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The celebration, which drew arts and civic leaders for the first of three preview nights, was far grander than the concert on March 26,1965, that opened LACMA’s Leo S. Bing Theatre the night before the doors opened to the museum’s original galleries.

Perry – best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends – was found dead in his hot tub in Los Angeles in October 2023.

It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”

Xavier Cugat, “king of the rumba,” nevertheless hired him, and Bing Crosby advocated for him.

In 1948, Bing Crosby gave Paul his first mono Ampex recorder, to which Paul added a second playback head, which enabled him to record multiple tracks on the same reel of tape.