Bob Crosby papers, 1940-1971.

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Bob Crosby papers, 1940-1971.

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The Bob Crosby papers include audio cassette tapes; correspondence (1952-1969); films of shows (1953-1955); music; music outlines; photo negatives, phonograph records (promotional and others); photographs with Jack Benny, Bing Crosby etc. Also included in the collection are play outlines, a script for his television show, recording tapes, including a sound recording with the Andrews Sisters (1948), a scrapbook from a horse show where his band played (1954).

14.27 cubic ft. (23 boxes + 1 envelope)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6930013

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Crosby, Bob, 1913-1993

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Bob Crosby (1913-1993) was a jazz band leader and radio show personality from the 1930s to the 1950s. During the 1970s there was a revival of interest in big band jazz and he worked for Disney studios and toured the midwest during that time. Not a musician himself, he started his first band in 1935, when he took over the Ben Pollack orchestra as front man. The band enjoyed considerable success until the start of World War II when Crosby joined the Marines, assigned to the Special Services (enter...