Kaleidoscope; Conversations 1967; Bing Crosby with James Day

it's been i know mr bing crosby is a paragon and a paradox in show business for two thirds of his life he's been a sad maintain a successful spot on top of the heap in the entertainment world and yet he's a musician who had no formal musical training though he was given an honorary doctorate music degree by his alma mater guns it university he's an actor who's never studied acting but

has received the highest award in the motion picture industry an oscar for his role as a priest in going my way he's a business tycoon with no business background and a millionaire who once worked as a part time janitor to put himself through school harry lillis crosby was one of seven children born to catherine and harry crosby of tacoma washington they moved to spokane while harry was still a toddler made their headquarters in spokane for several decades young harry became thing through an addiction to a comic strip being spilled you go and he's been doing ever since the family of nine lived on a modest income at the senior crosby earned as a bookkeeper with lee and len brewery and the boys' work at odd jobs to put themselves through school being pursued a long major at guns it university but had a very brief bow with a lot because he couldn't resist

his first and only love show business and he's been on resisting it for about forty years since mr crosby your success has of course brought you a considerable fortune magazine writer is estimated between forty and seventy and they are effective but whatever digit considered i suspect there must have been a time in your career very early when you thought that a fortune of this magnitude would solve all of their problems as the helm acquisition of money brought any disillusionment all about the power of money just accumulate more problems do for us that i must have a lithium estimates of my work they are grossly exaggerated fantastically exaggerated that's true i guess when they land of figures though is it i said and it hasn't given me many more problems and i never thought that i would require if i ever

became affluent what kind of problems and these problems of managing the money and managing and the dryness a low and privacy it's channeled into the right directions honestly no real genuine problems in that nothing that can be overcome and can be solved one can still be happy though well i guess it is you have to say that you've made a good deal of your lock in the success you've had your autobiography is titled call me lucky do you recycle lock was a major factor in no i just thought that my mother used to get furious when i did because he said look at nothing to do it it was the good lord and her prayers and lately i've become convinced that she was right but there were some lucky things that happen to meeting the right people and the right color at the right time becoming associated with people who are qualified to give advice and direction and were qualified

to the jail for me in that fine place for me to work or people like jack kapp to cut waste out of the polling is now running as hannah my first time starters rather ever been to like buddy the solar power among pitchers you put me in a lot of the things i was just drifted around and that i had already here and i was able to listen to people and do what they said if i thought they are that experience and then what knowledgeable i followed them implicitly and i guess it's kind of lucky you say that more recently income to think that perhaps your mother was right about her prayers what's happened more recently this cause you to think that luck is a little less important that were maybe having come a little closer to religion and taking over the way things go they can become convinced that there is an inland province looks have to house boys the good lord was like an afternoon with another

record this record them but you have to feel authentic some influence other than something morally was working why have even brought my mother was such a wonderful woman and she did so many things so much good work and she was success and happiness for me so i really want to make her happy but it had good things happen to me why and even pop culture religion in recent years why can't come for except as you get older you have to say the soul was a religion i know it was a pretty good catholic lots of transgressions for which i was a police or in the church if you can add that they're still in full but he'd get all virgin you know you just you you come to a letter like syria like me religion is a great soloist the great refuge great comfort when did you first city to be recalled i guess when i was oh let's talk i sang and when i was

at nine years old in tennis and publicly in your parish all americans and their one of the twelve thirteen fourteen and a seven rounds small said i sent away for cost about forty dollars japanese sunset and they spun heaven symbol in the final and then i go and i sang around khalid says analyst those are falling revenues there was anger if you think by carrie jacobs bond than one fleeting our loved ones and the last smiling through things and irish songs corso john mccormick pepper their connections or are we as riggan yeah how's everyone in that came out and i knew all the songs and i thought he was a wonderful saying they'd appeal than great sincerity in the quality of his voice like a bird but cosby apparently they the casualness a presence and so

forth didn't come easily and your early years because your quarter your own book as saying having to sing in public embarrassment to live almost finished high school led the nominees addressed not to retire as you know the knickerbockers falling crime that embarrassment more than singing women of course the powers and iran boys all thought things merely for girls are assessing the value of the baseball world because we were mostly as a group of boys are mostly concerned with rock fights and the wilpon rolling lawns looking around and robbing the bakery wagon and the more adventurous and more colorful than standing up in front of the place of solace of alexander singing one fleeting rather than encourage you and give you break in fact she took me to a teacher

for about three lessons and she paid to lessons and she didn't in the money to spare the time of the lessons cost five dollars a session and then he gave me some things to vocalize arms and scales on the piano and i think the what about three times the lessons but i didn't keep up the vocalizing for a few years i think of most of the uk but that's not the only ears formal musical training i ever have what you get up after three lessons and then the money sure offend an hour every second wait a little stronger among one of the world then hurd as use of said earlier you you get into a band was as the june two seventh first column is a political leaders is a calamitous way that it was the coroner corner down drum banjo and they had a lot of singing and

we had a trio of the drums as well with a drone very badly like thrillers a lot we have to get the records with one of the records shop a local record shop and they came out like where is pennsylvania and some cotton pickers of the jingle cats in some of the old man's jack chapman whiteman we get the records and take on roman orator or a piano solo he couldn't write music or in music he could listen to the records and a separate the different parts and then teach and to the bolivian the harmony part and we learn the solos always samantha spy was another man that i mentioned the coptic month ago both been involved in the kansas city art i mean there was no i will really hilarious and he gets separate the cause the saxophone trombone the current the content and then teach each guys bought by aol played by it

and when i got finished rehearsing and if we get this now one of the senate was very advanced very progressive for a musical circles in spokane we became my head around that we were playing songs that hit the other in the real world i wasn't belonging to unions really have much of a musician that we have access to that special material this is what you were at times a thousand undergrads and then at some point you made a decision to leave college there was no office i was why a lot of the jobs with a band best jobs on weekends in the lake in the summer then they'll proper of the climate better the vatican down and saying the prologue for pitchers used to have about two weeks there in silent pictures and the visa's a pitcher was famously chanting inappropriate parts of the western pictures in the trouble it's

in the organ with the company that had the four that we would let them too or when we were buying the same as he was playing and they record it and two more songs that sense of balance and why the ballot was in a little spanish town and the other one was where to me personally and a lot of songs that you sent somebody over to harrison they like business and force will announce it and i'm andrea as commander his dressing room that very much anyway let's hear the thousands on sort of poof rounds says the wealth and they get a call the next tune this was after the first afternoon show about four o'clock in the afternoon the coup it was a violent campaign and alongside that about how the carrier and what those citizens who've looked like a

voter they're more importantly from god the lunch and caviar and sipping champagne and carolyn room and do a few songs on yes as you would like to join in legal in chicago next in the same way in that we play when it is an offer i think a hundred family from the team and the guy there were the chicago so we have one more week by fencing work on that particular circuit so we finish that oddly done in chicago to tivoli theatre on the south side of chicago and if i may be a little modest an immediate hit you were that were very different than the great figures in them than people of the district and tester has the ruling party in national and expired that can anyone just a scam and a few months later and that was a great turning around for most of these things about the biggest

lesson of the heart and a good musician he could finally really started with the move to increase it musician salary for follows a specialist on any instrument or double what would a more money and he raised musicians' salaries commanders at a time when they were more arrests that we play watchdog with three or four weeks and then i went to sing those were weeded well into detroit playing wal mart wants to do very well in new york for you and disney world when you say we like it just to that time as the father of the boy in the moon and they are paramount that threatens the producer there and we went on a regular spot to only one out there and we lead the other name an anomaly nothing they just looked at us why new york i can figure that would never be able to understand this important week at the sun for a couple days and then there is what is backing band and we sat there holding

instance we couldn't plan and we do low humming his family arrived with three other seniors and young oh danny for telling a little alarming counterpoint would do that for quite a few weeks than help them up the broken ground on the window of the cafe and the same thing and then had their selections your joss whedon that you don't say no what could save the idea putting things together and harry that a few things a little jump songs and they'd move mississippi mud that solo work of white with one ally within the boys' and then we took a year that leana wen only in the teeth and that we were not going to make a picture with white and can get along with that than to get involved in the middle of election that and there have been integrate the land in

rwanda and fired and then i would wear pants that they were into pokemon go to prison was a symbol of the time when one cup as well you know because of the year the filthy facility eight years he was the nonprofit or an amateur we were doing a presentation on was the fact that we had primaries too much land development and new baghdad final autograph we didn't really do work user has either way we have been a plantation going to we wanted to be in the business never have any real drive to become stars or anything like that we just like you have been doing tell you if we are good friends they first picking up a seattle vancouver and after that will eventually

be a case and i go to the ball i still feel grateful for what happened and why such an effect of you put you in a spotlight were because we have to give the man of the the association he's one of the musicians they were all things forcibly recorded the courses and some of his band and the whistle blew was one and some of the things it means i don't recall it really helped and being around around with these great musicians we would develop a taste of the late for aggressive things are good things and jazz too and the barista learned an awful lot about composition as a greater ranges in the banned barbie and williams go build cellist and on saturday two people from people whose names are really legendary and thirty growth because for a lot of things that we sang

and that ranges far as vocal arrangements which he taught us the band records abuse onstage and we had enough of the tremendous training teachers the air to arrive on that was very valuable to it with this great action saw what they could do canadians have worked in some of their acts and they worked with us so a lot of material from a book it's reviewed later joked that time is this was the beginning of the association of that whatever it was like to have a considerable for him yeah it was a tremendously and feeling against we room together quite often room with the very week that this garlic and family in one of nature's very long human sympathetic sort of when you say genius do you mean as a musician oh

exactly yeah i think if you don't live in a limit to what he could have done this is they were going to reinvest it is far ahead of his time not so much with the car that we know it what he was was a corner of the things he did on panel we'll get a few things it to the fort passed on like in the midst of some of the things that they were a remarkably fresh even today and he was a good musician and put things down on paper with some help you as an israeli and that you couldn't assemble things and get them to yeah this is where your own sort of well developed yet them of what the lower courts as i said one wounded vet and we're going to go to with some trepidation knowing that those are good signs spanish town marilyn moon economist with them within its unionized pens proper lighting

their first movie came about as a result of singing at the coconut grove or buy that first job it will be out and buildings making the two of them for banks sr go some of it is going to go so he had become a song called when the folks i have been low down they were shooting at night and when i went out there at the finish line for the pokemon go to this number that was a first time appearance for each victim you had appeared in and shorts before the cia annex an accent charts is in sharp focus to what kind of things would this short percent when the song title and mary lou in iceland can think of the others and the road to little companies around with one of the chase and then i worked in a picture with sylvia sidney rice saying yes

when the song title with the tensions of the color of their scene and yes the bad then it and in the markets or a tell i want peace and their apartment cbs radio and i cannot just isn't the source the first radios in that picture berenson allen smith street singer built runs boswell sisters as to fuel our color all of the film is violating role and i said a few words but it meant it was a thousand songs in their fleets gloria mentioned the influence of al jolson you were youngster and what

about the later years with the stolen phones yes in fact after the picture's olsen's story is a revival of interest in towson that we work together on the craft musical this week a couple of shows and working with him was still a great experience i have to say he was the greatest independent of the same in the things he and in singing i've never seen an incredible it was to let this meant that even after he'd not a show business as long as he had entered and was a combative man on to the generation of people that were working for you for showing in for us was in los angeles and hollywood and we didn't find an audience of the radio show and i was wondering well to be honest with the young people who had seen the movie possibly but they didn't know anything about in person and i'm wondering i would go and it has to make a not only a ha the future ghost does and then he went

into a song and it was one of those to the tootsie things you know and that for about eight bars they just can't look at him and all of a sudden you could just see that audience the comments follow what this fire was going away moving away sang in the enthusiasm and necessity but it only fear is that the theater of fell apart and he was on a month and what other qualities though the electrified the audience and what is something i finally i'm not an electrified performance on the very scientists and a few little songs but this man could really galvanize an audience until your friends it can really terrible fight and then the same with it winter garden in the arts has been years ago when there was but wyden for this when i went with what many came out on the runway at blue and again on sunday nights there that the fear was dark but there was a broadway show finally sunday night was dark and they used a variety show and he was the featured performer he can on the runway into an hour and a half of singing

this journalistic pieces do need violent has it which is one of the fertile terraces letters l a performer i can think of you can do the same thing but not too the petitioner is the heights that he could that he did how long do you intend to continue singing you know there's a character actors authors of the war ii and make it recognize the capability of this comes back to me if you give them a little bit about half of that in there and yet you you've develop a style over the years that is flexible you've sung long since left a little blue days and gotten two hymns and was one of the year influences i mentioned the first talkie and inject that was head of the american than that he saw this the analysts say or if it could

be induced in the verse of the kicker etcetera those of popular singer could really broadened its scope and he put me in the hearings and a war and west into the patriotic and eight coupled me with a bottle of the mills brothers with the woody herman with the dorsey brothers with lombardo with antique guns sped it was that jesse crawford every kind of an orchestra every kind of an ensemble of vocal groups that was wearing an i can go on and on on with the organization's in and lots of times i thought it was a part of his mind the things he wanted to sing in indian and silent night and things of that had been tested for day lewis and recitation the star spangled banner and i can't even begin to name all the things of the top commander in that am i was and i was generous and i don't see how that but i had confidence in him because he was a successful man

he had a very persuasive way of describing these things in what they might accomplish or what they might do for me or huge numbers about anything today on the commission not singing anything serious today a play that of course certain roles i would try but that's not to marry this is sensible that is more contingent do you look forward to a day when your life will be filled entirely with fishing and hunting and golf dot org like an instrument and i think that there are probably hundreds of thousands and millions of people that will continue until business we look for this for a long time i mean there's been a crime

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