Bing Crosby
Born May 3, 1903

Bing Crosby turned his 1936 slab into sheet music. Above the signature is a hand-drawn staff with a few notes and the words "The Blue of the Night," a nod to his theme song, "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)." It is a block you could almost hum.

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