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) on their deployment to the sub-Antarctic port of Leith Harbour in South Georgia, over-wintering with the fleet in 1950 and 1951 to carry out essential maintenance and repairs. Over the dark and cold sub-antarctic winter months, for recreation Harry and his shipmates would sing or recite traditional songs and ballads, as well as songs and poems that they composed themselves; Robertson's songs "Wee Pot Stove" (later covered by U.K. folk singer Nic Jones on his 1980 album "Penguin Eggs" under the title "The Little Pot Stove", also supplying the title phrase used for the record), "The Antarctic Fleet", "Blubber Laddie",