"The Most Heard Human Voice"
AST week Dr. Canby told us something about. the voices Americans listen to. Since he was discussifig literature he did not mention Bing Crosby. But the Americans, who are inexhaustibly inventive in finding new titles and unusual distinctions for their national idols, have just succeeded in putting Crosby in a class all by himself, His, they have decided, is the "most heard human voice." There is a formidable statistical
case to De made out for this claim, the | significance of which is a matter of opinion. It has been estima‘ted that Crosby has about 75,000,000 re‘cords to his total Sales credit. "White Christmas," alone, hes had a sale of
1,700,000; "Silent Night" 1,500,000; and "Sunday, Monday or Always" and "Pistol Packin’ Momma" over 1,000,000 each. This is impressive enough, ut not to the extent of justifying the title which has been bestowed on his voice. On top of this we are told that Crosby programmes are outstandingly the most constant feature of the annual output of 80,000 hours of recorded music broadcast in America. Even this may not be an adequate computation, "colossal as it seems; it omits the number of broadcasting hours c med in New Zealand, and elsewhere, each year by Crosby recordings. There is unabated demand for these trom listeners.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Page 7
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