Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song
Stardust
Wednesday 21 March 2001 on BBC-1

This episode examines the singers and musicians of the Jazz Age. While crooners were touring the United States, gifted musicians like Louis Armstrong were playing jazzy tunes and collaborating to influence pop music.

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Bing was instrumental in the development of taped programming. After choosing to record his radio show for delayed broadcast, he had to find a better way to record than on discs. Bing hired a company that was pioneering an advanced recording techonology and invested $50,000 of his own money in the new Ampax tape recorders. (edit) After announcing that he wanted to pre-record his radio program, NBC sued Bing Crosby. Bing won the suit and quit radio for a year before taking his program to ABC. (edit) At the end of World War II a poll voted Bing Crosby as the person who did the most to boost wartime morale. (edit) Bing left his CBS radio program to host the Kraft Music Hall radio program for NBC. (edit) Bing never learned to read music, but he could memorize a song after hearing it only once. (edit)

Bing: Come on in. It's a bit fresh out there. We may be getting ourselves a bit of a soak (edit) Bing: My golf is woeful but I will never surrender (edit) Bing: (when asked what his epitaph should read) He was an average guy who could carry a tune. (edit) Bing: There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me . . . We spend our lives doing nothing for each other (edit) Bing: I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse (edit)

Star
The Bing Crosby Show Bing Collins	The DuPont Show of the Week Narrator
The Hollywood Palace Host (1964-1970)

Recurring Role
The Ed Sullivan Show Himself, on film	The Hollywood Palace Himself, host

Guest Star
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre The House Next Door George Warren	Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre Bing and Me Himself
Christopher Closeup You Can Change the World	Christopher Closeup Faith, Hope and Hogan
Christopher Closeup The World Starts With Jimmy	Climax One Night Stand Cameo

Other
Climax One Night Stand Story	The Perry Como Show May 3, 1958 Himself (on tape)
The Perry Como Show September 30, 1959 Himself (on record)