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...William Harrison Withers Jr was born in 1938 in Slab Fork, a small coal mining town in West Virginia. His father, a miner, died when he was 13. His mother was a maid....
...Neil Young’s influence remains paramount, as with the Crazy Horse-style layers of guitars in “Be a Part”, while “Love Is . . . ” drifts towards the mellower waters of Crosby, Stills and Nash....
...People’s tastes change, says Crosby Doe, a Beverly Hills-based agent specialising in architectural and historic homes. Wright may be coming back into fashion....
...Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 Crosby was director of operations for US marketing firm Saginaw....
...The younger man enhanced Crosby’s easy style of singing, adding feeling to it. Crosby, more reserved, had instructed one of his lyricists not to put the words “I love you” in his songs....
...Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr were guests – a nearby street is named after Sinatra – while Bing Crosby and Harpo Marx each owned estates nearby....
...“It really is, yeah,” agrees James, his hair a demolished haystack, his beard a battle between a Confederate conscript and David Crosby in his prime....
...His immediate task is to prove he’s more than just a cute, cut-price Harry Connick Jr, himself a cute, cut-price Frank Sinatra....
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