Larry Crosby Larry Crosby Laurence Earl "Larry" Crosby (January 3, 1895 – February 7, 1975) was the long-time publicity director of his younger brother, singer Bing Crosby. He was the eldest of Bing's six siblings. The seven Crosby children were the four elder brothers Larry, Everett (1896–1966), Ted (1900–1973), and Harry Jr. (1903–1977, popularly known as Bing), two sisters Catherine (1905–1974) and Mary Rose (1907–1990), and the youngest sibling, brother Bob (1913-1993). His parents were English-American bookkeeper Harry Lillis Crosby Sr. (1871–1950) and Irish-American Catherine Helen "Kate" Harrigan (1873–1964), daughter of a builder from County Cork, Ireland. Crosby managed the annual Bing
Harry Robertson (folk singer) prior to the version recorded on "Whale Chasing Men". He also worked with the Welsh-born, Australian folk-singer, Declan Affley, to whom he dedicated his song "Wee Honey Jar" (To 'Doctor' Affley from a Patient). The 12 songs recorded for "Whale Chasing Men" were only a subset of his compositions, of which a much more extensive listing is given on the official website created on behalf of Harry's widow; a number of his otherwise unreleased compositions were subsequently recorded by Evan Mathieson on two CDs, "Harry's Legacy" (2007) and "Tribute to Harry Robertson 1923-1995" (2009). Lyn Mathieson writes: This list based