Editing Bing Crosby (section)

==Global impact==
[[File:Theemperorwaltzjapanesemovieposter-jpnmag1953.jpg|thumb|upright|A Japanese movie poster for ''The Emperor Waltz'']]
[[File:Bing Crosby China.jpg|left|thumb|441x441px|China]]
Crosby's popularity around the world was such that [[Dorothy Masuka]], the best-selling African recording artist, stated that, "Only Bing Crosby the famous American crooner sold more records than me in Africa." His great popularity throughout the continent led other African singers to emulate him, including Masuka, [[Dolly Rathebe]], and Míriam Makeba, known locally as "The Bing Crosby of Africa".<ref>{{cite book |last=Music |first=International Association for the Study of Popular |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brs4AQAAIAAJ&q=miriam+makeba+fan+of+bing+crosby |title=Popular Music: Intercultural Interpretations |date=August 1998 |publisher=Graduate Program in Music, Kanazawa University |isbn=978-4-9980684-1-9 |language=en}}</ref>

Presenter [[Mike Douglas]] commented in a 1975 interview, "During my days in the Navy in [[World War II]], I remember walking the streets of Calcutta, India, on the coast; it was a lonely night, so far from my home and from my new wife, Gen. I needed something to lift my spirits. As I passed a Hindu sitting on the corner of a street, I heard something surprisingly familiar. I came back to see the man playing one of those old Vitrolas, like those of RCA with the horn speaker. The man was listening to Bing Crosby sing, "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive". I stopped and smiled in grateful acknowledgment. The Hindu nodded and smiled back. The whole world knew and loved Bing Crosby."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglas |first1=Mike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNqqB1K0HUUC&q=Michael+Douglas+India+Calcutta+Bing+Crosby |title=I'll be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show |last2=Kelly |first2=Thomas |last3=Heaton |first3=Michael |date=2000 |publisher=Thorndike Press |isbn=978-0-7862-2358-9 |language=en}}</ref> His popularity in India led many Hindu singers to imitate and emulate him, notably Kishore Kumar, considered the "Bing Crosby of India".<ref>{{cite book |last=Plantenga |first=Bart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWzaAAAAQBAJ&q=bing+crosby+&pg=PA111 |title=Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World |date=September 13, 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-71665-2 |language=en}}</ref>

Throughout Europe and Russia, Crosby was also known as "Der Bingle", a pseudonym coined in 1944 by Bob Musel, an American journalist based in London, after Crosby had recorded three 15-minute programs with Jack Russin for broadcast to Germany from ABSIE.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/Chapter_6.htm#Year_1944|title=Day by Day by Malcolm Macfarlane, see August 31, 1944}}</ref>