Bing Crosby Wallpapers

Bing Crosby Wallpapers

Bing Crosby Actor Wallpapers, Biography, Filmography

BIOGRAPHY
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. He was one of the most successful performing artists of the 20th century.

Arguably the first true multi-media star, Bing Crosby's influence on popular culture and popular music is enormous -- from 1934 to 1954 he held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. He was usually considered to be a member of popular music's "holy trinity" of ultra-icons, alongside Elvis Presley and The Beatles1.

Bing Crosby popularized singing with conversational ease, or crooning. His musical interpretations amalgamated rhythm and romance with scat singing, whistling, rhythmic improvisation and melodic paraphrasing as elements of a hotter, sexier sound than had been conceived before.

Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers that followed him, including the likes of Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Dean Martin. Tony Bennett summed up Crosby's impact, stating, "Bing created a culture. He contributed more to popular music than any other person - he moulded popular music. Every singer in the business has taken something from Crosby. Every male singer has a Bing Crosby idiosyncrasy." 1

Crosby also exerted a massive influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. In 1947 he invested US$50,000 in the Ampex company, which developed the world's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Crosby became the first performer in the world to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. He was, along with Frank Sinatra, one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.

In 1962, Crosby was the first person to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

FILMOGRAPHY
* King of Jazz (1930)
* Two Plus Fours (1930) (short subject)
* Check and Double Check (1930)
* Reaching for the Moon (1930)
* The March of Time (1930) (unfinished)
* Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
* One More Chance (1931) (short subject)
* Billboard Girl (1932) (short subject)
* Hollywood on Parade (1932) (short subject)
* The Big Broadcast (1932)
* Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933) (short subject)
* Blue of the Night (1933) (short subject)
* Dream House (1933) (short subject)
* Sing, Bing, Sing (1933) (short subject)
* Hollywood on Parade No. 9 (1933) (short subject)
* College Humor (1933)
* Too Much Harmony (1933)
* Please (1933) (short subject)
* Going Hollywood (1933)
* Just an Echo (1934) (short subject)
* We're Not Dressing (1934)
* I Surrender Dear (1934) (short subject)
* She Loves Me Not (1934)
* Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934) (short subject)
* Here Is My Heart (1934)
* Mississippi (1935)
* Two for Tonight (1935)
* The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
* Anything Goes (1936)
* Rhythm on the Range (1936)
* Pennies from Heaven (1936)
* Waikiki Wedding (1937)
* Double or Nothing (1937)
* Don't Hook Now (1938) (short subject)
* Dr. Rhythm (1938)
* Hollywood Handicap (1938) (short subject)
* Sing You Sinners (1938)
* Screen Snapshots: Stars on Horseback (1939) (short subject)
* Paris Honeymoon (1939)
* East Side of Heaven (1939)
* The Star Maker (1939)
* Road to Singapore (1940)
* Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6 (1940) (short subject)
* Swing with Bing (1940) (short subject)
* Rhythm on the River (1940)
* If I Had My Way (1940)
* Angels of Mercy (1941) (short subject)
* Road to Zanzibar (1941)
* Birth of the Blues (1941)
* My Favorite Blonde (1942) (Cameo)
* Holiday Inn (1942)
* Road to Morocco (1942)
* Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
* Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
* Dixie (1943)
* Going My Way (1944)
* Road to Victory (1944) (short subject)
* The Princess and the Pirate (1944) (Cameo)
* Here Come the Waves (1944)
* The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) (short subject)
* Duffy's Tavern (1945)
* Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945) (short subject)
* The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Celebrations (1945) (short subject)
* Road to Utopia (1946)
* Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946) (short subject)
* Blue Skies (1946)
* My Favorite Brunette (1947) (Cameo)
* Welcome Stranger (1947)
* Variety Girl (1947)
* Road to Rio (1947)
* The Emperor Waltz (1948)
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Happy Homes (1949) (short subject)
* Jolson Sings Again (1949) (voice only)
* Top o' the Morning (1949)
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) (voice)
* Alberta Vacation (1950) (short subject)
* Riding High (1950)
* Screen Actors (1950) (short subject)
* Mr. Music (1950)
* You Can Change the World (1951) (short subject)
* Here Comes the Groom (1951)
* Angels in the Outfield (1951) (Cameo)
* The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (Cameo)
* Son of Paleface (1952) (Cameo)
* Just for You (1952)
* Crusade for Prayer (1952) (short subject)
* Road to Bali (1952)
* Off Limits (1953) (appears on a TV)
* Scared Stiff (1953) (Cameo)
* Little Boy Lost (1953)
* White Christmas (1954)
* The Country Girl (1954)
* Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (1955) (short subject)
* Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956) (short subject)
* Bing Presents Oreste (1956) (short subject)
* Anything Goes (1956)
* High Society (1956)
* The Heart of Show Business (1957) (short subject)
* Man on Fire (1957)
* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958) (short subject) (voice)
* Alias Jesse James (1959) (Cameo)
* Say One for Me (1959)
* Let's Make Love (1960) (Cameo)
* High Time (1960)
* Pepe (1960) (Cameo)
* The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
* Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
* Cinerama's Russian Adventure (1966) (documentary) (narrator)
* Stagecoach (1966)
* Bing Crosby's Washington State (1968) (short subject)
* The World of Sport Fishing (1972) (documentary)
* Cancel My Reservation (1972) (Cameo)
* Just One More Time (1974) (short subject)
* That's Entertainment! (1974) (narrator)

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