Biografía

After Judy Garland was fired from MGM about 1950, he was one of the first to offer her work on his radio show to help her out of her financial woes. The two had marvelous chemistry as a comedy duo, and many of these audio recordings still survive today.

Left a clause in his will stating that his sons could not collect their inheritance money until they were 65. They had already been amply taken care of by a trust fund set up by their mother, Dixie Lee, which is truth was totally funded by Bing. All four sons continued to collect monies from that fund until their deaths.

Delayed his marriage to Kathryn Grant until 1957 due to his long affair with Grace Kelly.

His estate was valued at $150 million, making him one of the wealthiest entertainers in Hollywood, along with his friends Bob Hope and Fred MacMurray.

He is the most electronically recorded voice in history.

[on Frank Sinatra] Frank is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the 20th century that have made great strides in reverse.

Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.

[about Elvis Presley] He helped to kill off the influence of me and my contemporaries, but I respect him for that. Because music always has to progress, and no-one could have opened the door to the future like he did.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.