Special Guest Blogger: Bing Crosby

Before there were rock stars, there were crooners, and one of the most successful was me. I was so popular during my heyday that i was named 'the most admired man alive' and i was one of the pioneers of a new style of smoother, quieter singing that was so successful that in 1931 and 1932 almost every top selling song had me singing on it.
What would the holidays be like without my dulcet tones singing about dreaming of a White Christmas drifting through the air of a department store, in an elevator after Halloween and continuing until everyone is too buried in credit card debt to even think about what song is playing or in the background of a favorite old movie and i sang my iconic hit in three different films, Holiday Inn, Blue Skies, and, of course, White Christmas because when a song is that good, and it is actually still the bestselling single of all time, it deserves to be in every damned movie.
Irving Berlin actually wrote it for Holiday Inn because he was stuck in California during a Christmas heatwave when trying to come up with a Christmas song for the film so the song is actually about the singer fantasizing about snowy trees and sleigh bells while getting a sun tan.
While White Christmas may be my most enduring Christmas song, i produced one heck of a tune when i teamed up with David Bowie for the holiday special, titled Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas. We were supposed to perform 'The Little Drummer Boy' but Bowie said he hated the song so we came up with him singing the lyrics of 'Peace on Earth' while i did the drummer boy bits.
The BBC in the UK actually banned one of my songs for being too catchy, they were worried that my wartime hit 'Deep in the Heart of Texas' would cause factory workers to bang their tools and clap along like idiots and worried that their planes and bombs would explode all over the assembly lines, banned it during work hours so i couldn't be held responsible for the Nazis winning because i accidentally sabotaged the Allied war effort with my song about the American South.
I wasn't just a singer though, i appeared alongside Bob Hope in over 25 films but despite that i still won a Best Actor Oscar for a film 'Going My Way' and i also owned several business including an orange juice company, a videotape recording company and a 25% stake in the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
When i wasn't recordng the Pirates onto video tape while drinking orange juice, i was playing golf and i played so much i had to turn down the role of the Detective Columbo because filming coincided with a golf tournament i was playing in.
Fittingly my last words were 'good game boys' before a massive heart attack while returning from a game of golf but i might be gone but i'm not forgotten, mostly because from mid October onwards you will be hearing me everywhere you go.