Crooner-actor-comedian-show biz immortal Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby 119 years ago today. We’re featuring his music all day today on Cladrite Radio, so why not tune in now?

Crooner-actor-comedian-show biz immortal Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby 119 years ago today. We’re featuring his music all day today on Cladrite Radio, so why not tune in now?
Here are 10 things you should know about Phil Harris, born 116 years ago today. He wore many hats—drummer, band leader, singer, comedian, actor and voice-over artist—and enjoyed success in the recording industry, radio, movies and television.
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Here are 10 things you should know about Bing Crosby, born 117 years ago today. His personal life was a mixed bag (to put it mildly), but he was a major figure in the popular culture of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s.
We’ll be featuring Bing’s music all today, so why not tune in right now?
Crooner-actor-comedian-show biz immortal Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby was born 114 years ago today (or thereabouts—there’s some debate about the actual date, though the date now most widely agreed upon is May 3) in Tacoma, Washington. Here are 10 BC Did-You-Knows:
Happy birthday, Bing Crosby, wherever you may be!
One of our favorite aspects of the historic lore of Los Angeles is the novelty architecture that’s long been so closely associated with the city. So we enjoyed this sequence from Stand-In (1937), starring Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard and Joan Blondell.
In this clip, Howard, playing a buttoned-up bean-counter from back east who’s just arrived in L.A. on a mission to oversee a struggling movie studio, is picked up at the train station by a company car. On a memorable ride through the city, he encounters an eatery shaped like a hat (the Brown Derby), a bakery shaped like a windmill (one of the stores in the once-prominent Van de Kamp’s chain), a service station shaped like an airplane, complete with spinning propellers, and several others.
There’s not an establishment in this thirty-plus-second journey that we wouldn’t eagerly patronize, if only someone would perfect a functioning time machine.
Let us know if you have memories of any of these establishments. We’d love to learn more about them.