Great to hear Crosby talk about Russ Columbo, an all but forgotten singer. He died tragically when a friend lit a match on an old antique pistol and was shot. He composed the songs "Prisoner of Love", "You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)," "Too Beautiful For Words," "When You're in Love", "My Love", "Let's Pretend There's a Moon," and "Hello Sister."
Jack Ellsworth on WALK 1370 Long Island NY would talk about and play Russ and spoke highly of him. By the way, your post did not show up under the video, please post you comments again, thanks! Stevations
Tiny Tim remembered Russ Columbo in much the same way Bing did, as somebody who would have been a big star. Tiny even made a tribute album to Columbo, called Prisoner of Love, which he considered to be his finest album.
@@briteness : That is interesting, since Tiny Tim was born in 1932. Columbo died in 1934, after being hospitalized for a week from a gunshot wound. I actually have a reprint (from off microfilm) of the New York Times reporting on this incident and his subsequent death). Nice that Tim did a tribute, though Crosby was a pallbearer at Russ Columbo's funeral while Tim was a toddler. Still very few people remember who he was despite his growing popularity in the late 20's and early 30's. "Prisoner of Love" is probably his best remembered song, due to numerous covers by many artists including Frank Sinatra.
absolute bullshit . the beatles alone have well OVER a billion sales . elvis is up in that range . bing was the shit pre 1950 .... but his sales were not more than those 3 juggernauts combined . what an asinine thing to assert .
I loved watching Joe's show back in the 70's. It is one of the places that helped me discover old classic films and performers. Saw him interview the likes of Bing as well as his stories about the Jolsons and Cantors of the world. Love Joe.
Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 - September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words."
The beatles sold a billion records and wrote most of them; Bing may have sold more especially in USA. Bing deserves to still be popular. His records need remastering and re-releasing especially his final albums recorded in Uk. John Lennon was a Bing fan and wrote Please , please me, inspired by Bing.
Just found out last week through my family genealogy that Bing’s first wife Dixie Lee is my 3rd cousin. Just never know what you can learn about your family. 😉
Still a handsome man in his 70's, hard to believe he died not long after? The man who started it all, and paved the way for the Sinatra's & Presley's, but at his best, he blew them all out of the water. Son Gary trashed his memory in that book, but at the end of his life, took it all back. Bing, like the rest of us wasn't perfect, but he was a decent and humble human being, John Wayne once said he'd never heard him utter a bad word against anyone!
I to have read that his son recanted some of what he wrote in his book and was actually planning to release a tribute album to his father before he passed away. Unfortunately the damage had been done and Bing's reputation has suffered over the years. I found it truly amazing to read about the amount of people Bing helped out and looked after during his many years in show business, from acquaintances, friends other celebrities, family members and even total strangers. No he wasn't perfect but I agree that he was a decent and humble man and an extremely talented one. Didn't one of his best friends say he goes his own way and minds his own business, and that is what some people didn't understand about him? Never had the big entourage, never talked himself up and never played the big star. I think he's wonderful.
Chris Wright that story about how that duet came about is quite fascinating! Bowie and Bing created that duet on the cuff only hours before they filmed it.
Entertainment is just not the same in the 21st century like the 20th century had. I humbly and personally believe that entertainment had already reached its peak level of energy and raw excitement variety during the 19th and 20th centuries in this World.
@@purefoldnz3070 Your ignorance is astounding...His eldest son who wrote the book was reinterviewed in 9 hours of taped conversations. He was challenged on some of his accusations, he couldn't remember writing what he did because he had been drunk at the time. The interviewer then contacted the co author who explained how the book was pieced together. Maybe look up Bing's latest books written by a brilliant guy who spent decades researching, who interviewed hundreds of people who knew Bing, including his two sons Gary and Phillip. Interesting that a lot of misinformation and half truths were dispelled. The two books that damaged Bing's reputation, his sons..which was explained about...the other which was completely debunked when investigated. Then maybe look up Bing's daughter who explains Gary explaining to her why he wrote what he did..appalling. Then look up the defensive quotes his other children gave when the book was released. Bing was no saint but definitely no monster. He loved those boys.
@@mitzymoo3151 if you love someone you dont beat your children period. Hell Lindsay and Dennis later killed themselves after becoming alcoholics. There's nothing worse than defending someone like Bing. Even if were exaggerated as you say, he still openly beat his children. Quote from Bing Crosby in 1959: "I guess I didn't do very well bringing my boys up. I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention."
Who cares who sold more albums....Elvis, Beatles, Beach Boys, Der Bingle, all had their time and place. All if them were just very human people, doing what they wanted to do. Sing. For fun and profit. Big deal. There are a LOT of people who can sing better than all of them combined, but chose not to. Some of those big stars were not very nice people. Sex addictions, drug addictions. The list goes on and on. Enjoy what you enjoy. Bing will ALWAYS be a Christmas crooner to me.....perhaps the best kind of crooner of them all.
It reminds me of two folks who, in their prime, might not have ever met; Crosby was the biggest star around and Franklin was a local NYC host. But at that stage of their careers, they had the time for each other and frankly, there weren't many of their group still around and at least Franklin knew some of the same people that Bing Crosby knew.
I cherish Joe's way of random pausing, even right in the middle of the title of a new feature he's plugging. And there are worlds in the difference between Bing the yarn-spinner, the charming deliverer of lore, and Joe the information age man before there was an information age, ever churning and clicking away.
Growing up in the fifties, when you were kept home and sick, this was the guy you watched, in NYC! He was chicken soup and the bat shit stuff there giving kids now but Joe was the real deal!
The opening "Best of the Joe Franklin Show" notice was V/O'd by Phil Tonken, who'd been with Channel 9 at the point Joe joined the station in 1962, up to Phil's 1989 retirement.
On Channel 9 WOR, a local late night show that aired a 1:00 AM and was only seen in the NYC metro area, and you think Crosby who could go on the Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, Barbara Walters or any talk show in the world whenever he wanted "got paid very handsomely" to be on The Joe Franklin Show.... It always says more about people who make such comments that they are projecting more about how they act than the person they're making such comments about.
Well said. And Bing may have enjoyed making the money but he also enjoyed sharing his good fortune over the years with so many friends, acquaintances and charities as well as doing endless performances and benefits to raise money for many causes. He was apparently extremely generous and very caring in helping out family and friends and other performers when they were having a hard time, but was very reluctant to be acknowledged for this help and quite often organised things through a third party because he was uncomfortable in accepting the gratitude and thanks that would have been forthcoming.
Yes- and several years ago, she and Joe tried to drum up interest in a Bing Crosby movie biography.....with little or no interest from anyone they tried to "pitch" the idea to.
Barry I. Grauman the problem was that just too many years went by and most of Bing's audience was already deceased and the younger generation barely knew who he was!
I miss all those wonderful Christmas Specials...today liberaturd hollywood would never put a Christmas special on the air.....with people that really are Christians!
Read his son's book, Going My Own Way by Gary Crosby. This man was a monster to his sons, one committed suicide. Extreme physical and emotional violence and abuse. No excuse for it.
well I miss Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dick Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle, & Jack Benny
ME TOO...
Don't forget Phyllis Diller and now Jerry Lewis
@@spectrumlocalb191 Jerry was about the last one from that era, unless we count 103 yr old Olivia DeHavilland!
Liz Blue Same here!
Add Lucille Ball and Phyllis Diller definitely to the list.
Great to hear Crosby talk about Russ Columbo, an all but forgotten singer. He died tragically when a friend lit a match on an old antique pistol and was shot. He composed the songs "Prisoner of Love", "You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)," "Too Beautiful For Words," "When You're in Love", "My Love", "Let's Pretend There's a Moon," and "Hello Sister."
Jack Ellsworth on WALK 1370 Long Island NY would talk about and play Russ and spoke highly of him. By the way, your post did not show up under the video, please post you comments again, thanks! Stevations
Tiny Tim remembered Russ Columbo in much the same way Bing did, as somebody who would have been a big star. Tiny even made a tribute album to Columbo, called Prisoner of Love, which he considered to be his finest album.
@@briteness : That is interesting, since Tiny Tim was born in 1932. Columbo died in 1934, after being hospitalized for a week from a gunshot wound. I actually have a reprint (from off microfilm) of the New York Times reporting on this incident and his subsequent death). Nice that Tim did a tribute, though Crosby was a pallbearer at Russ Columbo's funeral while Tim was a toddler. Still very few people remember who he was despite his growing popularity in the late 20's and early 30's. "Prisoner of Love" is probably his best remembered song, due to numerous covers by many artists including Frank Sinatra.
He was such a sharp guy. Quick and funny. No wonder he was such a big star.
Bing, Dean, Frank, my how times flies. The good'ole days.
Wrong! BC sold more records than the Beatles, Elvis and Beach boys ... COMBINED!! This is true.
YES!
People don't realize that in the first half of the 20th century, Bing was IT.
I think even Bing himself was too simple and free spirited to realize he was IT for multiple decades
absolute bullshit . the beatles alone have well OVER a billion sales . elvis is up in that range . bing was the shit pre 1950 .... but his sales were not more than those 3 juggernauts combined . what an asinine thing to assert .
He might be getting it mixed up with hit records
I love hearing him talk - he is so melodic, even in his speaking voice!
Bing was quite knowledeable about Russ Columbo. Listen to early recordings by both. There are many similarities in their styles.
Amazingly good interview. Bing is so self effacing. And that makes me admire him even more!
First time I had seen this interview on Bing.
Good interview.
I got one of those "player-back machines" on my phone.
I loved watching Joe's show back in the 70's. It is one of the places that helped me discover old classic films and performers. Saw him interview the likes of Bing as well as his stories about the Jolsons and Cantors of the world. Love Joe.
Truly Crosby was the greatest recording artist of the 20th century. It was nice to hear him mention Russ Colombo too.
Although, Bobby Darin blew away several of Bing's earlier recordings. Case in point: Mack the Knife
I agree. Colombo was cool.
he's an ass
Since the Joe Franklin Show was on late night, when nothing else good was on, we would actually watch him.
This was recorded no earlier than September 1987, because WOR-TV changed its call signal to WWOR-TV in April and had adopted that 9 logo that month.
beautiful, thanks for posting and missing Joe Franklin today
billthestinker I wonder what happened to Joe's memorabilia? They could make a museum about Joe and his era. I wonder what celebs attended his funeral
THE Crooner!!
Gran voz !!
I hate I missed out on being around during my favorite era of music. I would take bing Crosby over Justin Beiber any day
Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 - September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words."
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The beatles sold a billion records and wrote most of them; Bing may have sold more especially in USA. Bing deserves to still be popular. His records need remastering and re-releasing especially his final albums recorded in Uk. John Lennon was a Bing fan and wrote Please , please me, inspired by Bing.
Bing was a legend! Russ Columbo...was knocked off!
Surprisingly, Bing doesn't mention Eddie Lang who he worked with closely from the late 20s to the early 30s
columbo's mother lived 10 years after his death. not a year and a half.
Just found out last week through my family genealogy that Bing’s first wife Dixie Lee is my 3rd cousin. Just never know what you can learn about your family. 😉
That is awesome. Dixie was a beautiful lady inside and out.
An intro to an old show that introduced a new show to reminisce about a previous show that included an old interview. So Joe.
Still a handsome man in his 70's, hard to believe he died not long after? The man who started it all, and paved the way for the Sinatra's & Presley's, but at his best, he blew them all out of the water. Son Gary trashed his memory in that book, but at the end of his life, took it all back. Bing, like the rest of us wasn't perfect, but he was a decent and humble human being, John Wayne once said he'd never heard him utter a bad word against anyone!
I to have read that his son recanted some of what he wrote in his book and was actually planning to release a tribute album to his father before he passed away. Unfortunately the damage had been done and Bing's reputation has suffered over the years. I found it truly amazing to read about the amount of people Bing helped out and looked after during his many years in show business, from acquaintances, friends other celebrities, family members and even total strangers. No he wasn't perfect but I agree that he was a decent and humble man and an extremely talented one. Didn't one of his best friends say he goes his own way and minds his own business, and that is what some people didn't understand about him? Never had the big entourage, never talked himself up and never played the big star. I think he's wonderful.
This interview of Bing is from 1976
Miss him so much...
Bing and David Bowie at Christmas.
Chris Wright that story about how that duet came about is quite fascinating! Bowie and Bing created that duet on the cuff only hours before they filmed it.
Entertainment is just not the same in the 21st century like the 20th century had. I humbly and personally believe that entertainment had already reached its peak level of energy and raw excitement variety during the 19th and 20th centuries in this World.
What a great interview. I'd like to see more.
Nothing on TV today measures up to Joe Franklin. A class act.
I knew Joe personally and he was far from a class act lol.
Bing Crosby one of the all time greats. He is missed but remembered always.
one of the worst human beings
@@purefoldnz3070What absolute BS. He has been vindicated of a lot of the rubbish written about him. Maybe look it up.
@@mitzymoo3151 nope he hasnt. What is wrong with you? Stop trying to defend this monster.
@@purefoldnz3070 Your ignorance is astounding...His eldest son who wrote the book was reinterviewed in 9 hours of taped conversations. He was challenged on some of his accusations, he couldn't remember writing what he did because he had been drunk at the time. The interviewer then contacted the co author who explained how the book was pieced together. Maybe look up Bing's latest books written by a brilliant guy who spent decades researching, who interviewed hundreds of people who knew Bing, including his two sons Gary and Phillip. Interesting that a lot of misinformation and half truths were dispelled. The two books that damaged Bing's reputation, his sons..which was explained about...the other which was completely debunked when investigated. Then maybe look up Bing's daughter who explains Gary explaining to her why he wrote what he did..appalling. Then look up the defensive quotes his other children gave when the book was released. Bing was no saint but definitely no monster. He loved those boys.
@@mitzymoo3151 if you love someone you dont beat your children period. Hell Lindsay and Dennis later killed themselves after becoming alcoholics. There's nothing worse than defending someone like Bing. Even if were exaggerated as you say, he still openly beat his children.
Quote from Bing Crosby in 1959: "I guess I didn't do very well bringing my boys up. I think I failed them by giving them too much work and discipline, too much money, and too little time and attention."
Bing had the greatest time feel.....what a class act!!!
See how Joe shut up and let Bing run with the record. Let the guest speak. Great interview
Bing singing a few bars of the songs on the album that he is holding is just wonderful. What a treasure. Thanks for posting this.
Lampshade51 that was wonderful... And Bing still remembered many of the words from songs that he recorded decades earlier! Very cool indeed!
Who cares who sold more albums....Elvis, Beatles, Beach Boys, Der Bingle, all had their time and place. All if them were just very human people, doing what they wanted to do. Sing. For fun and profit. Big deal. There are a LOT of people who can sing better than all of them combined, but chose not to. Some of those big stars were not very nice people. Sex addictions, drug addictions. The list goes on and on. Enjoy what you enjoy. Bing will ALWAYS be a Christmas crooner to me.....perhaps the best kind of crooner of them all.
It reminds me of two folks who, in their prime, might not have ever met; Crosby was the biggest star around and Franklin was a local NYC host. But at that stage of their careers, they had the time for each other and frankly, there weren't many of their group still around and at least Franklin knew some of the same people that Bing Crosby knew.
Man, Thanks for these posts... The Good Ol' Channel 9! -RIP Joe! 1/25/15
What a pleasant man. Love him.
I cherish Joe's way of random pausing, even right in the middle of the title of a new feature he's plugging.
And there are worlds in the difference between Bing the yarn-spinner, the charming deliverer of lore, and Joe the information age man before there was an information age, ever churning and clicking away.
Growing up in the fifties, when you were kept home and sick, this was the guy you watched, in NYC! He was chicken soup and the bat shit stuff there giving kids now but Joe was the real deal!
I enjoyed this!
I just realized Bing Crosby might be a socially-acceptable source of non-renewable carbon-based fuel. No? Ok...back to Andy Dick.
bing was a kool taurus the bull.
I was good friends with joe he was such a kind man l miss you Frank!!!
Inspired by the song - Please lend your ears to my pleas....
The opening "Best of the Joe Franklin Show" notice was V/O'd by Phil Tonken, who'd been with Channel 9 at the point Joe joined the station in 1962, up to Phil's 1989 retirement.
Class.
Nobody like this guy today, more's the pity
Y,
Love Bing Crosby!
Kathryn Crosby, Bing's wife.
Bing was a fantastic story teller, IF given the chance.
How on earth did Joe Franklin get Bing? Bing must have been a fan of the show or something.
On Channel 9 WOR, a local late night show that aired a 1:00 AM and was only seen in the NYC metro area, and you think Crosby who could go on the Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, Barbara Walters or any talk show in the world whenever he wanted "got paid very handsomely" to be on The Joe Franklin Show.... It always says more about people who make such comments that they are projecting more about how they act than the person they're making such comments about.
Well said. And Bing may have enjoyed making the money but he also enjoyed sharing his good fortune over the years with so many friends, acquaintances and charities as well as doing endless performances and benefits to raise money for many causes. He was apparently extremely generous and very caring in helping out family and friends and other performers when they were having a hard time, but was very reluctant to be acknowledged for this help and quite often organised things through a third party because he was uncomfortable in accepting the gratitude and thanks that would have been forthcoming.
Bing left the record behind when he left.
Yes- and several years ago, she and Joe tried to drum up interest in a Bing Crosby movie biography.....with little or no interest from anyone they tried to "pitch" the idea to.
Barry I. Grauman the problem was that just too many years went by and most of Bing's audience was already deceased and the younger generation barely knew who he was!
Joe talked over Bing..too much
may he rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us
nearly 3 minutes before Bing speaks.
I remember Joe on WOR back in the 70's
1976 I believe.
Bing kept his baritone voice right to the end.
There it is,,, class,, dignified and dashing!!! What a man,, what a wonderful man!!!
400 million Records.😱
Your just jealous Stan!!! 😅
RIP Joe Franklin.
RIP :(
I love Bing Crosby
Bing so humble!
It's a shame Bing Crosby had a reputation for being a wife Basha he did adopt many children
He never did anything like that...where did you get your BS info😂🙄
Miss him so much...
maybe Karen Black (???)
Who's the girl sitting to the left. Looks like Tuesday Weld
Mike Newton that's Bing's wife, Kathryn Crosby!
he was ok....
Thanks very much.
Der Bingle! RIP
Father OMalley
Pure Class!!
I miss all those wonderful Christmas Specials...today liberaturd hollywood would never put a Christmas special on the air.....with people that really are Christians!
Read his son's book, Going My Own Way by Gary Crosby. This man was a monster to his sons, one committed suicide. Extreme physical and emotional violence and abuse. No excuse for it.
Now, read his other sons and daughters... They've debunked almost all of Gary's accusations.
Bing the Batterer, .... traumatized his sons to suicide,....
You are sooooo misinformed and wrong that is pathetic.
That's right Peter beat them with a sack of sweet Valencia oranges don't leave a bruise and let's them know who's boss