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	RUSS COLUMBO
		Russ would be regularly featured on records as his lead vocalist between 1929-1931 prior to making it big on his own.
		Columbo, undoubtedly sensitive to claims that he was a Crosby clone, attempted to focus on the differences between their vocal deliveries.
		Columbo, explaining that her son was unable to visit because he was performing in the major cities of Europe.
	www.shsu.edu /~lis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/support/crooner/Columbo2.htm (3686 words)

	Russ Columbo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Columbo was born in Camden, New Jersey, the twelfth child of Italian immigrant parents.
		Columbo's death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame.
		Russ Columbo is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russ_Columbo (402 words)

	CMT.com : Russ Columbo : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russ Columbo was born in New Jersey, and spent some of his formative years in Philadelphia before the family relocated to California when he was eight.
		Columbo was a violin prodigy from the age of five, and the move to California was made in part to accommodate his lessons.
		Russ Columbo signed up for a stint with NBC Radio on a coast-to-coast broadcast, and soon was being touted as "the Romeo of Radio." His popularity was immediate, and before the end of 1931 Columbo was playing to sold-out houses in New York theaters.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/columbo_russ/bio.jhtml (984 words)

	Russ Columbo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He sang and played violin in numerous (A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink) nightclubs.
		The type of singing that was popularized by the likes of Columbo, (additional info and facts about Rudy Vallee) Rudy Vallee, and (United States singer and film actor (1904-1977)) Bing Crosby is called (The act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner) crooning.
		On September 1, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, (Someone who takes photographs professionally) photographer Lansing Brown.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/russ_columbo.htm (375 words)

	Sammy Film Credits (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russ' singing voice was quite unique and he became the darling of the ladies.
		Columbo was on the road to becoming a motion picture star when, in 1934, a fatal accident cut short his career.
		Russ was visiting a friend who used a set of ancient dueling pistols as paper-weights.
	www.gmmy.com /crooners/columbo/introduction.htm (276 words)

	Hollywood Underground
		They told her that Russ had married Carole Lombard and was on tour in Europe.
		She would receive checks, being told by the family that they were from Russ but they were really payments from Russ's life insurance.
		Julia Columbo went to her grave never knowing her son had died, even though she had lost other children AND her husband in that ten years.
	www.hollywood-underground.com /columboruss.htm (320 words)

	Encyclopedia: Russ Columbo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On September 1, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown.
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		Lanza, Joseph and Dennis Penna. Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Russ-Columbo (867 words)

	washingtonpost.com: American Idols
		The story of how Columbo's family shielded his mother from his death gives rise to a chapter tracing mother songs from Civil War times to Eminem, and Columbo's fleeting appearance in the movie "Moulin Rouge" (1934) triggers a discussion of every subsequent movie of that title.
		The similarity in their voices has led to speculation that Columbo was the only one of Bing Crosby's peers who might have challenged his domination of radio, recordings and the movies during the 1930s and '40s.
		Columbo was not the instinctual entertainer that Crosby was, or as versatile a singer.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45744-2004Sep23?language=printer (916 words)

	Russ Columbo
		Russ Columbo spent most of Friday, August 31, 1934, at what would be his last session, recording the songs from Universal's Wake Up and Dream for the Brunswick label.
		Russ Columbo was born January 14, 1908, in Camden, New Jersey, the twelfth child of Italian immigrants Nicola and Giulia (aka Nicholas and Julia).
		Russ also appeared in two films as part of the Arnheim orchestra that year: in one, Columbo's amazing violin talent is heard, but it was Betty Compson who was seen fiddling on screen as The Street Girl.
	www.classicimages.com /1999/april99/columbo.html (4950 words)

	Modest obsession \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		While no Elvis or Johnson, Columbo was a talented, not to mention handsome, singer who managed during his tragically brief life to come into contact with any number of fascinating characters, from close rival Bing Crosby to actress-girlfriend Carole Lombard.
		Columbo was the second-chair violinist when rising-star Crosby guested with Gus Arnheim's band in 1930 Hollywood; his own vocal opportunities increased when bad-boy Bing was off on one of his binges.
		Mini-profiles of actors Pola Negri (Columbo serenaded her in her dressing room) and Greta Garbo (he was once linked to her in a blind item for the gossip columns) at least give an exotic flavor of the times, but a treatise on bird songs in popular music is, well, for the birds.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040829/news_mz1v29madnes.html (601 words)

	Feral House \| Titles \| Music \| Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique
		“A fascinating biog of Russ Columbo, AKA the Vocal Valentino… The crooners have never really had their day… and most peoples’ knowledge of the form starts and ends at Bing Crosby, who, according to this, owed a stylistic debt to Columbo anyway.
		In the early ’30s, Russ Columbo, dubbed the “Vocal Valentino,” rivaled Bing Crosby in a widely publicized “Battle of the Baritones.” He had looks, charm, and a beautiful voice to match his violin playing.
		Just two days after he attended a Hollywood sneak preview of the movie that gave him his first leading role, Columbo was killed by a wayward bullet—the climax in a chain of circumstances that were quirky, mysterious and sometimes downright maddening even after his death.
	feralhouse.com /titles/music/russ_columbo_and_the_crooner_mystique.php (368 words)

	Sicilian Culture: The People: Russ Columbo (Ruggiero Engerio de Rudolpho Columbo)
		While his close fried, a leading Hollywood photographer, was striking a match against the pistol the gun accidentally fired and the bullet ricocheted off a desk and struck Columbo in the head.
		Seriously ill at the time of the shooting and later blind, Columbo's mother was never told of her son's death.
		Columbo died in 1944, happy for her son's success.
	sicilianculture.net /people/columbo.htm (375 words)

	JS Online: Story of crooner takes rocker on sentimental journey
		Columbo was one of a handful of male balladeers in the late 1920s and early 1930s who captured the public imagination as a creature of the new, mass-mediated era: the crooner.
		Columbo seemed to have it all: good looks, a voice that melted women's hearts, a movie contract and even a movie-star girlfriend - Carole Lombard, who was soon to establish herself as one of Hollywood's top stars.
		In "You Call It Madness," Columbo comes across as a uniquely American figure: of the moment but rooted in the past, eager for recognition and eager to please, ambitious but uncertain about what he wants or where he wants to be.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/oct04/264763.asp (962 words)

	Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend Review: I'd heard about the legend of Russ Columbo's 1934 gunshot death, and visited his final resting place, before I'd ever heard him sing.
		Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend Review: When moving from one NYC apartment to another, my late brothers record collection and phonograph were destroyed This was 1935 and WW2 had not yet pulled us out of the depression, so these items could not be replaced.
		Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend Review: This well researched biography of singer Russ Columbo, who, had he lived, could have rivaled Crosby and Sinatra, provides a thorough look at Columbo's life, career, and death.
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	New York Daily News - City Life - Big Town Songbook: Crooner style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But it was a fight that would not go the distance, a fight that was over even before Russ Columbo's best friend accidentally fired a bullet into Columbo's brain on Sept. 2, 1934, making the young singer's most prominent legacy a spot on the list of American idols who lived fast and died young.
		Columbo and Crosby both sang in a newly emerged style, a soft, relaxed tone that became possible in 1925 with the development of electronic recording.
		Columbo Crosby got to be friends, singing with each other, often imitating each other.
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/story/238013p-204242c.html (927 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Russ Columbo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russ Columbo was a popular romantic crooner of the 1920s and early 1930s.
		Often referred to as "Radio's Valentino," Columbo was so popular he was immortalized in a song of the day, "Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee." Born Ruggerio de Rudolpho Columbo, he became a concert violinist,; vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader.
		Columbo appeared in a few films and had just signed with Universal Pictures for a series of musicals when he was tragically killed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200243 (204 words)

	The Russ Columbo Book Page
		Here is the amazing untold story of Hollywood singing legend Russ Columbo, his life and unusual death on the street of dreams.
		Told against a backdrop of the volatile entertainment industry of the 1920's and 30's, when movies began to talk and radio broadcasting was rapidly approaching its zenith, author Lou Miano thoroughly explores Russ Columbo's extraordinary career in great detail and within the historic context of those uncertain times of the Great Depression.
		Columbo's spectacular rise to fame after a fateful meeting with a future Academy Award winning composer.
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	Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Miano successfully balances information about Columbo's life with stories surrounding the events of his tragic death, always treating his subject with objective dignity while also tenaciously addressing the hard and often heartbreaking questions with taste.
		Also, because Columbo was romantically involved with actress Carole Lombard at the time of his death, this book would also be of interest to her many fans who will learn more about their relationship and Lombard's continued devotion to Columbo's ailing mother after his death.
		I would whole-heartedly recommend this biography of Russ Columbo to anyone interested in reading a well-rounded portrait of this musical artist and gentleman whose voice was silenced far too soon.
	e-acting.com /isbn0967797012.html (664 words)

	Amazon.com: Prisoner of Love: Music: Russ Columbo
		Buy this album with Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend by Lou Miano today!
		Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique by Joseph Lanza
		Save the Last Dance for Me ~ Russ Columbo
	www.amazon.com /Prisoner-Love-Russ-Columbo/dp/B000001HKC (228 words)

	Russ Columbo b
		The son of an Italian theatre musician, Columbo played accordion and violin while still at school.
		A later addition to the band was Bing Crosby, who proved to be Columbo's main rival along with Rudy Vallee.
		Brown accidentally lit the powder which was still in one of the guns, and Columbo died, shot in the head.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio10/russ_columbo_b.htm (245 words)

	Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The book goes a long way toward helping to properly place Russ Columbo as much more than a "Bing-impersonator"--a place he has been undeservedly relegated to by the few who remember him at all.
		Columbo was no Sinatra, let alone an Einstein, but his very opaqueness and vanity is fascinating in its own right.
		The materials on which the authors based their book are very thorough, but no one is ever going to give Russ Columbo the Stephen hawking award for brains, so page after page of his intimate correspondence, and that of his brain-dead pals, palls after a little while.
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	Tools : You Call It Madness : The Sensuous Song of the Croon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lenny Kaye's marvellous biography of 1930's crooner Russ Columbo is as much a scholarly and enjoyable study of the man himself, as it is an evocation of this fascinating era in American cultural history.
		Whether you approach this work from an interest in Russ Columbo himself, or in 1930's Americana, you will not be disappointed, and if you also enjoy great prose styling it is highly recommended.
		The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee : Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick...
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	NIAF MileStones
		Russ Columbo, the first in a long line of impressive popular male singers that includes Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett.
		Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (Russ Columbo), born in 1908 in San Francisco was the first of this group.
		Known as the "Romeo of the Airwaves" Colombo, whose soft baritone voice set the stage for later singers, was a major rival of Bing Crosby.
	www.niaf.org /milestones/year_1932.asp (275 words)

	Popular Music and Society: The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee
		The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee Michael Pitts and Frank Hoffmann with the assistance of Dick Carty and Jim Bedoian Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2002 ix + 319 pp., ISBN 0-810-84081-2
		The careers of six performers--Austin, Columbo, Crosby, Lucas, Marvin, and Vallee--are examined with emphasis on their part in the origin and development of the crooning tradition.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_2_27/ai_n6123916 (960 words)

	Someday it happened that Russ Columbo has found out about and visited Kurri Kurri . Russ Columbo considered Kurri Kurri ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Someday it happened that Russ Columbo has found out about and visited Kurri Kurri.
		Russ Columbo considered Kurri Kurri to be one of the most beutiful places in the world.
		If you ever saw Russ Columbo playing, you have seen the beauty and power of human spirit.We think that it is proper to bring an homage to Russ Columbo.
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		Russ Columbo: The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a Hollywood Singing Legend
		Along with Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo was the model crooner of the late 1920s, with a smoothly sentimental ballad style.
		But unlike most crooners, Columbo not only wrote and sang songs about lovestruck dreamers but also lived out such stories, unable or unwilling to separate art from life.
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	Mysterious Circumstances Page in Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory
		Russ was buried on October 17, 1934-this delay was caused by his family's debate on telling Julia Colombo her son was dead.
		Russ is interred in the Sanctuary of the Vespers of the Great Mausoleum.
		Russ rests about a quarter of the way into the Sanctuary on the left side, about 8 feet from the floor.
	www.elvispelvis.com /mysteriouscircumstances.htm (5139 words)

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