This review originally ran in the San Jose Mercury News: Strange to say, Bing Crosby needs this biography. Other major white male jazz/pop singers who were eclipsed in the rock revolution of the '60s managed to re-emerge. Frank Sinatra's bad-boy behavior kept him hot. Tony Bennett hung with the R...
I’ve seen great singers choke, ‘cause they’re with the best. And whenever you did something like that, if you blew it, he blew it right behind you and blamed it on himself—you know, “Let’s do another take, I fucked that up.” He always sang the harmony part when he worked w...