Bing Crosby

Subject: RE: Bing Crosby
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:30 AM

Yes, Bing was a great one. The man single-handedly wrested the popular male vocal away from the tenors and handed it to the baritones.

But the Elvis anniversary crap is another beastie altogether. The post-mortem Elvis, the idea of Elvis-as-icon, is, after all, a media creation. So it's natural that the media should pull out all the stops in celebration of the anniversary of the death of Elvis-the-man, because it is also a celebration of the birth of Elvis-the-icon. Hell, a lot of tabloids owe a large amount of their success over the last twenty-five years to the man's death. It's normal for them to promote their own baby.

Subject: RE: Bing Crosby
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:04 AM

Yes, a good singer but as much as I dislike him as a person, Sinatra was head and shoulders above him. A pretty voice is unnecessary, look at Lady Day. Intonation and phrasing, Sinatra had the patent on them.

Subject: RE: Bing Crosby
From: Allan Dennehy
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 08:16 AM

Nice one Tom. Bing was surely one of the greatest singers ever.

Subject: Bing Crosby
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 05:37 AM

Hello there,

I thought that I might tell that it was 25 years ago that Bing Crosby Died.

I mean we here in Britian was treated to an Elvis week, to mark the 25th year of the death of Elvis, and yet Bing Crosby or another singer called Marc Bolan of T-rex was never mentioned.

I thought that I might tell you that

Tom