I knew Phil Crosby during the 1960s. He was a sweet, funny, and considerate guy. Alcoholic, of course, and the last time I saw him he was laid out on a pool table somewhere in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, he deserved a much better father than he had. Phil had a good tenor voice and sang in a variety of venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always wished he had had a better family life. Even with a great sense of humor, there was a sadness in him that was palpable.
I can't understand the thinking of any parent who, after divorcing their spouse, not only leaves the spouse behind when they build a new life with another spouse but they leave the prior family as a whole. You don't divorce the children.
Lindsay was a gentleman, we met at a party where I had had too much to drink. He took care of me when I became ill and made sure I got safely home. I know the year as we had snow which was uncommon. 1962
I remember how mainly boys were beaten by their fathers at that time. It was accepted as being disciplined. My brothers were beaten and our generation decided that we would not beat our children. It was time to change the way children were disciplined. 🇿🇦
My mother was upset with this man. I remember her telling me he didn't leave much to his sons, but his last wife's family received everything. These poor boys how they must have suffered.
Money doesn't buy happiness, So sad how he treated his own family,so bad.looking from the outside, he treated everyone else so nice. Two face personality. Sad the some of his sons killed themselves. Then to leave them only 5,000 out of 70 million. So cold
A complicated parent style?! He was a brute. The perfect example of a sadistic abuser; a brute to his family and a wonderful human being when anyone is watching.
Wow, no wonder I never liked Bing Crosby, and for some reason unknown to myself, he always seemed massively creepy to me. I'm so sorry for his sons and others who he hurt😢
My father ran into him in a Copenhagen hotel & said he bumped into him & then was snide about it. To this day, I can never watch him for how awful he was to his family. Being was rude & mean!
I was (guess I still am, although not as much) a huge Old Hollywood buff. I recall reading in many biographies of the actors/actresses of that time how Bing Crosby was very difficult to be around. He was extremely aloof, cold, standoffish, had no close friends, kept everyone at arm's distance and everything about him was superficial. He never got close or warm with anyone. This was a common assessment of him in the many different books I had read over the years.
Bing Crosby left each of his 4 sons from his 1st marriage $5,000 even though he was worth $50 - $70 million when he died. The will specified that if they contested the amount they wouldn't even get that. He was mean to the end.
Never liked him. Didn't like the way he sang (too "scoopy") and something about him rubbed me the wrong way. When I found out how he treated his children, I knew that's what it was.
@@2352anne yes. It really irked me when they re-named a theater in downtown Spokane after him!! I also cannot help but believe that he, like Bob Hope, was an MK Ultra handler.
This is very disjointed and difficult to follow. So many facts randomly thrown together. I never realized that Bing had so many oldest sons. I counted three according to the narration.
Mary Frances was a HALF sister to Bing's oldest 4 boys, with a different mother, and was born in 1959. She was NOT a "contemporary" with the 4 older boys, she was a much younger half-sibling. For pete's sake - get it right!
Reminds me of how Jerry Lewis treated his 1st wife and biological children. Then cut them out of his will and left every thing to his 2nd wife's daughter that he adopted. Lewis was a monster as well. Ozzy from the Ozzy and Hariet was very controlling to his family the Nelsons.
First you say Lindsay was the second son then you say Dennis was the second son...???!!!Then you say Phillip and Gary each as the first son....then Phillip is the twin to Dennis...THIS WHOLE STORY IS A CROCK!!!
I cry for his kids, they endured a father who was a brutal child abuser. A monster who delighted in the torture of his family untill he decided he didn't want that family anymore so he abandoned them , married somebody else and started another family.
When I first read of Bing’s abuse of his sons, I stopped listening to his music & watching his movies out respect for his children and their memory. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Half of this information is wrong, you are mixing up his first and second families and the pictures are not always right you have the wrong photo's with the wrong names.
sad sad sad. His last wife and the "good" children didn't want the older children anywhere in the picture. MOney of course. And they screwed the older kids out of their inheritance.
I sang with Chris Crosby way back in the 80s. He was supposedly the nephew of Bing. He shared how awful Bing was to his boys AND wife. Personally I never liked him as a performer, I felt repulsed, even as a child.
Bing would have suffered as a child too. It is a nightmare that has been happening for millennia! I won’t have children, as I would have inadvertently wrecked their lives as my dad wrecked mine.
Fathers who take out their issues on their kids- especially their sons- has always been a common problem. People just didn't talk about it. My father was a very harsh disciplinarian and we were all afraid of him, but my oldest brother got the worst of it. He is a gentle and kind man in his old age and was always a highly-regarded member of the community, but he had little patience for his own children.
The photos shown in this video are so -oooo misidentified right from the begging. The other thing is that Dennis and Philip were twins. And this is never mentioned. Frequently Photos of Gary are frequently not him, but one of the twins. The whole video is poorly composed.
These kid's grow up with everything in huge houses being expected to be perfect! All while being chased by paparazzi then being expected to look like thier famous parent's & be talented like them! They have no idea what it's like to be poor or middle class! Normal everyday people! They turn to drugs & alcohol! It's all a difficult thing! Beatings with belts that was considered a normal thing back then! I can't say punishments & the way kid's act these days is well out of control!
I met Mr. Crosby while he was a resident in San Mateo, Calif. He always talked to any one on tthe street if they said Hi to him. His second family was also very nice. You didn't get the daughters name from his second marriage not his first correctly. Also you failed to mention that Gary Crosby had a going concern with his Band for many years.
Elvis put one of his sons in a lot of his movies. I think he was trying to be a good friend to him. The way Bing treated his sons might have leaked out to people in the movie industry.
That photo supposedly taken in the Spokane Arena was actually taken in the now demolished Spokane Coliseum that was opened in 1953, long after Bing moved to Los Angeles!!
I knew onof the twins when he was working at Howard's Manner in the 60s , in Palm Springs. He has a very sad life and a cruel upbringing by his father...all 4 of the boys did.
Hurting people, hurting others. We, all must do the healing of all our childhood, wounds. Otherwise, will go around our entirely, lifetime; bleeding our personal wounds and injuring others , along our paths and accruing, Karmic debts with others 🙏😢⚖️🙄🗝️🔥💯🙏❤❤🙏
Suicide should not be used as a tag line to draw people in. These people's lives were way more complicated and their hurt and reason for suicide way more deep than their father's "horrific confession". Just not a good idea to make money and grow your channel off of suicide.
On the Sunday before he died I was a teaching professional at Hartsbourne C.C. I was asked to play a a game with his son Nathaniel. This was an enjoyable afternoon! Only ruined after the round I was interviewed at length by Bing as to Nats golfing ability as to his ambition to become a golf professional! Would he be good enough or would he be an embarrassment? I was none committed and made my excuses and left the club house. He died that week! I shed no tears!
I was telling a coworker how horrible a father Crosby was to his children/sons. she didn’t believe me until she looked it up herself and that was about 15 years ago. He was like a rabbit skunk…imo
I am so glsd this is coming out. I learned this about 15 years ago. I knew it eas true. Being a survivor myself kids with kind parents don't right books about how evil they sre while siblings kill themselves. I read the book, and you can't make up those details unless it happened. I am grateful it's coming out.
When I had found out yrs ago how abusive he was, I stopped watching anything he was in and all his Christmas songs. I was done with him. He was a terrible man.
It's hard to raise kids. They can feel that they got too much or not enough. It would be hard to get a perspective when you are born at the top of the mountain and never really seeing who it can be down in the swamp. Also - you can do the right thing 10,000 times and do the wrong thing once and that's what they can remember. Grand-kids.................now that's a piece of cake. They don't blame you for anything.
it's easy to admit your mistakes years after it's too late to correct it. did he try to have a heartfelt admission to each one of them? or try to show them he truly loved them? it's too easy to admit things when you don't care about showing your truly sorry & change your behavior. he was a pos his whole life. is that the big 'confession' & secret? another bait & switch piece of garbage.
I always enjoyed his singing. I have many recordings of his singing in my music collection. I was never that interested in his movies, but when I was " way younger", they were often on tv. Our tv choices were really limited, and I watched many.
I the 1960s and 70s,living in San Francisco,I would see him in the downtown area,usually coming out of an ice cream store,can't recall the name.Near Grant Avenue.
Narrative is boringly repetitive... same story given out x4 ... ! Hardly anything new about the Crosby family dynamics -- addictions & abuse wellknown for many decades already !
You didn’t tell the big two secrets number one which everyone knows from reading the books that Crosby was mean to his children and Bob the brother to being didn’t live in that house so you wasted my time
This happened in almost every family of that era.They got spankins and they were disciplined.And they turned out to be pretty good.People regard list of wow won't nobody everybody experience this discipline
I knew Phil Crosby during the 1960s. He was a sweet, funny, and considerate guy. Alcoholic, of course, and the last time I saw him he was laid out on a pool table somewhere in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, he deserved a much better father than he had. Phil had a good tenor voice and sang in a variety of venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always wished he had had a better family life. Even with a great sense of humor, there was a sadness in him that was palpable.
I can't understand the thinking of any parent who, after divorcing their spouse, not only leaves the spouse behind when they build a new life with another spouse but they leave the prior family as a whole. You don't divorce the children.
Lindsay was a gentleman, we met at a party where I had had too much to drink. He took care of me when I became ill and made sure I got safely home. I know the year as we had snow which was uncommon. 1962
It wasn’t the spotlight that hurt these young men. It was the treatment from their father that hurt them in my opinion.
agreed. abusers can be VERY secretive and covert about it. very tragic, those sons. may they rest in peace.
I also agree ,that useless waste of human excrement used his kids as punching bags
certainly appears that way....fame and fortune don't equate to happiness....
This is why people need to stop idolizing and worshipping famous people.
I remember how mainly boys were beaten by their fathers at that time. It was accepted as being disciplined. My brothers were beaten and our generation decided that we would not beat our children. It was time to change the way children were disciplined. 🇿🇦
My mother was upset with this man. I remember her telling me he didn't leave much to his sons, but his last wife's family received everything. These poor boys how they must have suffered.
I had a friend who grew up in the Spokane neighborhood with the Crosby's. She said none of the kids liked Bing. He had a mean streak.
Money doesn't buy happiness, So sad how he treated his own family,so bad.looking from the outside, he treated everyone else so nice. Two face personality. Sad the some of his sons killed themselves. Then to leave them only 5,000 out of 70 million. So cold
WOW!!! Where did the rest of the $ go? It sounds like there was a lot left out of this short story!!!
👹 BAD!👺
A complicated parent style?! He was a brute. The perfect example of a sadistic abuser; a brute to his family and a wonderful human being when anyone is watching.
Wow what a creep
Ultimate vindictive narcissist.
Just like Joan Crawford.
Like a lot of narcissist s.
Wow, no wonder I never liked Bing Crosby, and for some reason unknown to myself, he always seemed massively creepy to me. I'm so sorry for his sons and others who he hurt😢
Bing Crosby and Jerry Lewis worst Fathers in entertainment history.
Iam so Heartbrokenly Angry . I always thought Bing Crosby was a Charming, wonderful man and Actor. This is Sickening. 😪😡
My father ran into him in a Copenhagen hotel & said he bumped into him & then was snide about it. To this day, I can never watch him for how awful he was to his family. Being was rude & mean!
This guy's character sucked....but y....he was a star.... alcohol is a mean substance..... shameful for how he treated his children‼️💯🔥
Alcohol only releases what was already there.
I was (guess I still am, although not as much) a huge Old Hollywood buff. I recall reading in many biographies of the actors/actresses of that time how Bing Crosby was very difficult to be around. He was extremely aloof, cold, standoffish, had no close friends, kept everyone at arm's distance and everything about him was superficial. He never got close or warm with anyone. This was a common assessment of him in the many different books I had read over the years.
Daddy dearest. What a nightmare father
He was a nasty,mean man who abused his sons.
I don't think he even cared when Dixie died. He drove her to alcoholism. He was never home, and when he was he was a very mean person.
Bing Crosby left each of his 4 sons from his 1st marriage $5,000 even though he was worth $50 - $70 million when he died.
The will specified that if they contested the amount they wouldn't even get that.
He was mean to the end.
Never liked him. Didn't like the way he sang (too "scoopy") and something about him rubbed me the wrong way. When I found out how he treated his children, I knew that's what it was.
Me too. Bing was a covert narcissist and a nasty piece of work where his sons were concerned.
@@2352anne yes. It really irked me when they re-named a theater in downtown Spokane after him!!
I also cannot help but believe that he, like Bob Hope, was an MK Ultra handler.
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This is very disjointed and difficult to follow. So many facts randomly thrown together. I never realized that Bing had so many oldest sons. I counted three according to the narration.
I agree. Very badly researched and badly written...with lots of repetition and a many mistakes.
@@deniaridley I think it's AI generated? There's a lot of very badly made videos on YT now.
This is so sad, how can a father treat his sons so badly. What a dreadful father Bing Crosby was.
And what was the father's "Horrific Confession" that caused 2 sons to commit suicide?
Mary Frances was a HALF sister to Bing's oldest 4 boys, with a different mother, and was born in 1959. She was NOT a "contemporary" with the 4 older boys, she was a much younger half-sibling. For pete's sake - get it right!
She was mentioned along with 2 other kids from his 2nd marriage. She was an actress in the TV show "Dallas" in the 80's.
Mary Frances Crosby was Bing Crosby's daughter by his second wife, Kathryn Grayson.
That is what I said. Like I said before, "Does anyone actually "listen" when watching videos?
I consider myself.to be a good.judge of character, you fooled me. My GOD to think my family watched him for yrs
Calm.down people make mistakes. You sound nasty yourself
Dear God from heaven how terrible for those boy. All of them .
His last wife could have changed what his sons were left.
Reminds me of how Jerry Lewis treated his 1st wife and biological children. Then cut them out of his will and left every thing to his 2nd wife's daughter that he adopted. Lewis was a monster as well. Ozzy from the Ozzy and Hariet was very controlling to his family the Nelsons.
First you say Lindsay was the second son then you say Dennis was the second son...???!!!Then you say Phillip and Gary each as the first son....then Phillip is the twin to Dennis...THIS WHOLE STORY IS A CROCK!!!
Yeah
Do diligence...u ever hear about it? Do you'r back ground check as if you gave a shit.
@@GailBrenner-vt9ou
What does this mean, genius ??
I cry for his kids, they endured a father who was a brutal child abuser. A monster who delighted in the torture of his family untill he decided he didn't want that family anymore so he abandoned them , married somebody else and started another family.
When I first read of Bing’s abuse of his sons, I stopped listening to his music & watching his movies out respect for his children and their memory.
❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Half of this information is wrong, you are mixing up his first and second families and the pictures are not always right you have the wrong photo's with the wrong names.
From the pics it looks like Bing had two mothers...?
sad sad sad. His last wife and the "good" children didn't want the older children anywhere in the picture. MOney of course. And they screwed the older kids out of their inheritance.
A narcissisic father, thinking how his children reflect on him, is always a recipe for disaster.
My next door neighbor growing up used to get the Crosby Boys hand me down clothes via his housekeeper.
He had a good voice, but he was a jerk
I sang with Chris Crosby way back in the 80s. He was supposedly the nephew of Bing. He shared how awful Bing was to his boys AND wife. Personally I never liked him as a performer, I felt repulsed, even as a child.
Bing would have suffered as a child too. It is a nightmare that has been happening for millennia!
I won’t have children, as I would have inadvertently wrecked their lives as my dad wrecked mine.
I give up. What a mess this is.
Fathers who take out their issues on their kids- especially their sons- has always been a common problem. People just didn't talk about it. My father was a very harsh disciplinarian and we were all afraid of him, but my oldest brother got the worst of it. He is a gentle and kind man in his old age and was always a highly-regarded member of the community, but he had little patience for his own children.
Lindsay Crosby was Bing Crosby’s 4th son born in 1938, not 1934, Philip and Dennis Crosby were twins born July 13, 1934 and Gary Crosby born in 1933
This is a horrible video the pictures don’t match what he’s talking about. Ridiculous!
The photos shown in this video are so -oooo misidentified right from the begging. The other thing is that Dennis and Philip were twins. And this is never mentioned. Frequently Photos of Gary are frequently not him, but one of the twins. The whole video is poorly composed.
They were mentioned as twins. 1/2 way or 3/4 the way thru'.
Do you still have a masters degree in nitpicking or do you have a doctorate by now ?
So both of Bing Crosby's parents were women???
Way ahead of their time.
A very sad tale of someone who had everything but didn't treat his own family with kindness or the love he should have.
Just because your parent is talented and successful it doesn’t mean you will be. Life happens.
These kid's grow up with everything in huge houses being expected to be perfect! All while being chased by paparazzi then being expected to look like thier famous parent's & be talented like them! They have no idea what it's like to be poor or middle class! Normal everyday people! They turn to drugs & alcohol! It's all a difficult thing! Beatings with belts that was considered a normal thing back then! I can't say punishments & the way kid's act these days is well out of control!
Not unusual in that generation. Spare the rod, spoil the child , belief generation. Then Bing Crosby own upbringing no doubt.
I knew a wealthy family that were friends with him, same sad story, but drug and alcohol addiction, not suicide.😮
Who was "him" ?
Bing or one of his sons ?
If you are young, consider taking a writing course.
If someone's to good to be true you better believe it. It's all about ego quite sad really
Unfortunately most offspring from celebrity are damaged by the parent
I met Mr. Crosby while he was a resident in San Mateo, Calif. He always talked to any one on tthe street if they said Hi to him. His second family was also very nice. You didn't get the daughters name from his second marriage not his first correctly. Also you failed to mention that Gary Crosby had a going concern with his Band for many years.
Elvis put one of his sons in a lot of his movies.
I think he was trying to be a good friend to him.
The way Bing treated his sons might have leaked out to people in the movie industry.
Elvis didn't have any sons.
The comment was referring to Bing's sons.
@@ginawhiteley8834 Oh..ok, lol..
@@ginawhiteley8834 should have said so, then 🤡
That photo supposedly taken in the Spokane Arena was actually taken in the now demolished Spokane Coliseum that was opened in 1953, long after Bing moved to Los Angeles!!
I remember seeing Gary Crosby on Tattletales in the 70's
and thinking then he seemed reasonably normal considering
what a scumbag his father was.
I knew onof the twins when he was working at Howard's Manner in the 60s , in Palm Springs. He has a very sad life and a cruel upbringing by his father...all 4 of the boys did.
I remember seeing Gary on a Twilight Zone episode and he was great. I remember hearing about how his dad treated him but had a hard time believing it.
Jerry Lewis disinherited his five sons from his first marriage & left all his millions to his adopted daughter & second wife
Hurting people, hurting others.
We, all must do the healing of all our childhood, wounds.
Otherwise, will go around our entirely, lifetime; bleeding our personal wounds and injuring others , along our paths and accruing, Karmic debts with others 🙏😢⚖️🙄🗝️🔥💯🙏❤❤🙏
Hollywood is full of creeps like this guy!
Suicide should not be used as a tag line to draw people in. These people's lives were way more complicated and their hurt and reason for suicide way more deep than their father's "horrific confession". Just not a good idea to make money and grow your channel off of suicide.
You have brought a whole new perspective on bing that I use to now think a lot about!
Father of the Year. And Joan Crawford as Mother of the Year.
RIP🕊✝️ All of you❤✝️🇺🇸
On the Sunday before he died I was a teaching professional at Hartsbourne C.C. I was asked to play a a game with his son Nathaniel. This was an enjoyable afternoon! Only ruined after the round I was interviewed at length by Bing as to Nats golfing ability as to his ambition to become a golf professional! Would he be good enough or would he be an embarrassment? I was none committed and made my excuses and left the club house. He died that week! I shed no tears!
A lot of men ignore their first horns when they go on to second marriages. Second wives are extremely jealous of first families.
Yeah, I tried to hide my horns during sex,
so my second wife wouldn't see them.
But she kept wanting to turn the lights on.
Very annoying.
I was telling a coworker how horrible a father Crosby was to his children/sons. she didn’t believe me until she looked it up herself and that was about 15 years ago. He was like a rabbit skunk…imo
My father never liked Bing Crosby now I know why
All that glitters isn’t gold ,BC had more than one persona 💔😒🎬😌
I am so glsd this is coming out. I learned this about 15 years ago. I knew it eas true. Being a survivor myself kids with kind parents don't right books about how evil they sre while siblings kill themselves. I read the book, and you can't make up those details unless it happened. I am grateful it's coming out.
Sorry for typos. Oops.
He was a very nasty mean man to his wife who had cancer and to his sons.
My mother always said she thought there was something not quite right with him. Guess Mama was right!
Ol bingo Crosby we all thought he was a sweet lovely man 💕 I'll tell you something for nothing!!!! I bet none of his family ever go to the bingo 😂😂😂
Getting chastised with a belt was part of growing up for many in that era
When I had found out yrs ago how abusive he was, I stopped watching anything he was in and all his Christmas songs. I was done with him. He was a terrible man.
God watches everything..and His judgement is the one that counts! ..
I saw Bing in an interview where he said women are of no value if they have sex before marriage even if they were raped
1903 ... wow that is a very long time ago - hard to imagine what Wa was like way back then - it had only became a state in 1889
It’s true that beating children with leather belts was considered normal in those days and on into the 1960s but that doesn’t make it right.
He was a bad alcoholic. And all it included to a family!!
It's hard to raise kids. They can feel that they got too much or not enough. It would be hard to get a perspective when you are born at the top of the mountain and never really seeing who it can be down in the swamp. Also - you can do the right thing 10,000 times and do the wrong thing once and that's what they can remember. Grand-kids.................now that's a piece of cake. They don't blame you for anything.
You do repeat yourself a lot
it's easy to admit your mistakes years after it's too late to correct it. did he try to have a heartfelt admission to each one of them? or try to show them he truly loved them? it's too easy to admit things when you don't care about showing your truly sorry & change your behavior. he was a pos his whole life. is that the big 'confession' & secret? another bait & switch piece of garbage.
Well said
Thanks!!
I always enjoyed his singing. I have many recordings of his singing in my music collection. I was never that interested in his movies, but when I was " way younger", they were often on tv. Our tv choices were really limited, and I watched many.
Even in his movies there was a coldness about him.
Imagine how terrible Colombo tv show would have been had Bing the thing had taken the part! Luckily we were blessed with Peter Falk
Wow i didn’t know Mr Crosby was like this this is so sad
I never knew what a monster he was, thanks for the info.
I the 1960s and 70s,living in San Francisco,I would see him in the downtown area,usually coming out of an ice cream store,can't recall the name.Near Grant Avenue.
Who am I to judge anyone?? 💔
That is so so sad.
Narrative is boringly repetitive... same story given out x4 ... ! Hardly anything new about the Crosby family dynamics -- addictions & abuse wellknown for many decades already !
You didn’t tell the big two secrets number one which everyone knows from reading the books that Crosby was mean to his children and Bob the brother to being didn’t live in that house so you wasted my time
His friend who gave him his nickname should have been paid royalties for life!
Never really liked Bing....seemed too good to be true. Time shows this was right
I heard that he was a terrible parent.
Im a quiet sub this made me cry so moving dan you are so caring and wonderful with your dad and danniell sending love to you all ❤😊
Brevity is the soul of wit
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This happened in almost every family of that era.They got spankins and they were disciplined.And they turned out to be pretty good.People regard list of wow won't nobody everybody experience this discipline
Show Business is way far from an ordinary career. It's really unfortunate that "Bing" had so little involvement with his sons!