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ING CROSBY is practically an institution in America, almost, you might say, the "Voice of America" itself; and then you could appropriately compose a little requiem for the fate that seems to overtake all such wellestablished things. On his own programme, The Bing Crosby Show, heard over 3YA, Bing thanked Louis Armstrong for giving "a punch to our own little rodomontade here," and certainly the response of the audience to Louis’s rumbling mimicry of Bing Crosby proved that he did just that. The same praise might as easily have been extended to Bob Hope a few weeks earlier for contributing the liveliest, raciest piece to the show. In between times Bing pushes things along with a seemingly endless flow of words whose chief function is that they stop anyone else from saying anything, the audience laughs from a reflex generated by long custom, and the listener toddles off to bed cheated out 6f a promised entertainment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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158The Voice New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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