Takes part in the annual show at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco for the disabled and chronically ill.

Bing holds a press conference in San Francisco to promote "Bing Crosby's New York Experience," the story of New York City from its beginnings, through George Washington's battle of Long Island, to what it's like today. It is schedued to open in 1973, for what its creators hope will be a 10-year run. During the conference, Crosby explained that his production company had officially licensed Trans-Lux to build a theater utilizing "serpentine-shaped screens" and quadraphonic sound to "completely envelop the audience." Crosby explicitly teased the unique theater layout to the press that day, noting that patrons would sit in custom "swivel bucket seats" so they could spin around to catch the fast-paced, multi-screen action.

Has a fishing holiday in Seven Islands, northern Quebec where he catches a 17-pound salmon.

Stars in the annual show at Laguna Honda Hospital again.

Christmas

Long before she shot JR, Mary Frances shoots a 12-foot killer crocodile on the Tana River while on safari with her father in Kenya. They then go to the the Republic of Seychelles and then to Rome, Italy. BBC producer Richard Drewett meets Bing in Rome and arranges for him to appear in a 'Parkinson' TV show.

Bing contributes a tribute to the Roberto Clemente Memorial Album.

Bing goes to the theatre several times during his stay and sees 'Seesaw', 'Pippin' and 'A Little Night Music'.

Mary Frances enrolls at a school in Mexico having been given permission to do so by Kathryn. Bing is unhappy with the decision and relations between him and Mary Frances become strained with Bing refusing to answer her letters.

Bing films a spot as one of the hosts for M-G-M's compilation That's Entertainment which is released in 1974.

HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. (UPI) -- "The Old Groaner is still groaning," Bing Crosby said just before boarding his own plane for an Easter holiday at his house in Las Cruces, Mex. The 69-year-old crooner underwent surgery last January for removal of part of his left lung and has been recuperating slowly ever since. "I read some newspaper stories about how sick I was and it gave me quite a turn," said Bing in his rich baritone. His voice was strong and his attitude jaunty.

"I'm coming along, but it takes time. I've had operations before but this was a tough one. They took out two-fifths of my left lung. Now I've got a 35-inch scar on my back. It's a beauty. "There was a report that my trouble was due to an African fungus. Not so. It was a fungus, with an abcess the size of a tangerine. But I could have picked it up anywhere. It's a type of fungus that's common in central California." Crosby is still trying to put on a little weight. He hopes to improve his color in the balmy sun at the tip of Baja California. "Kathryn (his wife) is working in the theater here," he said. "She won't be making the trip. But as usual, I'll be taking the kids -- Harry, Nathanial and Mary Francis with me. "We'll be fishing for marlin, sailfish and some of the other big ones.

Crosby won't return to work until early summer, when he will go to Hollywood to tape a television comedy special with Bob Hope, Pearl Bailey and Mitzi Gnynor. Later he and his family will film the annual Christmas show.

Crosby underwent surgery Jan. 13 to remove a fungus growth the size of an orange from his lungs. "It began with a pain in my left arm like bursitis. I went to a doctor who took some X-rays and then did what they call a scan which means injecting a dye into your veins. Before long I was on the table and they had laid open my whole back and took out the growth which they identified as a rare fungus called necardioses. The doctor asked me where I'd been and I gave him a list of places which included Africa. 'Aha' he said, 'it must be Africa then,' but it turned out that the disease was most prevalent in central California and not Africa but they were busy looking for something exotic to notice," he said.

"This is a great place to recuperate," Crosby said with a grin as he relaxed in his cottage. He wore a flowered sports shirt with short sleeves and gray corduroy pants. His face was tanned. "It is warm and balmy," he added. "I've been knocking out some golf balls and even playing a little tennis. "I walk a couple of miles per day and have been getting in some exercise," he added. Though Crosby was an avid hunter several years ago, now he has turned into a "strict conservationist," he said. But he still enjoys fishing.

SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) -- Bing Crosby has given up pipesmoking because of lung problems he suffered in January. That's not the only reason. "It was a nuisance -- what a nuisance." Crosby said Thursday. "All those pipe cleaners and paraphernalia it takes to keep it going." His wife, Kathryn, said her husband's new status as a nonsmoker was "good for the rug, too." Crosby said he put his pipe aside in January when he underwent surgery for removal of an abscess in his lung.

Ken Barnes and Pete Moore visit Bing at his home to firm up the keys and routines for the planned recording session.

Gord Atkinson again visits Bing at his home in connection with 'The Crosby Years' radio program.

At the bottom of the argument between Crosby and Beman is the PGAs demand for a bigger slice of the television pie. The PGA has gone as far as to hire its own television coordinator, Steve Reid, with the idea of taking over complete control of all contracts involving television.

Crosby gave in some to the PGA this year, letting them take 30 per cent off the top of a $280,000 television contract. But he insists that's it, he wont give the PGA another cent. The PGA is demanding 50 per cent in 1976 and 80 per cent in 1977. Bing's reply has been short and sweet. Take 30 and be happy, he told Beman, or it's adios.

Records an appearance on the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs and interviewed by Roy Plomley, Bing selects the eight gramophone records he would take if abandoned on a desert island. The program is broadcast on December 27, 1975.

In Yorkshire (near Ripon) for the grouse shooting. Harry Crosby is with him.

Tapes three appearances for Yorkshire Television program 'Stars On Sunday'. Receives a nominal fee of £250 which he passes on to the playing fields committee at Kirkby Malzeard, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. He has already given £1000 to this cause.

Tapes a TV commercial for Tennents Lager.

Records 'International Pro-Celebrity Golf' TV program on King's Course, Gleneagles in Scotland with Val Doonican, Tom Weiskopf and Peter Oosterhuis. The program is shown on January 27, 1976.

Tapes appearances on a tribute to Bob Hope, the Tonight show (with Don Rickles as guest host) and on the Dinah Shore show.

Canadian broadcaster Gord Atkinson visits Bing's Hillsborough home to present a hand crafted wooden case containing The Crosby Years radio series. Bing is rehearsing the song 'At My Time of Life' and gives a special performance for Gord and his wife.

The Desert Sun publishes an interview with Bing where Bing expresses a desire to play Ben Franklin in a movie: "Ben Franklin was an all-around fellow, a great imbiber known to accept a friendly glass, a great scientist, a great statesman. Had a few amours. He did have a wandering eye, y'know."

HOUSTON (UPI) -- The ballroom, gaily decorated in red, white and blue, fell dark into silence broken only by a crisp drum roll from the 90-piece symphony orchestra heralding the arrival of "the old crooner" himself, Bing Crosby. Still spry at 72, the small-framed Crosby appeared in the spotlight he's known so long and immediately opened with a humorous ditty about his Houston visit. "I even wore my hair," he joked. For the crowd of nearly a thousand, Crosby did a moving version of "Send in the Clowns," "Cup Runneth Over," with his wife, Kathryn Grant Crosby, and "You've Got a Friend."

Patrons paid from $lOO up to $5,000 Saturday night for a filet mignon dinner with all the trimmings, a light symphony program and Crosby's featured performance. Even Crosby enjoyed the one-night gig. "I don't know if it was beautiful, but it sure was long," Crosby said following the 40-minute performance, during which he was accompanied by the orchestra under the baton of music director Lawrence Foster. The crooner, who says he mostly goes fishing and plays golf, jetted into Houston earlier in the day and practiced his arrangements before doing the informal performance. "We've been on a long time, and you've been the greatest," Crosby told the cheering crowd. "It's been a pleasure to come out here and do this little stint for the symphony. It deserves the best."

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Singing in fine mellow style, Bing Crosby celebrated St. Patrick's Day and his "demicentennial in show business" by performing the first concert of his career. The 71-year-old singer seemed close to tears Wednesday night as a standing ovation greeted his performance at the Music Center. It was the first of several concerts he plans to give for charity in this country and later this year in London. "I decided to get back in the swim," Crosby told his audience. "One of the things that made me decide was when I came out of NBC's artists' entrance one day and somebody asked me, 'Didn't you used to be Bing Crosby?' "

Crosby, who had curtailed his career in recent years, seemed to enjoy himself immensely. He sang with wife, Kathryn, son Harry and daughter Mary Francis -- "Nathaniel would be here except that he got three F's in his last report card," said Bing. He also sang duets with Rosemary Clooney and clowned with impressionist Rich Little. The Crosby baritone sounded as sure as ever, especially in the lower registers.

Backed by Nelson Riddle's orchestra, he gave solid renditions of such recent songs as "Send in the Clowns," "You've Got a Friend" and "The Way We Were." But he made his biggest impact on the audience with his medley with the Joe Bushkin quartet of the well-remembered oldies, which included: "I Surrender Dear," "True Love," "Would You Like to Swing on a Star," "Pennies From Heaven," and "Blue Hawaii."

"It was just 50 years ago this month that my partner Al Rinker and I got a job at the Boulevard Theater here," Crosby told his audience. "The theater was close to the USC campus and a lot of the college boys and girls dropped in to see how a couple of guys from Spokane were doing. They were a big help, and ever since then I've rooted for USC -- except when they play Notre Dame, of course."

At Guadalajara, Mexico where he meets Derek Jewell of The Sunday Times. Jewell writes the program notes for Bing's forthcoming UK tour.

Crosby was a house guest of industrialist John Galbreath who flew the singer into his private landing field on his farm west of the city late Monday. Crosby did not play in the Tuesday pro-am preceding the $200,000 Memorial Golf tournament at nearby Dublin on the advice of the attending physician. "He apparently got a piece of meat caught in his throat and was having difficulty swallowing and a choking sensation," Joie Cline, a nursing supervisor said Tuesday. "They removed it without surgery, but it is considered a surgical procedure. There was no cutting or anything like that."

At Elstree studios, Bing records his annual Christmas TV special (which airs on December 1) with Jackie Gleason and Bernadette Peters.

Lunches at the Railway Arms, South Ascot.

HOLLYWOOD -- It turned out to be the Road to Disenchantment for Dorothy Lamour Saturday night at the Thalians charity ball held to honor her, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. The evening started out splendidly enough. The black tie crowd that jammed the grand ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel was enchanted by the solo singing performances of Crosby and Peggy Lee and highly receptive to the stage appearances of Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Fred MacMurray and John Wayne. But what was planned as the highlight to the evening -- the first reunion since the 1961 "Road to Hong Kong" of Bing and Bob and their former Sarong Girl -- never quite came off.

WHEN MISS LAMOUR was asked to join her old partners on stage, they ended up pretty much crowding her out of microphone range. What had been intended as a three-part "Road" parody turned into a duet. And the show ended with Dorothy throwing notes with prepared remarks aside and making an ad lib reference to the bumps in the road of friendship she's experienced with Bob and Bing in the past. Later, Miss Lamour (who's brooded frequently because her old buddies -- particularly Crosby -- haven't kept in close touch) told me she hadn't sung with them on stage, "Because they didn't even invite me to rehearse with them. They obviously didn't want me in the number." She also said she had no intention of subjecting herself to such hurt again. "This is the last time. I've had it."

SHE DID RELENT a bit when I informed her Crosby and Hope were hoping to film "The Road to Tomorrow" next year. After thinking the situation over for a moment she conceded that she might lend her talents to the eighth "Road" picture, "If all the conditions were spelled out -- and if the price was right." Meanwhile, the lady who's trod a rough road in recent years, caring for a husband who's seriously ill, isn't waiting for any professional help from her former friends. She's preparing a new nightclub act that will take her from Australia to the various U.S. cities were Dorothy Lamour remains a beloved performer.

For more than 2 hours, Crosby and members of his family, along with singer Rosemary Clooney, the Joe Bushkin Quartet and British comic Ted Rodgers entertained audience in the Aladdin Hotel's new Theater for the Performing Arts. There are no slot machines in the theater, and friends said that might have been one of the reasons Crosby agreed to come. Also on stage was Bing's partner from the road movies, Bob Hope. "He was funny years ago," Crosby said when asked if he remembered Hope. Noting that Hope has played golf with many a president, Crosby said the most famous foursome ever was Hope, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore and John Quincy Adams.

Crosby opened the show with some memories going back to his start a half-century ago in a West Los Angeles night club. From there the night unfolded, switching from current pop to the old songs, with a few Hope jokes and a little soft shoe mixed in along the way. Two of Crosby's sons were in the show -- Harry playing classical guitar and Nathaniel singing. Crosby's wife, Kathryn, and daughter Mary Frances danced in flowing gowns. The highlight of the night came when Bing announced he would "reach into the embers and pull out a few old chestnuts." From there he moved casually, and sometimes humorously, through more than a score of his greatest hits.

Records interview for German TV which is shown there on Christmas Day.

PASADENA. Calif. (UPI) Bing Crosby toppled off the stage at his 50th anniversary performance Thursday night, cutting his head in a 20-foot fall that shocked a celebrity-crowded audience, but physicians said the 72-year-old crooner was not seriously hurt. "Apparently he sustained only some bruises and a slight cut on the head," said John McCarthy, spokesman for Huntington Memorial Hospital. "He's alert, never lost consciousness and he's in very good condition."

Crosby joked about the fall with witnesses and the paramedics who took him to the hospital by ambulance. The audience had risen to its feet to give Crosby a standing ovation at the finale of his 50th Anniversary in Show Business special at the Ambassador College Auditorium when the entertainer lost his balance and pitched off the stage, clutching at a flimsy, curtain-type, backdrop that collapsed with him. He fell into an empty lower level used as an orchestra pit or for raising performers and scenery to the stage. Nick Condos, identified only as a close personal friend of Crosby's, dashed forward to break the fall but was hit by the falling scenery before reaching the singer, McCarthy said. Condos was treated for a two-inch head cut and released, the hospital spokesman said.

Crosby's wife Kathryn rushed out of the wings to his side. She had appeared in the show with him along with their three children Nathaniel, Harry and Mary Frances. Many of Crosby's closest friends, including comedian Bob Hope and singer Pearl Bailey, also ran up, as did three doctors from the audience. The fall stunned the applauding audience into shocked silence. "This is part of the act," Crosby joked, as he lay waiting for the ambulance, according to a member of the audience. "We'll give it another try tomorrow night." The length of the fall was estimated at from 6 to 25 feet by witnesses and participants in the show, but police officer Rocky McAlister said the distance had been measured at exactly 20 feet.

PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) -- Bing Crosby, mending from bruises suffered in a 20-foot fall from a stage during a show celebrating his 50 years in show business March 3, was sleeping Sunday night when the program was aired on television. "Bing was tired and had already been asleep when the show went on," a spokesman at Huntington Memorial Hospital said Monday.

Agrees to appear in Royal Variety Performance on November 12.