Newsreel footage of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing "Mairzy Doats," a chart-topping 1943 novelty song, at an outdoor show for enlisted men stationed at the air base outside Santa Ana, California. Crosby and Hope, both together and separately, gave countless such performances for American soldiers and sailors throughout World War II: (This is the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on January 22, 2020