15/6/2020 9:56 am  #1


Bing in 'Hollywood on Parade', 1932

I cannot remember ever having seen this before and I would very much like to hear from people who know more about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIOQqvzj9o

 

15/6/2020 1:56 pm  #2


Re: Bing in 'Hollywood on Parade', 1932

frans wrote:

I cannot remember ever having seen this before and I would very much like to hear from people who know more about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIOQqvzj9o

Frans, There is quite a bit within the notes below the screen (just click on "Show More")
Details of the background are given on the "Bing" magazine website here -
http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/A-Z.htm#H

 - scroll down to the title "Hollywood On Parade"

I fear I cannot claim to know much else except that they were numbered in a system that ran from A1 to at least A13 and B1 to at least B13. As you will see Bing was in four, singing in three.

There could have been more. This one is A2 (shown in bottom left and right corners of the opening screen),

In the 1990s a video tape was issued with a collection of them but I don't know how complete it was. 
 

Last edited by Richard Baker (15/6/2020 9:45 pm)

 

16/6/2020 7:54 am  #3


Re: Bing in 'Hollywood on Parade', 1932

Thank you Frans. I'd not seen it before. My research suggests that it was shown at the Empire Theatre in Sydney, Australia, for four days in April 1933, one month after The Big Broadcast was screened there for one week.

 

16/6/2020 8:47 pm  #4


Re: Bing in 'Hollywood on Parade', 1932

Interesting as Bing singing “Auf Weidersen”(?) in this short and also sang it in one of his shorts but didn’t actually record it and it isn’t too bad a song either.
Back in the land of Aus I have an LP with that on it and several other songs he never recorded for whatever reason. Why didn’t he make commercial recordings, I wonder.

 

18/6/2020 7:29 am  #5


Re: Bing in 'Hollywood on Parade', 1932

Thank you for your information, Richard. I must have missed that video in the 1990s. No matter, finding something 'new' now and then keeps the interest going. :-)

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