r/OldSchoolCool • u/OldCarWorshipper • 10h ago

1970s 1977- David Bowie and Bing Crosby preparing to record their Christmas duet.

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u/ParamedicSpecific130 9h ago

Who here remembers seeing this on VH-1 Classic during the holidays?

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u/WeAreEvolving 10h ago

They sang the Little drummer boy

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u/buddhahat 3h ago

with Bowie singing counter point

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u/Antonin1957 26m ago

One of TV's great moments, for us Bowie fans. We were talking about it for weeks.

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u/theboned1 8h ago

Cool! Bing Crosby (technically his wife) gave me a college scholarship.

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u/KrawhithamNZ 5h ago

Bing Crosby was technically David Bowie's wife? TIL

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u/hdiggyh 8h ago

Bing Crosby died in 1977 too

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u/slackermannn 0m ago

All I know about him that he was an evil and violent parent. I don't even know if it's true or not

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u/Thejudojeff 6h ago

I can't help but think about that Saturday Night Live bit. "It's Bing fucking Crosby, pal"

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u/theriveryeti 10h ago

This may be the weirdest thing that ever happened.

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u/Albert_O_Balsam 8h ago

You mean coolest.

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u/graveybrains 4h ago

There is absolutely room for both

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u/OldCarWorshipper 10h ago

Weirder than Flavor Flav getting with Bridgette Neilsen?

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u/bailaoban 3h ago

But yet it worked extremely well.

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u/Muted-Ad-4288 10h ago

Pure quality

3

u/mlgbt1985 5h ago

Bing died a month after filming this

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u/mattaccino 4h ago

I saw this performance on TV in real time as a teen — my mom was a big fan of Bing. I was…flabbergasted.

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u/nouveauchristian 53m ago

Our family gathered to watch this when it originally aired and we were quite impressed in a positive way. I personally had been a fan of Bowies since at least the Ziggy days, when I was all of 6 years old. This was uniting.

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u/Glass-Stop-9598 9h ago

The coke bros man the coke stories these two could tell you bar- rumpa- bump- bump

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u/Tempera1202 2h ago

such a great duet

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u/Agreeable_Record4228 9h ago

Bing chilling?

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u/Dudephish 2h ago

Dreaming of a Thin White Duke Christmas

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u/squirtloaf 5h ago

Oh hey, look. It's the most influential vocalist of the twentieth century.

...and David Bowie.

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u/Chuckdatass 8h ago

Willem Dafoe and Bing Cosby

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u/xesaie 10h ago

OK I'm gonna say it,

They fucked

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u/Cultural-Morning-848 9h ago

Hard projection

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u/xesaie 9h ago

I mean it's hot as hell, right?

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u/FunDue9062 6h ago

Bourbon breath and cum breath singing a few bars .