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And for another way to celebrate... I see that TCM is running about 12 hours of Bing movies on May 2:

Pennies From Heaven (1936)
The Bells Of St. Mary's (1945)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Country Girl, The (1954)
High Society (1956)
Man On Fire (1957)
The Road To Hong Kong (1962)

I loved your playlist Don.

Here's another little gem, the rejected take of We're A Couple Of Soldiers My Baby and Me, it's priceless

Don, I'll add to your Bing Bash with the following trio of fun photos showing Bing with some other familiar faces (or voices).


Bing With the Boswell Sisters


Posing with Paul Whiteman, Harry Barris, and Al Rinker.


And here is Bing on drums with the rest of the "band" made up of Jack Benny (on violin of course), Dick Powell, K. Murray, and Shirley Ross. If we only had the audio for this one...

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Off the top of my head those are the only two recordings I can think of.

FWIW, the Boswell Sisters also appeared quite a few times on Bing's radio program. I was thinking that the photo might have been from that.

Well, I suppose I can add my old "home movies" to Don's worthwhile tribute. When I was in Spokane a couple of years ago, I made a special trip to Gonzaga University to see Bing's childhood home which is situated right on the campus grounds. Admittedly, the videos are quite short and lame because I was feeling rather intrusive while taking them; The home, although open to casual visitors, is also used as a busy alumni office for the University.


Outside front

Dining Room & Living Room

Kitchen

Upstairs

Leaving

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Crosbyana Room - panorama

Crosbyana Room - showcase of 45's

This clip is taken from Paramounts "Hollywood On Parade" star newsreel series from 1932. He Sings: Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear


Click Here: See Bing Sing From 1932

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I was perusing through Brian Rust's Popular Music Discography yesterday under Bing Crosby and wondered aloud if the Victor test pressing of the Rhythm Boys performing a medley of songs on 4-29-1927 existed at all? This would be quite a find.