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TCM showed "Old Blue Eyes is Back" over the holidays, I recorded it and just viewed it. In one scene, he smokes a cigarette and eats a sandwich with a beer. Ah the 70's....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_kpKsqHK6E

 

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'Don't know but suspect Frank was too kinetic to make pipes his main smoke. I think he was a nail guy. I don't know if he ever quit, but I doubt it. The pipe photos seem to be in his late 20's, early 30's. He always looked like he was on top of the world on stage, but I think he was mostly pretty driven and not easy to be around, even for himself.

 
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Frankie vs. Bing
Who would win?
Well,

it was put to the test in a 1944 WB cartoon called Swooner Crooner,

an absolute classic!

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The full version got taken down from yootoob due to copyright or whatever,

but can still be seen in full here:

http://rarebit.org/?animation=swooner-crooner
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...here's the yootoob excerpt:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAEUWL76ww0
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...in the part not shown, since Porky Pig's egg farm (the Flockheed Eggcraft Factory!) went afoul when his hens leave their posts to swoon over "Frankie" (a crooning rooster singing "As Time Goes By"), Porky goes out and hires a new rooster (a pipe-smoking Bing Crosby-type) and the two roosters have a crooning contest that produces mountain of eggs, including an unexpected pile from Porky himself!
It's a great old cartoon, also featuring the brilliant Raymond Scott's massive track,

Powerhouse...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE
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In real life, Frankie was of course very very fond of Bing...
"A short time after Frank started going out with Nancy," said his aunt Josie, "he took her to see Bing Crosby. And after Crosby went off the stage Frank turned to Nancy and said: 'I'm going to be a singer.' When they got home that night he announced it, very seriously."
"Most people," Frank reportedly said of Crosby, "think he's just a crooner. But they're wrong. he's a troubadour. He tells a story in every song...He makes you feel like he's singing just for you. I bet I could sing like that."
"Someday," Nancy remembered him saying on the way home from the Crosby show, "that's gonna be me up there."
Family sources differ as to when and where frank had this revelation, but it seems not to have been merely some publicist's invention. Sinatra recalled the moment. "From the first time I first heard Bing on the radio, I thought he was in a class by himself. He was the greatest...the Will Rogers of song."
Musician and Hoboken contemporary John Marotta recalled seeing Frank "standing on street corners wearing a blazer, a sailing cap and smoking a pipe" - aping Bing Crosby.
From another book,

someone describes seeing him on the set of The Manchurian Candidate (1962)...
He was sitting quietly in a chair, Coke at hand instead of vodka, puffing leisurely on a pipe instead of dragging hastily on a cigarette. He was listening to a record album entitled "Relaxism", a gift from Dean Martin.

 

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I am a musician and a friend of mine was once asked to describe "tone". He said that Bing Crosby defined tone. " Almost every man in America has the same range, Bing had TONE"
And we were not big fans, but we knew quality when we heard it...or had it explained to us.

 
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Interesting trivia fact of the day:
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Frank Sinatra’s brief stint in lockup was thanks to his womanizing ways. On November 25, 1938, the crooner was dragged into jail on the charge of seduction, evidently a serious deal back in the ’30s. Sinatra was caught sleeping with an upstanding single woman, a pillar in the community until she was corrupted by Frankie’s wicked ways.
The charge was eventually dismissed, and Sinatra was let go until December 22 when he was hauled back to the slammer. After doing a little detective work, authorities discovered Sinatra’s lady friend was married, and Frank was charged with adultery. Eventually, officials dropped the case, and after a combined total of 16 hours in jail, Sinatra was back on the prowl.

 
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