We three Bings... Hunt for Crosby’s namesakes

ARE you Bing Crosby? If so, a record label would like to hear from you.

While the US singer, for ever associated with the song White Christmas, died in 1977, there are said to be three people with his name living in the UK.

Decca Records has started a nationwide search for them to mark the release of a new album of his Christmas songs.

One of the Bings is registered as living in Kent, so Decca has placed an advert in this week’s Kent Messenger that reads: ‘Calling all Bing Crosbys... If your birth name is Bing Crosby, we want to hear from you!’

The label has specified that a birth certificate is required as evidence of the name – meaning the singer himself would not qualify because he was born Harry Lillis Crosby.

If all three Bings – or more – are found, they will be invited to a ‘five-star Christmas lunch’ in London and presented with a commemorative disc. Decca’s Tom Lewis said: ‘We knew we had to bring them together.’

On the new album, Bing At Christmas, Crosby’s original vocals are set to newly recorded arrangements by the London Symphony Orchestra.