Gary Giddins

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940 (2002)

This review originally ran in the San Jose Mercury News: Strange to say, Bing Crosby needs this biography. Other major white male jazz/pop singers who were eclipsed in the rock revolution of the '60s managed to re-emerge. Frank Sinatra's bad-boy behavior kept him hot. Tony Bennett hung with the R...