Bing Crosby interview - Today - Thames Television

[@davidallen508]

I love his speaking voice,his singing voice,his recordings , his movies and his genuine humility.Thank God for Bing Crosby..

[@rickyrasputin7875]

I marvel at You Tube & Google though collecting current events, they also house US history that can buoy oldie hearts. Bing had radio show in 40's with theme song, "When the Blue of the night, meets the Gold of the Day". Leading to "When the gold of her hair, crowns the blue of her eyes" etc. T'was better than, "Baby; baby x/25... " & Hip Hop aloola. Add a headache to the BASS DRUMS. Fine contemporary; etc. Change is good, but only when it goes FORWARD. Even Putin knows that. Censor the good, it's a paradise for Kamala Harris crowd when old Joe B., gets a home on Praire.

[@CliffMcAulay]

What a great man Bing was. His work was peerless, and he always had humility and gratitude for whatever life dealt him. Thank you for uploading this interview.

[@richardoconnor2560]

Even his plain, everyday speaking voice has a musical lilt to it. Learned from his past, and made sure to spend quality time with his second family. One of the greatest entertainers ever and made it all look so easy.

[@JSB1882]

Wow! that was a great interview. The interviewer didn't hold back and Bing Crosby seemed so honest.

[@glenlay]

The untouchable Star of bygone days that still is a star and was truly worthy of Star status, I’ve managed to accumulate many CD’s and DVD’s that still give me endless amounts of joy and good old fashioned entertainment. God bless you Bing and thank you.🇺🇸🇬🇧 28th/12/2019

[@jaykdiamond]

Amen Brother.

[@SuperC888]

I love Bing! I’m now watching American Masters about Bing. Such a beloved man. Interesting fact: he had more #1s (41) than the Beatles (20) & Elvis (18) put together. Incredible career.

[@alvaropelayo8084]

To me, one of the greatest stars ever. God bless Bing Crosby, rip

[@meghan21073]

The interviewer was rude asking questions about money. It was disrespectful to him and his profession. Bing is an inspiration and a lovely gentleman x

[@bobdownes162]

Couldn't agree more !

[@deanj1981]

I like the words bing said at the end of the interview, about accountability, totally true 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jookingstudio5292]

In the 1940s he was in Hollywood's top 10 earners almost every year. Let's face it, he was one of the most famous men on the planet.

[@clue104]

Mr. Bing Crosby, ladies and gentlemen. 👏👏👏🙌🙏👍

[@gregorymcguire6217]

I love Bings easy going nature, so down to earth and honest.

[@windstorm1000]

Yes! He's great and Christmas time w Bing!

[@mitzymoo3151]

@@borchardt1953 🙄🙄

[@FervAnimalLover]

@@borchardt1953 BS take. Much of Gary Crosby's claims have been debunked including by his brothers. And also the kids in his second family would beg to differ too.

[@rickyrasputin7875]

He's one of our best. Saw many bumps in the road, but prevailed ever so well.

[@girvanpaterson1098]

He was actually 72 in 1975, 74 when he died in 1977. The Greatest star of the 20th. Century, but so humble, he never saw himself that way!

[@isombe2388]

Yeah, and Danny Kaye were cool too!

[@jaykdiamond]

Bing turned 72 on May 3, 1975 so he was, as he said 71 when this video was recorded.

[@barbaraedwards5782]

Wow I can remember listening to Bing Crosby when I was a little girl I think he was a great singer.

[@Shelton1967]

Wonderful Interview!

[@jonnycat6a517]

I miss this Hollywood!

[@alanwitton5980]

Great singer and entertainer! Sadly missed

[@windy4532]

Great interview.Bing _so casual and cool.with his answers..He gave good answers. That interviewer didnt hold back. I like the story about Bob Hope. In response to an earlier statement, I don't think Bing Crosby was a monster to his kids. I never believed the stories in Gary s book.

[@michaelcondry1493]

Windy I don't believe the stories either. His other sons said that Gary Crosby over exaggerated what he did to them to sell more books

[@rickyrasputin7875]

Always felt if I left my wallet in club house, Bing would tell me, and Hope would empty it.

[@rickyrasputin7875]

Booze was unmentioned, but I think it gave Bing grief, at times.

[@oldtoby9377]

Gary admitted that he was drunk most of the time while writing the book. Yes, Bing was not a very good father to his four sons, but I believe his marriage with Kathryn pretty much redeemed him

[@rickyrasputin7875]

@@oldtoby9377 Bing hit it big after being in a stretch of also rans. Big as in Elvis, Beatles type fame. IMO, booze to him was better than alternatives, unlike Hank William's choice for coping with hot, big time cash. Gary seems to be another child who resented serious Dad rulings.

[@Sprongo]

He looks good, animated and fresh, unlike a lot of the old rockers today. This could be an ad for drug abstinence.

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

Sprongo Actually believe it or not Bing had smoked marijuana from the 1930s when Louis Armstrong introduced it to him tell his death

[@devinpetersen2387]

He chain smoked his pipes that is what kept him intelligent

[@windstorm1000]

@@NotHarpoGroucho I believe it. Bing was more a hep cat than most realize. Was civil rights supporter for one.

[@HolgerRuneFan]

Bing smoked a ton of weed when with the Rhythm Boys and into the 1930's. Toked with Satchmo too, check out the Giddins bio.

[@mkaiser29]

We have lost a lot in The USA, listen to the way Americans used to speak. They had good morals and good principals

[@bobdownes162]

Back in the early 70s in London, Bing did a short commercial in a recording studio (most likely a 30 second thing) For some reason he was unable to be paid for his Services. ( probably something to do with the dreaded Musicians Union). But after the Session had been done, (apparantly in One Take) outside, was a Rolls Royce parked for him.

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Bing was A True star. Humble, easy going and Talented. And you could see he didn't like to brag about his wealth!! Comes across as a family man too. ☺😍🙏

[@monaandersen2123]

I say never mind vicht song .l love the sound as comming from your mouth. Solei deo gloria INKREDYBLY thanksfull

[@oskar9496]

He looks younger than 72 here!

[@CrayHay]

Bingo was wearing a wig here so that makes him look younger.

[@emmaschwultz5181]

Oskar es

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

Craig Haylett Not a wig a toupee, which he wore since the 20s

[@oldtoby9377]

@@CrayHay Man was balding since his mid 20s. Hated wearing a toupee but did so to maintain his public figure. Look at some of the pictures he had with his family or when he was performing for the soldier; lo and behold, a near chrome-domed Bing!

[@SuperC888]

In the description it says it’s 1975. He was 72 at the time of this interview. He Died just 2 years later…: October 14, 1977, in Golf La Moraleja, Alcobendas, Spain on the golf course.

[@hardlines4]

Miss great crooners like Bing

[@glenlay5108]

Fantastic.

[@paulritchie2707]

I have a few victrolas & Bing's 78 library seems to be the most obtainable because of the popularity and demand for his music world wide.

[@phoenixphoenix1130]

My favourite jazz/blues singer Andrzej Zaucha

[@DavidBensonActor]

The most perfect, undetectable toupee ever.

[@KW-qq7nu]

Hard questions some of them, wrapped in nice tones, but hard all the same...good stuff.

[@richardsharpe2966]

What ever happened to Llew Gardner would like to know please he was a good broadcaster

[@WintersWar]

Good question. I love the interview with Robert Graves.

[@garethglitter5932]

Same Today set a year later when Bill Grundy was presenting.... They are Punk Rockers! The new craze they tell me. Their heroes, not the nice clean Rolling Stones. You see they're as drunk as I am.... etc etc

[@PamelaDrakeWilson]

Available to all Amazon Prime nembers,, a new documentary titled. "Crosby In Search Of Crosby: Bing, the Truth Behind the Legend"

[@NotAfraid280]

6:40 it’s sad how he says “now my boys are all doing fine” when 2 of them killed themselves years after this interview

[@mitzymoo3151]

He thought they were doing fine at this stage. At some point the boys had to take ownership of their own lives and problems.

[@NotAfraid280]

@@mitzymoo3151apparently he was abusive to them

[@mitzymoo3151]

@@NotAfraid280 There is conflicting issues surrounding that. Only one out of seven children claimed that in a book that has parts queried. New info out now throws doubts on some of the claims made and a lot of the misinformation surrounding this man is being cleared up. It's all very interesting......

[@humphreybogart6663]

I love when people talk shit based upon rags. Gary Crosby admitted he inflated stuff to sell books.

[@jourwalis-8875]

1975. That´s a long time ago now......

[@arnoldtrogman]

amazingly he died two years later..

[@germanboy7865]

Bing crosby was bad ass

[@rareblues78daddy]

Bing's toupée looks pretty good here!

[@michaelcondry1493]

They always did

[@MTknitter22]

rareblues78daddy 👍👍

[@emg8810]

Rarebliues, your sick. Play with your doll.

[@rareblues78daddy]

@@emg8810 ...found the guy who didn't know Bing was bald!

[@oldtoby9377]

@@rareblues78daddy It was a well-known fact back then, but not very much today

[@TitoTimTravels]

His production company made Hogan's Heroes - for that he will be fondly remembered forever! 😃🍹🇵🇭

[@medievalknievel]

HIGH SOCIETY!!!

[@MichaelBrown-vo3is]

He Died so young 74 GOLF KILLS!

[@donalddewar1502]

Michael Brown 74 isn't that young, even today. And he died doing what he loved -never a bad way to go.

[@chancesareshewears]

Articulate, erudite, humble.

[@s.egberink5357]

The fashion.......

[@monaandersen2123]

Thank you Father. Your son have genetiskt same sound in the mouth solei deo gloria

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Crosby is clearly embarrassed about his wealth and avoids talking about it. it must be awkward knowing that during the great depression you were living the life of royalty, servants and the finest food money can buy etc. he's in full acting mode here, wig, make up and we'll rehearsed, but playing the laid back singer

[@wodgerdog646]

Money and a lifestyle which he worked incredibly hard for. Read up on how many friends and acquaintances he helped out financially over the years and I think you will find he done a lot of great things for a lot of deserving people.

[@windstorm1000]

Bing humble even about wealth. Knows its poor taste to talk about it. Bing a hep cat !

[@oldtoby9377]

He even donated over a million dollars to Gonzaga University, his alma mater, even though the reason he became what he was is because he dropped out of it. What a man

[@windstorm1000]

These British interviewers are so nit picky. Irritating! Not like our relaxed American interviewers at all

[@converse91970]

windstorm1000 Don’t talk rubbish, lol!

[@MBM1117727]

Well this was in the 70s, nowadays British interviewers ask even more banal questions than Americans lol

[@WintersWar]

Llew Gardner was the man. He knew how to hold an interview and kept an arsenal of questions for his guest.

[@EricBrownBey]

Rude interviewer.

[@Senkino5o]

God bless him, far as the flesh goes he seems a nice man, but deluded and led astray, without Christ.

[@plutoplatters]

leave jesus out of it !! goddammmn

[@greghmn]

I thought he was Catholic.

[@JakeMabe1]

He was indeed Catholic and, according to his best friend Phil Harris, would attend Mass no matter where he was if at all possible, even if it meant hiring an airplane to get there. This judgmental jackass obviously knows little about Christ's teachings -- because he's too busy worried about an apparent splinter in someone else's eye rather than the plank in his own.

[@Senkino5o]

Jake Mabe Plank? The man was a smoker, a drinker, a gambler, an adulterer, sang wicked, worldly songs, prayed to Mary and to dead saints. He talked nice, dressed well, kept a relatively decent home and wasn't as vulgar as the modern-day pop artists are - So what? That's irrelevant, was he a Christian? Did he trust in the blood of Jesus, and that alone to justify him before the Father? I read about such a man, and find it was not so and it makes me sad, God will not accept you on your terms, Cain worshippers are not true worshippers. I used to like some of his music, however my authority is not Bing Crosby it is Jesus Christ and Him alone, His word which He gave to me. I'll examine the word of God, and if Bing Crosby don't measure up then Bing Crosby don't measure up. I don't mold and annotate the word to fit Bing Crosby, he'll have to mold himself to it.

[@Senkino5o]

Greg Homan What that got to do with it?

[@richardwalker1872]

He was a tyrant to his children and not really a very nice person, one son i know commited suicide. Evil is the best description for the man.

[@mitzymoo3151]

Read the relatively new information that counteract many of the unfair half truths and mistruths about this man. Especially how the son who wrote the unflattering book was later reinterviewed and the interesting answers he gave. As well as his step sisters interviews where she noted that he later apologised to the rest of the family and talked to her about his reasons for writing some things in said book. Another book written about Bing which damaged his reputation has been largely debunked. Also his latest and probably best biographer interviewed many people over many years who knew Bing and he noted that most of them loved him, which also dispels the myth that he wasn't liked or nice. His sons suicided in their 50s and if you read about the reasons they had little if anything to do with their father. Flawed yes, evil no and has been the subject of a lot of half truths and mistruths.

[@oldtoby9377]

You do realise Lindsay and Dennis took their own lives years after their father's death, right? By the way, it wasn't completely his fault; his first wife Dixie Lee's drinking problem that gave them fetal alcohol syndrome, which gave them a bit of a brain deficiency. Like I said in a previous comment, Bing was not a good father, but he wasn't evil. He was raised in an era where "Spare the rod, spoil the child" was the motto for parenting, and corporal punishment was still encouraged in Catholic teachings (his lifelong faith). All in all, what Gary wrote about him was utter baloney. A cheap method to make a quick buck. Joan Crawford's daughter wrote the same thing about her mother too. I suggest you watch PBS Masters Bing Crosby: Rediscovered or just look up Redeeming Bing Crosby on google. That'll give you a better insight about what he really was like

[@edukder]

A monster to his 4 sons.

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

fake news

[@michaelcondry1493]

Not true

[@wodgerdog646]

The suicides were long after Bing had passed and in fact had very little (if anything) to do with him. He spanked his boys (Bing freely admitted this many years ago), but as Kathryn said in an interview (available to look up), only Gary made the accusations and the other three boys refuted it. Mary said that Gary had said to her that what he wrote wasn't really the way it went down and there are lots of other bits of information out there that would tend to exonerate Bing. He could be cold, a firm disciplinarian and remote, but a monster definitely not, he clearly loved his boys. All four boys had issues when older, but to blame Bing for the suicides is untrue. Bing had many great qualities, his generosity, his loyalty, his absolute abhorance of treating people differently and the fact that as remote as he could be, his love for all of his children. His biggest problem I think was that he was unable to express his emotions and love to people, which would have made a difference.

[@MrPcrosby1]

I’m Phillip jr. And it’s true that my father was indeed pretty dysfunctional but my uncles suicides had more to do with their depression. All four struggled in life. The lives of celebrities can be that way. When Gary wrote his book the national conversation was turning towards how to raise children more gently and the book capitalized on that and the success of Mommy dearest. I don’t believe it was fair to throw Bing under the bus that way and i believe Gary felt the same at the end but those two had their issues and Bing was not a perfect man or father. An absent father can be challenging for a family and my grandmother struggled with their life together. All this is just what I’ve discovered over the years. Calling this man a monster has more to do with the individual making that claim than what kind of man my grandfather was. He was a great man, a phenomenal artist, and a great American.

[@penelopeanderson4833]

phil crosby jr thank you for bringing a very personal insight into this subject. As he said in this interview he regretted not being there for them. I think he loved them.