Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby’s Biographer Gary Giddins: “He really became Father Christmas”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48n2fTgWH4?rel=0&start=618

Watch interviews with Bing Crosby's daughter, nephew, biographer, and even Michael Bublé on how Crosby changed the music industry and greatly influenced Frank Sinatra. At the 13:11 mark in the video, Gary Giddins, Crosby's biographer, talks about how Crosby accidentally began the tradition of selling Christmas music to the public around October with "White Christmas."

Bing Crosby passed away on October 14, 1977.

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