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Dog 3000
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Edited Dec 19, 2007, 22:32
The first pop star?
Dec 19, 2007, 22:02
The start of Crosby's career predates Sinatra by a decade, but somehow I don't think Der Bingle was really a "pop star" in the modern sense.

He did not have that "timeless" quality Sinatra does -- Sinatra will be popular forever like Elvis and Beatles, but Bing seems unlikely to ever have a resurgence in popularity -- he's been considered "hopelessly square" since at least the 60's, by the 70's was a punchline for jokes, and by the 80s all but forgotten. And no girls ever screamed and wet their knickers for him in the first place as far as I know.

(I mean can you imagine a TV ad with a fly new remix of . . . what the hell songs did he sing anyway, aside from "White Christmas"? Does anyone under the age of 50 remember?)

Not sure exactly WHY this should be however . . . . ???

Seems like it may be personality (or "iconic celebrityhood" or something) more than music, but their personalities are there in the music too. That's why Elvis is ELVIS and Pat Boone et al are not.
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