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Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.1

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Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.1
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Gary Giddins agreed to write a 300-page Bing Crosby book in three years so he could get back to Duke Ellington. That was more than twenty-five years ago. He started out half-believing the hatchet jobs and found instead a man the people he interviewed kept calling the nicest, kindest and most generous they ever worked with, a Republican who was ahead of …

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