Call Me Lucky by Bing Crosby, Pete Martin, As told to Pete Martin
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Book Summary Author: As told to Pete Martin, Bing Crosby, Pete Martin Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2001-11 ISBN: 0306810875 Number of pages: 360 Publisher: Da Capo Press |
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Book Reviews of the Call Me Lucky
Customer Review: The great voice of the century
Summary: 4 Stars
Pete Martin, the famous journalist and profile writer who spent a lot of his time working like a beaver for the classic Saturday Evening Post of the 1940s and 1950s--the Norman Rockwell years--and who departed for LOOK magazine when Rockwell did--wrote the bulk of this book, but he did it in close cooperation with the not always easy to work with Bing Crosby, who had attained a new plateau of popularity in the 1950s (when the book was first published). It seemed as if he had everything: wonderful talent, a devoted family, a gift not only for musical comedy but for drama too, as his turns in The Country Girl and Going My Way indicated. Though filmed considerably later than the period he describes in this book, "der Bingle" did a great job as a serial killer in Ira Levin's medical thriller, Dr. Cook's Garden. Bing had a warm, jazz-inspired delivery that wrapped itself around air like it was filled with honey, he was surely the warmest singer who ever lived. If his private life was more complicated than the Saturday Evening Post was then willing to print, what we have in CALL ME LUCKY is another side to the many-faceted Bing Crosby, a construction of grit, daring and tenderness that remains remarkably durable twenty years after his death.