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Best known as the easygoing front man for Bob Crosby's Bobcats, a rollicking octet that was the cornerstone of a larger Dixieland band, Crosby sought during his career to distinguish himself from his older brother. The couple had seven children: 1895—1975 , Everett 1896—1966 , Ted 1900—1973 , Harry 1903—1977, popularly known as , Catherine 1905—1974 , Mary Rose 1907—1990 , and George Robert, popularly known as Bob 1913—1993. According to Benny writer Milt Josefsberg, the issue was budget.

Bauduc had joined in and then began playing on the strings of Haggart's bass with his drumsticks while Haggart fingered the notes. Bob Crosby Crosby was born in Spokane, Washington, to bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby 1871—1950 and Catherine Harrigan 1873—1964, affectionately known as Kate , the daughter of a builder from in. The couple had seven children: 1895—1975 , Everett 1896—1966 , Ted 1900—1973 , Harry 1903—1977, popularly known as , Catherine 1905—1974 , Mary Rose 1907—1990 , and George Robert, popularly known as Bob 1913—1993. Crosby attended , but he dropped out to seek a career in music.

Notifications - He was able to swap jokes competently with Benny, including humorous references to his brother Bing's wealth and his string of losing racehorses. Bob Crosby, who rose to fame in the 1930s as a suave, swinging bandleader--and kid brother to that more famous Crosby, Bing--died Tuesday of cancer at a nursing home in Torrey Pines.

Bob Crosby, who rose to fame in the 1930s as a suave, swinging bandleader--and kid brother to that more famous Crosby, Bing--died Tuesday of cancer at a nursing home in Torrey Pines. Best known as the easygoing front man for Bob Crosby's Bobcats, a rollicking octet that was the cornerstone of a larger Dixieland band, Crosby sought during his career to distinguish himself from his older brother. I could stand between saxophonist Eddie Miller and our audience and make what he was about to say on his horn comprehensible to the people. By the time he graduated from Gonzaga University intent upon a show business career, Bing was already a well-known entertainer. Bob went directly from college to the Anson Weeks orchestra in the Bob Crosbys Bobcats 1930s, and within a year booking agent Tommy Rockwell got him a spot in a new band being organized around the Dorsey brothers. But the experience was painful. The beginning of the third night, Tommy Dorsey came over to me and in his very tender way said, 'Look, this is the best band in the whole world and you ain't the best Crosby singer. He didn't sing or play an instrument, but Bob Crosbys Bobcats expansive stage presence made the most of the band's talented musicians, and soon the band's Big-Band Dixieland sound was getting top billing on radio shows and at hotels, theaters and ballrooms. Such jazz names as pianist Joe Sullivan and vocalist Doris Day worked with the band. Marines, where he served with distinction, leading a service band in the Pacific. After the war, he worked mainly as a daytime radio host, moving in the 1950s to daytime television. He headlined an Australian nighttime talk show, tried the car-rental business in Hawaii and fronted various reincarnations of the Bobcats during the 1960s before moving back to Southern California in the 1970s to settle in La Jolla. Meanwhile, he had become a celebrity in his own right. The press tracked every rough spot in his long marriage and followed the lives of each of the five children who survive him. Still, he confided in a 1971 interview, he and Bing never became close. He was the last of the seven Crosby siblings to die.