their work, something absent from contemporary performers who pander to audience taste. (This is my opinion, of course.)
@Scott S Read the new info that has shown that a lot of the things attributed to Bing since his passing are either half truths or mistruths.....he was a very decent person, flawed but not horrible.
@@martintanksley3561 He stopped his heavy drinking very very very early on in his first marriage, at his wife's request. Was for marijuana legalisation and there was no hint of another woman even when he and his first wife were thinking about separation. In fact the people accusing him of this could provide no specifics only their suspicions. Not to say he didn't have the occasional romance with others only that he was either very discreet about it or he was not the womaniser he has been portrayed as. He apparently thought that the embarrassing of one's wife in public was reprehensible. He and Dixie stayed the distance in their 20 year marriage and he was inconsolable when he lost her to cancer. A beautiful, talented woman was Dixie Lee Crosby.
I am sure there is someone out there who loves Bing Crosby as much as you do. It's just finding them! But you will I guarantee it. If you don't then come back and look me up and I will show you somebody who does.
There's a story of Crosby taking a nap on stage during a break in rehearsal, in his vintage years. Someone shouts, "Cue Bing", and he's right back on the mark, on song, in tune! Got to love it. Also, for those Parky detractors. Parkinson was a professional journalist and his researched, incisive interviewing skills were only matched by Dick Cavett, in my opinion.
Same with Frank Sinatra. If you listen to his earlier recordings, you can hear some Bing when he hit certain notes. Hell, I think all pop singers today are indirectly influenced by Bing.
@@mwilliams1330 I think Dean got his style and his mannerisms from Harry Mills, perhaps some of his singing but in his early years you can certainly hear Bings influence.
There's no such thing as a perfect man, we all have our faults , but I weigh a person by does the good out weigh the bad?, and in most cases most people pass. Every Christmas they still play "White Christmas" on the radio, it wouldn't be Christmas without this song would it?. Bing had Class, no matter what some say about the man he had class.
We all have our faults?!!! I dunno about you, pal, but my faults do not quite extend to Bing's level. Somehow I have managed to go 45 years without abandoning my wife when she got cancer or regularly beating my children to a pulp just because I'd had a shitty day at work. I would imagine you have inexplicably been able to avoid such 'flaws' yourself.
@@jeffstone2136 According to his son Dennis' wiki page, it states : Their father had given an interview in 1959 when he said, "I guess I didn't do very well bringing my boys up. I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention. But I did my best and so did their mother."[12] Lindsay responded by saying "I don't know how our dad could feel he's failed us as a father. Reading that he had said that in an interview really shook me up. I only hope someday that I can give my son a tenth of what Dad has given us. And that I can rate any part of the admiration we've always felt for him. That's why it hurt so much to see him knocking himself in print. Taking himself apart and saying he punished us too much, that he was too strict with us, that he made us work too hard, that he spent too little time with us. That really shook me up."
Jeff Stone. Guess you missed Gary Crosby stating it was all a lie. The brothers wanted the bucks from the book of fabrications. They inherited the alcoholic syndrome . I saw pictures of Bing crying at his first wife’s funeral. Never heard except from you, He deserted her when she had cancer. She sadly became full blown alcoholic. They drank and he could hold his. They could have been the people in the days of wine and roses. Bing Crosby was a good man.
I love Bing. He was wrong when he said he couldn't create a mood when he sings. He creates a wistful nostalgia for times past. I spend every Christmas with him in film and music. He was, and still is, one of the Greats.
The best wig ever - an extremely well-made lace front: you literally cannot see the join. I always wonder why Sinatra wore such hideous rugs when he could have had one as sophisticated as this.
Have you ever read about Bing and his toupee. Apparently he was so laid back he would carry the toupee in a box, rock up to the studio, by himself (no entourage), check in and ask where the people were to fit the toup. Apparently a new maid at his house threw the box out one day not knowing and Bing went through the rubbish looking for it. What a marvellous and non egotistical man he was. The funny thing is he looked fantastic even without the hairpiece. I love him.....it is amazing how many of the big stars wore hairpieces, you couldn't even tell they were so well done.
A masterful performer, he holds an audience in the palm of his hand as effectively while speaking as he would ever do when singing, so consummate is his understanding of what it means to entertain.
My God this man just oozed class and dignity .......an American icon that sadly so much of this country has no idea even existed. As I was born in the Bay Area in 1962 ...... I knew all about him from a child through my grandparents. Man I miss those days ....
I was born in 1962 too. In Fort Lauderdale...My parents would go to the Fountain Blue Hotel on Miami Beach to see the Rat Pack perform...What great days those were. My parents were a very handsome couple and dressed to the nines...
Imagine, Bing was born around the turn of the century. During the roaring 20s, he was in his 20s driving model Ts, then he lived through the depression, WW2, and saw a man land on the moon. I'm thinking back in my life, I was born in the 70s, major changes I've seen are electronics. We went from landlines to cell phones and floppy disks to high speed internet. Cars haven't changed much since my childhood. We still don't have flying cars, lol.
All I can say is Christmas time just wouldn't be the same w/o Bing. He's been apart of it all my life. 🎶 It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas....🎶 Already getting in the spirit.😁
From Wiki... Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard. In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
Delightful interview. I've been a Crosby fan since the first of his movies I saw in the forties. Young people today have their own special entertainers but I've read several comments by young people on youtube regarding entertainers from this era and they often write that they wished they had been born earlier so they could have enjoyed these "old" entertainers.
Actors, performers and musicians from his era where beyond most we have today. Total professional, true entertainers. We just don’t get many like either of these people these days.
He was the best. Better then the rubbish of today For instance men with ponytails looking like girls and girls with ripped jeans and dirty trainers and common as dirt.
@@sisterpacifica just watching this video I feel alot smarter.
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Great share! Love this interview. Life long fan. He left a generous endowment to Gonzaga. He used to hang out in Seattle in the 50s early 60s with his pals including John Wayne on Lake Union. I never met him in person but my dad did several times. Loved the stories.
Wow--what a fantastic interview. Parkinson is an excellent interviewer---good questions--and I was so impressed, listening to this, by how intelligent Crosby is (was), how bright, entertaining and detaileld his responses are. Really good stuff.
I see some bad posts on Parkinson... notice how he asks a question, then stays out of Bing's way... He is a refreshing interviewer... could use a haircut though....!
@@77777aol OH? Please elaborate. In my opinion, a middle-aged man like this interviewer who imitates teenage boy hair style fads, and clothing fashion trends, is the one who is "out of touch"....meaning, he is "out-of-touch" with his own age!
What a great guy Bing was,a proper star.There was something special about yesterday's stars...Bing Crosby,Bob hope,Jack lemon,Jimmy Cagney and James Stewart,just to mention a few,all sadly not with us any more.May they all RIP.god bless them all.
Larry DeWein Well, speaking as a huge Dean Martin fan, I would probably disagree with you about that. Though of course Dean himself always credited Bing, along with Harry Mills of the Mills Brothers, as being one of his biggest influences when he was just starting out, so you may have a point...🙂
What a great singer and all the movies love watching them this was a lovely interview Michael is so good at his shows Bing loved his visits to Ireland I was at a golf course when he was playing he loved his golf nice man Great Singer and Actor Marie Dublin Ireland
Wish people would refrain from mentioning what they assume how a celebrity was in his/her personal life. Just comment on the artistry of the person, please!
Glad I read that his son Gary lied in his book about his dad....for $$ and jealousy 😕 I knew he was a great guy - his other sons verified that he was a great dad ☺
Saw Bob Hope being interviewed and he was asked about Gary Crosby's book on Bing----Hope said he asked Gary, "how could you make up such things about him?"---and Gary replied "I didn't. That is NOT the book I wrote. They added all that." Hope smiled and told the interviewer "So they felt they had to make the book more interesting, so it would sell. I do that, you do that too"---he said that's show biz.
OMG I love that he mentions Mildred Bailey. She really had such a beautiful voice, I've been listening to her song "Have You Forgotten So Soon?" a lot recently.
Bing Crosby was a horrible, self centered individual. He treated his first family like crap, and spent the rest of his life pretending to be “der bingle.”
RIP Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977), aged 74 And RIP Sir Michael Parkinson (March 28, 1935 - August 16, 2023), aged 88 You both will be remembered as legends.
