Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940

by Gary Giddins
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940

by Gary Giddins

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Overview

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316886451
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 10/08/2002
Edition description: First Back Bay Paperback Edition
Pages: 768
Sales rank: 589,829
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Gary Giddins wrote the Weather Bird jazz column in the Village Voice for over 30 years and later directed the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received the National Nook Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998.

His other books include Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years, 1930-1940, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; Warning Shadow; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting. He lives in New York, NY.

Table of Contents

Introduction3
Part 1Bingo From Bingville
1The Harrigans15
2The Crosbys23
3Tacoma29
4Spokane35
5Gonzaga53
6Mr. Interlocutor73
7Musicaladers92
8Vaudeville113
9Whiteman141
10Rhythm Boys160
11Of Cabbages and Kings186
12Dixie218
13Prosperity Is Just Around the Crooner243
Part 2Everybody's Bing
14Big Broadcast259
15The Crosby Clause282
16Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?297
17Under Western Skies322
18More Than a Crooner341
19Decca365
20Kraft Music Hall394
21Public Relations430
22Homecoming451
23A Pocketful of Dreams470
24Captain Courageous503
25What's New533
26Easy Riders559
Discography593
Filmography607
Notes and Sources622
Interviews and Bibliography671
Acknowledgments687
Index695
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