When Bing Crosby burst onto the music scene in the 1920s, he was an immediate sensation. His first set of singles, which began to drop in 1927, included a number one hit in the USA (My Blue Heaven).

Bing Crosby started his career as a radio singer in the early 1930s, but by the end of the decade, he had become one of the top movie stars in Hollywood. Although his early films centered around one ...