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Post by sparks on Feb 15, 2016 15:00:53 GMT -5
As I'm sure most of you know, I'm an unabashed fan of Bing Crosby. Figured I would share this interview with him done in 1972. Very cool, and there is even some pipe smoking in it. Talk about a guy that was just a natural pipe smoker... it's like it was an extension of him. Enjoy!!
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Post by crapgame on Feb 15, 2016 15:02:56 GMT -5
at one time he was a part owner of the pittsburgh pirates if i remember correctly
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Post by papipeguy on Feb 15, 2016 20:12:38 GMT -5
What a wonderful show! Of course, the pipe is classic. Parkinson was on British TV for decades and eventually knighted, and rightly so. Thanks for sharing this memory.
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Post by HunterTRW on Feb 15, 2016 20:53:18 GMT -5
Mr. Crosby's picture should accompany any dictionary definition of the word "raconteur," for he was a master!
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Post by sparks on Feb 15, 2016 21:03:50 GMT -5
Mr. Crosby's picture should accompany any dictionary definition of the word "raconteur," for he was a master! That's a $10 word right there, Hunter.... and it couldn't be more accurate. He had a way with words for sure. |
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Post by phonomet on Feb 15, 2016 21:46:41 GMT -5
I didn't know he was a drummer, very cool.
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Post by Hank on Feb 16, 2016 10:38:04 GMT -5
Love Bing Crosby. As a singer and a drummer/guitarist myself I think he has it all. He took his main talent singing and parlayed into a very nice expanded career. Plus he is a pipe smoker as well! I found a nice3 Canadian that looks like his pipe and I also enjoy his Crooner blend from C&D on a regular basis!
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Post by HunterTRW on Feb 16, 2016 15:29:26 GMT -5
Here's another treat for the fans of Mr. Crosby...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 21:56:21 GMT -5
Justin thanks for posting this it was great.
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Post by johnbrandt on Oct 2, 2017 14:49:23 GMT -5
Bing was frequent customer of the Wilke Pipe Shop in New York city don't know what blend he smoked.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 2, 2017 16:12:17 GMT -5
Not to throw a wet towel on everything, a friend of mine grew up on the same block with the Crosby family in Hillsborough Ca., she told me that the public family presented was a lot cheerier than the private reality and that she saw Bing in a nasty mood a few times. When this story came out, I asked if she agreed, she told me that it was obviously a more personal account from a son than she would ever experience, but that she was inclined to believe it. people.com/archive/cover-story-the-sad-ballad-of-bing-and-his-boys-vol-19-no-11/I believe that within 15 years of dad/s death, three of the four boys were dead...pretty consistent with some real underlying problems. articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/17/local/me-crosby17 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 16:26:55 GMT -5
My dad is/was a good man, a great man in many ways. However, when he got remarried, like Bing did, his real sons didn't count. He's spent the last 42 years keeping his wife happy and bailing her kids out of jail, the gleams in his eyes.
It took me years to come to grips with that, as dad and I did so many good things together. Just that I see both sides of this issue. I could write a truly big horror story. If I want to be honest at some point I quit being a son he could be proud of. We made our peace some years ago. His wife still hates me, but it doesn't stop me from loving dad... and being a Der Bingle fan
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Post by trailboss on Oct 2, 2017 16:44:27 GMT -5
My dad is/was a good man, a great man in many ways. However, when he got remarried, like Bing did, his real sons didn't count. He's spent the last 42 years keeping his wife happy and bailing her kids out of jail, the gleams in his eyes. It took me years to come to grips with that, as dad and I did so many good things together. Just that I see both sides of this issue. I could write a truly big horror story. If I want to be honest at some point I quit being a son he could be proud of. We made our peace some years ago. His wife still hates me, but it doesn't stop me from loving dad... and being a Der Bingle fan I hear you, my story is similar in ways. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 2, 2017 22:48:17 GMT -5
Der Bingle was my parents generation. Still, I always admired his coolness, his voice, the movies, the pipe.
Never met him, obviously. Still, I had a moment of connection with him many years ago. I worked, briefly, as a nightwatchman at the old Levi Strauss plant in the Mission District of San Francisco. They still made denim products there. I worked through college as a nightwatchman since I could study on the job. Anyway, one night I had occasion to enter the plant manager's office. There on the back of the door was a newly made denim tuxedo on a hanger. Examining it, there was a label inside which read "Made Expressly for Bing Crosby. The Levi Strauss Company". I was suitably impressed.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 3, 2017 12:18:31 GMT -5
That's pretty cool....I had heard about the denim Tux being reintroduced a few years ago. www.gq.com/story/levis-vintage-clothing-bing-crosby-denim-tuxedoI have a Levi's story..I worked construction on the Madeline Haas (of Levi's) estate in Atherton, later got to use Walter Haas's luxury box seats for a Giants game, unrelated to the construction job...At the time, they owned the Oakland A's across the bay. Maybe I will tell it sometime....incredibly rich people. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 13:58:03 GMT -5
He smoked cigars too, don't know about cigs, but he did die of lung cancer, so must have inhaled some or all of his smokes ?
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Post by sparks on Oct 3, 2017 14:32:32 GMT -5
He smoked cigars too, don't know about cigs, but he did die of lung cancer, so must have inhaled some or all of his smokes ? Actually he died of a massive heart attack, though he did have lung disease as well. He was a cig smoker back in the day, but gave them up at some point. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 14:47:53 GMT -5
Had some fungal lung infection. He went out in style after a game of golf.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 14:50:07 GMT -5
BTW, thing about Der Bingle and guys like Bob Hope and Dean Martin they made it look so easy. They always managed a light banter instead of hard emotion.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 3, 2017 15:52:41 GMT -5
That's pretty cool....I had heard about the denim Tux being reintroduced a few years ago. www.gq.com/story/levis-vintage-clothing-bing-crosby-denim-tuxedoI have a Levi's story..I worked construction on the Madeline Haas (of Levi's) estate in Atherton, later got to use Walter Haas's luxury box seats for a Giants game, unrelated to the construction job...At the time, they owned the Oakland A's across the bay. Maybe I will tell it sometime....incredibly rich people. The old Haas family had a good reputation in San Francisco. |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 3, 2017 16:57:06 GMT -5
I have time now...
I worked construction and we had a soil erosion project on a private property in the uber rich neighborhood of Atherton...we had a rip rap job of stacking wet burlap bags of concrete on the sides of the creekebd on the property...as we entered the gates, there was a baeautiful cottage in the forest in the middle of the city, like something from a Thomas kinkade portrait... "Wow, that is beautiful" I said...the boss said, "That's the servants quarters."...The outdoor meat locker was bigger than most of my apartment...the house sold for 53 million some years back.
Fast forward about five years...My buddy had a buddy that was a fireman in Atherton. He house sat for the Haas family that rarely ever used the house. They kicked him down the luxury box seats and about fifteen of us went to the game. One problem...My firstborn daughter had been born that morning, and that night was the game! At about three O'clock, I convinced the wife that she needed her sleep and we headed to the ball park. When the attendant found out I had just became a dad, he brought out a box of cigars...I didn't know a thing about them, but I was assured they were "the best". trays of lobster, shrimp, prime rib, and every sort of liquor flowed....all top shelf...and the luxury box attendant made sure my daughter's name was put up on the sign with a congratulations...and we had limo ride both ways...two limos... It was quite an experience...
Then I turned into Cinderfella as soon as I got out of the coach.
They lost to the Cincinnati Reds on 4/15/1983...but frankly, we were having so much fun, that the game was secondary...
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