Paul, I was a Paymaster and you wouldn't wish Paul Bock to receive your pay etc.

I thought the issue was solved and dropped weeks ago when I last stated my opinion on it.   But thanks for bringing it all up again just to remind us not to speak about what we already stopped speaking about. 

Just finished the chapter on his entertaining in war torn France. Really enjoyed it.
I thought that I had read/heard that both Bing and Fred travelled together into German held territory for a couple of minutes but the book says it was just Bing and his driver.
So good that Gary had acces to Bing's notes.
Well done!

This is well worth watching.
https://livestream.com/flp/Giddins/videos/184655197

Last edited by Malcolm Macfarlane (14/12/2018 4:11 pm)

Thank you Malcolm that was very entertaining and interesting.
Just hope the book goes well and that Gary completes Bing's life before my life is completed.
Thanks again.

Malcolm Macfarlane wrote:

This is well worth watching.
https://livestream.com/flp/Giddins/videos/184655197

WONDERFUL!  Many thanks for sharing.

Along with their "Louis and Bing" sale, Mosaic Records posted an article on their Daily Jazz Gazette on Bing Crosby Swinging on a Star with a picture of the cover and a link to an interview with Giddins. 

Go to the Mosaic website, select Jazz Gazette and scroll down, it is currently the 4th item.
http://www.mosaicrecords.com/
Below is a link to the article (I haven't verified whether it is one that has been linked elsewhere in this thread):
https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2018/10/25/interview-with-bing-crosby-biographer-gary-giddins/

Also, further down on the Mosaic Jazz Gazette, there is a link to Nate Chinen's WBGO 2018 holiday gift guide, since Mosaic's Savory set is on his list. Giddin's biography also makes the list. Below is a link: 
http://www.wbgo.org/post/refurbished-classics-fresh-discoveries-swing-holidays-our-gift-guide#stream/0

Nice to see the book being plugged on jazz sites. Maybe enough copies will sell to keep Gary busy for another 17 years. Hopefully he'll be a bit quicker and we'll all be around to read it.

Last edited by Jim Determan (18/12/2018 7:29 pm)

Great news! Just received this press release.

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.  The awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 23, 2020, during ARSC’s annual conference in Montreal, Canada. Additional information about the conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence can be found at www.arsc-audio.org.
The awardees are as follows.
BEST RESEARCH IN RECORDED ROCK AND POPULAR MUSIC
Best History (tie)
Gary Giddins, Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 (Little, Brown, & Co.)
Marisol Berrios-Miranda, American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music/ Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense (University of Washington Press)

Last edited by Malcolm Macfarlane (17/10/2019 3:44 pm)

That is well-deserved news! Any way to find how the book is selling? That will certainly determine the fate of Volume 3. 

I have experienced over many years how my interest in Bing has brought out a lot of goodness in people who knew how much I was a Bing fan.
Just a week or two ago a man saw a copy of book 1 on Bing that he bought it and presented it to me.
So some person had bought the book and put it in a second hand store. I don’t know how much they paid for it.
I will now have a copy in Australia and a copy in the U.S.

Thanks Malcolm for that great news.