Podcast Bio: Bing Crosby

10/25/20 • 12 min

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Bing Crosby was the biggest name in Christmas and in music in the 20th century — hands down. Others will argue it might have been Elvis or Frank Sinatra or Johnny Cash or someone else. And they would be completely wrong. Bing was the one everyone else imitated. Crosby’s story is classically American. He was [...]

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