Bing Crosby and Eddie Lang Dinah and Please 1932

Excerpt from "The Big Broadcast of 1932" with Bing Crosby singing and scatting "Dinah" and "Please" with guitar accompaniment by Eddie Lang. Lennie Hayton is audible on piano.

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Music

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• jazz
• twenties
• bix
• venuti
• lang
• django
• trumbauer
• vaudeville
• movies
• music
• hall
• swing

[Diosprometheus]

We know Crosby was great, but Eddie Lang was a great guitarist who died too young. Bing did ever thing he could to save his friend but that was not to be. Eddie was a pioneering Jazz guitarist who would have found his own place in history but for his untimely death.

[harryoakley]

@Diosprometheus Bing did not "do everything to save his friend". Actually there was nothing Bing could do when Lang died following a tonsillectomy which Bing had advised Eddie to have.

[wayneiac1]

It's a crime that this movie isn't available on DVD! It's one of the best of its kind.

[TheNewSwingMachine]

It's an absolute rarity.

Thanks for posting it.

Brewsby

[mayonaise33]

i do prefer the vocal works of the younger bing crosby.

[Diosprometheus]

@harryoakley Thank you. It is true that Eddie died following a tonsillectomy and that Bing told Eddie that he should get it. It is not clear why he died but it is believed the doctor butchered the operation and caused some kind of bleeding. They were still friends and Bing was deeply hurt by his death. Bing did not cause the death. Eddie thought that the operation would help him get speaking roles in films. Apparently his voice was not something the movie makers wanted at the time. I

[zthetha]

My dad loved Crosby and used to do a fair impersonation. I loved Elvis and my dad used to do a terrible impersonation - but I now realize that I owe him a lot for letting me listen to these old timers - Dorsey, Teagarden, Lang and the much underrated and hugely gifted Al Bowley who play great guitar which my dad's generation considered an easy, second rate instrument. - if they could see things now! The guitar is not only the most popular instrument on the planet but the most difficult to master

[ishouldntbeyoutubing]

@dwright681 The implication is that Bing clocked her.

[FranknToThePoint]

The shoe shine guy is a great percussionist. This is something.

[IMNOTAPOLICEOFFICER]

now i see what johnny cash means in that song "get rhythm"

[edisone1]

Bing was the first 'cool' white guy. Really, no kidding.