Bob Crosby Net Worth is
$1.3 Million

Mini Biography

Bob Crosby was created on August 25, 1913 in Spokane, Washington, among seven children given birth to to Harry Lowe Crosby, a bookkeeper in a Tacoma brewery, and his wife, Kate Harrigan Crosby. Bob was a decade more youthful than his sibling Harry, who as Bing Crosby, accomplished popularity as the utmost popular singer from the 1st half from the 20th hundred years. After matriculating at Gonzaga University or college, Bob adopted his older sibling in to the music business, even though he never accomplished Bing’s degree of popularity (few do), he produced a good profession for himself as leading man for just one from the leading white jazz rings from the 1930s. The band-leader Anson Weeks offered Bob a singing job in 1931. Possessed of just a good however, not magnificent voice, Bob experienced a means with viewers, which helped make him successful. In 1934, he was employed from the Dorsey Brothers, whom he continuing to sing with until 1935, when he was presented with the opportunity to front a fresh band that were resurrected from your ashes of Ben Pollack’s aged orchestra. The users of Ben Pollack’s music group had been remaining stranded in NEW YORK when Pollack quit. After splitting up, the music group regrouped without Pollack in NY in 1934 with saxophonist Gil Rodin, Pollack’s previous right hand guy, as innovator. They performed for Crimson Nichols around the “Kellogg University Prom” radio display, and subsequently documented beneath the name of their vocalist, Clark Randall. A 12 months later, the music group ditched Randall to attempt to make it independently. When Rodin made the decision he didn’t desire to be the front guy for the music group, he offered Jack port Teagarden the work as innovator. Contracted to Paul Whiteman, Teagarden dropped the present, and agent Corky O’Keefe recommended three alternatives: vocalist Johnnie Davis of Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Whiteman trumpeter Harry “Goldie” Goldfield, and Bob Crosby. Rodin experienced met and loved Crosby, and he was provided the positioning. The Bob Crosby Orchestra was offered with Rodin, Crosby as well as the Rockwell-O’Keefe Reservation Company as owners. Rodin continued to be the guiding power behind the music group. Ironically, Bob Crosby was among the least important members of his own orchestra, yet he was alert to this and had simply no qualms approximately ceding a lot of the solo time for you to the band’s talented sidemen. The Bob Crosby Orchestra, and its own combo aspect group, the Bob Felines, became one of the biggest jazz bands ever. Crosby ended up being the perfect entrance man and demonstrated favored by the audience. An agreeable man, Crosby reputed and respected his musicians rather than interfered with Rodin’s working from the band. Although in the mid- to later-1930s, when swing was ruler, Dixieland was considered old-fashioned by many youthful hipsters who lionized Benny Goodman, Crosby’s music group fueled a revival of the brand new Orleans sound. The tempo section was led by bassist Bob Haggart and drummer Ray Bauduc, the duo who had written “South Rampart Road Parade” and “Big Sound from Winnetka”, the last mentioned which proved a big success. Other music artists in the music group had been Charlie Spivak and Billy Butterfield, and its own performers included Kay Weber and Doris Time. The band’s arranger was Deane Kincaide. Tommy Dorsey raided the Crosby music group in 1938, purloining Kincaide, Spivak, and pianist Yank Lawson. As a result, the band begun to deemphasize Dixieland and only more commercial preparations. With lead vocalist Dorothy Claire, who was simply supported by Helen Ward and Johnny Mercer, the Bob Crosby Orchestra became the highlighted band for the “Camel Caravan” radio plan in 1939. Within a season, the band got still left the Dixieland audio behind, using Paul Weston, Ray Conniff, Henry Mancini and Nelson Riddle as arrangers. The Bob-O-Links, including upcoming Glenn Miller vocalist Johnny Desmond, managed the vocals. Crosby made his film debut in Tempo on the top (1934), performing himself, and debuted simply because an professional in the Jack port Oakie musical-comedy, Collegiate (1936). He previously his initial starring function in the musical, Rookies on Parade (1941). By 1941, the music group had returned to its Dixieland root base, and included Martha Tilton as vocalist. Using the arriving of World Battle II, the draft transported off lots of the band’s essential people, including Rodin and Baudac, and Crosby implemented his older sibling Bing in to the films in 1942. He agreed upon a agreement with Bing’s studio room, Paramount, though he mainly was loaned out to Columbia and General, where he performed the qualified prospects in Kansas Town Kitty (1944), The Performing Sheriff (1944), My Gal Loves Music (1944) and Match Miss Bobby Socks (1944). Eddie Miller was still left responsible for the band, nonetheless it didn’t survive the entire year. Crosby himself was drafted, recognized a Sea Corps commission payment in 1944, and toured the Pacific Movie theater with bands. After being discharged through the Corps, Crosby continued his movie career in the 1940s and 1950s, though today, he simply played himself, eschewing lead and character jobs until his final picture. He shaped a fresh orchestra, known as “The Bobcats”, which emphasized ballads. Crosby would sometimes sing, but mainly he was quite happy with allowing his sidemen play. Crosby as well as the Bobcats were successful on radio and tv. He was the orchestra head for “The Jack port Benny Present” on radio, overtaking from Phil Harris, and on television. He previously his very own daytime Television show, “The Bob Crosby Present”, on CBS from 1953 to 1957. Crosby needed an evening slot machine and, in 1958, NBC place the present on in the evenings being a summer alternative to Perry Como, nonetheless it do badly in the rankings and was canceled. He produced his last film in 1959, costarring in debt Nichols musical-biography, The Five Pennies (1959), to get Danny Kaye. After his Television show was canceled and his movie career found a finish, Bob Crosby centered on a solo career, although he occasionally reformed the Bobcats for concerts and recordings. In the first 1970s, he toured using a bundle orchestra and afterwards played with regional pick-up bands in to the 1980s. Bob Crosby died in La Jolla, California on March 9, 1993 from tumor. Though Bob pretended to discover being the sibling of superstar Bing Crosby amusing, in 1958 it accepted it had been a sore stage. “It got so very bad that whenever somebody asked me what my job was, I utilized to answer immediately Bing Crosby’s sibling”. To jazz aficionados, he’ll always be a lot more than “Bing Crosby’s sibling”, named he’s as leading man for just one of the greatest jazz rings, ever.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Bob Crosby
Died	March 9, 1993, La Jolla, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Singer, Bandleader
Education	Gonzaga University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Marie Grounitz
Children	Cathleen Crosby, Junie Crosby, George Crosby, Stephen Crosby, Christopher Crosby
Parents	Catherine Harrigan, Harry Lincoln Crosby
Siblings	Bing Crosby, Larry Crosby, Ted Crosby, Everett Crosby, Mary Rose Crosby, Catherine Crosby
Movies	The Five Pennies, Two Tickets to Broadway, Meet Miss Bobby Socks, Kansas City Kitty, See Here, Private Hargrove, Presenting Lily Mars, Rookies on Parade, Sis Hopkins, Collegiate, The Singing Sheriff, Let's Make Music
TV Shows	The Bob Crosby Show (1953), The Bob Crosby Show (1958)