The club's mission is to perpetuate the memory and the musical legacy of Bing Crosby for the benefit of future generations.
The ICC produces the professionally printed 56-page magazine BING[1] which is issued in spring, summer and winter each year.
The ICC also assisted the BBC Radio 4 team in 2006 with their program about Bing Crosby's appearance at the London Palladium For One Night Only.
[7] More recently, ICC members contributed to the PBS documentary Bing Crosby: Rediscovered shown in December 2014.
radio book,[10] Frans van der Kolff's "Songography"[11] and Keith Parkinson's "The A-Z of Bing’s Movies"[12] can all be accessed.
After her resignation in 1971, her role was taken over by Priscilla Koernig of San Francisco and Pat Sullivan of Chico, California who jointly guided the club until 1980.
During their years of leadership, Priscilla and Pat met with Bing Crosby personally during his annual Pro-Am Golf Tournament to interview him for the journal and update the membership on his activities.
In 1987, Mark Scrimger of Parma, Michigan, an avid collector of everything Crosby, became president and he was supported by Wayne Martin of Kirkwood, Missouri who acted as vice-president and editor.
[14] Under the leadership of Al, Mark and Wayne, BINGANG evolved into a highly regarded publication featuring detailed research on the major aspects of Crosby's life and career.
By 1957 Frank was Active Co-President with Dorothy Hardiman and the club had acquired an Irish branch whose secretary was Johnny Hopkins.
The British fan club was reorganized in 1965 as the International Crosby Circle with an improved magazine called "BING," which was edited initially by Frank Murphy, followed by John Bassett in 1971, and Reg Bristo from 1975 to 1989.
Whilst Les Gaylor and Bert Bishop contributed to the magazine in handsome measure, Reg wrote most of the rest of the contents.
He duplicated the magazine (which was published at quarterly intervals), posted it, acted as Secretary and Treasurer as well as issuing club cassettes to raise funds.
After some 25 years of operation as a traditional fan club, the British International Crosby Circle was significantly reorganized in 1989 following Reg Bristo's resignation under a new management team, with Michael Crampton as Secretary/Treasurer of the club and Ken Crossland, and later Malcolm Macfarlane, as editor of a revamped "BING" magazine rededicated principally toward scholarly research about Bing Crosby's life and career.