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“If I’m going to get by in pictures, it’s going to be as a singer, with about as much acting as you would expect from a guy standing in front of a microphone.” –Bing Crosby Bing, or Harry Lillis Crosby Jr., was the fourth of seven children born to brewery bookkeeper Harry Lillis Crosby Sr.…

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On this date in 1903, the American singer Bing Crosby was born. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. Here are 10 facts about him: His real name was Harry Lillis Crosby and he was born in in Tacoma, Washington, the fourth of seven children. He got the name Bing from a comic feature in a local paper, called The Bingville Bugle, a parody of hillbilly newspapers. The young Crosby found this hilariously funny and would giggle uncontrollably when reading it. A…

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Tacoma may not be Nashville or Detroit, but it's got its fair share of music history. The argument could be made, in fact, that the Grit City is the figurative birthplace of garage rock, and it's inarguably the literal birthplace of one of America's most beloved music celebrities

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