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 Brandelius Harry Brandelius Harry "Torbjörn" Brandelius (14 June 1910 - 5 September 1994) was a Swedish singer of schlager music. He made his debut as a gramophone singer in 1932 with "Midt i natten" ("Miss i nassen") accompanied by Folke Andersson's orchestra (HMV X 4026), and was one of the most popular of his generation. Many of his songs had sailor's themes. Brandelius achieved his breakthrough with the song "Han hade seglat för om masten" ("He had sailed fore of the mast"), written by Martin Nilsson, in 1938. Later on he also succeeded well with "Nordsjön" ("The North Sea"), "Med en