Ron, It's heartening to know that you are so vigourous and successful in flying the flag and having such success with the youngsters.

 

Well done, Graham.

Well, I must say that I like Plymouth. Saturday night hearing Bing in the restaurant then today, Sunday walking along the waterfront there was a caravan that sold drinks and snacks. Lone and behold if our man wasn't singing "It Had To You'. I congratulated the young lass on her music. A couple of hours later walking past her van there was Bing singing 'Where The Blue Of The Night'. Once again I congratulated her. Asked about it and it was a compilation CD with artists. So, nice to hear Bing getting an airing.

Just finished our second Veteran's Day concert.
Last year we did a Bing & Bob skit - different coloured socks, (they were 'dark' as Bing told Gary) golf club etc.
This year we did a skit supposedly January 1947. Once again I was Bing . Bob and we also had Dottie and Ken Carpenter. Later on we also had The Andrews Sisters.
It was well received and we had some veterans in attendance. also had 'The Sounds of Swing' Band.

In today's "Chronicle" (Saturday-13th. Dec), on the history page, is the following snippet.
'Swing with Bing' at the Fox Theatre.
In 1936,  Bing Crosby's movie, "Pennies From Heaven", opened at the Centralia Fox Theatre. "Swing with Bing as he rolls down the open road with a guitar and a yen for a gal who done him wrong," the advertisement in The Centralia Daily Chronicle read.
"The Gayest, Grandest and Fun Show of the New Season."
By the way there is a local radio station that has Bing Crosby in concrete (like Graumann's in Los Angeles). Believe it is dated from about 1937. Tacoma is only about 35 miles away.

This site will do.
Go to www.bbc.co.uk and scroll and there is a story about Frank Sinatra - was he dangerous? Anyway, Bing receives a nice mention in the article.
Don't know how long it will stay there.

Ron Field wrote:

This site will do.
Go to www.bbc.co.uk and scroll and there is a story about Frank Sinatra - was he dangerous? Anyway, Bing receives a nice mention in the article.
Don't know how long it will stay there.

Ron I believe that this is the item that you are pointing to. This link should take you straight there. 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151214-frank-sinatra-at-100-was-ol-blue-eyes-really-dangerous

 

Come 2nd. August it will be the 60th. Anniversary of having met Bing in Seattle. Bing was the Marshall for the 1957 Seattle Seafarers Carnival. Then I ran into him the following day (Saturday) waiting in a store doorway before the start of the parade. Then later that day I first met Anita on a Greyhound bus. I was travelling from Seattle to Kelso, the bus stopped in Tacoma and I jumped off to take a photo of the street. as Bing was born in Tacoma (the house is still there with a plaque on the step). Back into the depot and the bus had left. Caught up with it in Olympia and Anita was sitting in the seat I had occupied. She refused to move (told her my coat etc was above her) so I sat next to her.
Dangerous business sitting next to strange females (she was only 17 and me an old 23).
Later on I met Bob and then Larry.
A diamond jubilee.

Congrats Ron and Anita, but is there a mistype here?

60 years ago today!

Graham Pascoe wrote:

Ah Ron, it's 'Love on a Greyhound bus',  - - - I wonder if Bing sang it.

No, but it appeared on Bing's first Philco broadcast, sung by Lina Romay, the then resident supporting artist, accompanied by JST, 16 October 1946.
 

Morton is on State highway 12.
If you didn't notice it is east of I5