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 Clifton (singer) great pioneers of music-hall song." Harry Clifton (singer) Harry Clifton (born Henry Robert Clifton, 1832 – 15 July 1872) was a British music hall singer, songwriter and entertainer. A prolific songwriter, his most successful song was "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green". Clifton was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the son of a carpenter, and was baptised on 20 May 1832. He was orphaned as a child, and little is known of his early adulthood, but by the early 1860s he had become well known as a singer and songwriter in the song and supper rooms and early music halls of