The summer 2003 edition
of BING magazine (#134) is now available and there are detailed reports on the
very successful centennial celebrations at
Gonzaga and
The
Crosby family have been prominent too with Kathryn Crosby touring the USA
promoting her book and obtaining great publicity for Bing. Nathaniel and Steven
Crosby have both given important interviews to various periodicals and we carry
extracts from these. The Bob Hope centennial in May received very good coverage
both in the USA and the UK and Bing invariably cropped up in relation to this.
A number of members sent greetings to Bob which I know would have been very
much appreciated by the Hope family. Our cover photos this time mark the
centennial of both Bing and Bob and we thank Greg Van Beek for providing the
front cover and Jon Oye for the item used at the back.
At
Gonzaga, we saw the new KSPS-TV documentary, Bing Crosby - Going My Way, and hopefully this will start appearing
on PBS stations all over the
In the UK, the BBC’s Radio2 network carried
three one-hour programmes on Bing’s work which were narrated by Pat Boone
and Bert Bishop reviews these in depth as well as looking at the many tribute
programmes from all over the globe.
In the USA, MCA/Universal have issued three superb new
double DVDs and other companies have been active on this front as well. CDs
continue to be issued featuring Bing and Ken Crossland in his Keeping Track section has full details of
all of these. Ken also looks at some of the items seen on Ebay in recent
months.
Gord Atkinson tells us of the latest issues in his The
Crosby Years series and all of the other regular contributors are there
too with Wig Wiggins detailing some important radio broadcasts in which he was
involved and Keith Parkinson looking
at Bing’s film The Big Broadcast.
We have information about Bing’s early work with the Musicaladers and his
time as one of the Three Harmony Aces and his role in the Clemmer Entertainers.
In short, if you are interested in Bing Crosby,
this is the magazine for you.
As Michael Crampton reminds us, this will be the last
magazine issued on behalf of the International Crosby Circle as
next time we shall be part of the new International Club Crosby. The annual
meeting at Leeds in October will of course be the first for the UK branch of
the International Club Crosby. It’s going to be an exciting new era for
the Crosbyana fan movement.
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