[1] Bing and Larry's mom: Katie (Catherine "Kate Crosby")... "not only baked a wonderful pie, but sang like a bird, and it was common gossip when she was out rowing on the lake, that either Katie Harrigan or an angel is out there singing."

His parents were English-American bookkeeper Harry Lillis Crosby Sr. (1871–1950) and Irish-American Catherine Helen "Kate" Harrigan (1873–1964), daughter of a builder from County Cork, Ireland.

Larry Crosby married Elaine Catherine Couper on May 4, 1926, in Wallace, Idaho.

Larry's son, Jack Crosby (1927–2015), was the art director on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital for 17 years.

Larry died of cancer in the Century City area of Los Angeles on February 7, 1975, at the age of 80.

Larry Crosby is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.

Music Maids were some in of Bing's shows like: Broadway Melody of 1940, Hit Parade of 1943, Hoosier Holiday (1943), Girl Crazy (1943), Yolanda and the Thief (1945), and Riff Raff (1947).

Bing died in 1977, but the tournament had continued in his honor by his wife Kathryn Crosby.

Larry and Bing founded the non-profit organization Dixie Lee Crosby Memorial Foundation, which aids cancer research on December 27, 1952.

Bing and Larry invested in: Auroratone films, window-sash holders, automatic coffee dispensers, Minute Maid frozen orange juice, and the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club, Del Mar Turf Club, Del Mar Racetrack, US Army Signal Corpsman Jack Mullin's experimental magnetic audiotape (used on his show), 2-inch Quadruplex videotape, real estate, mines, oil wells, cattle ranches and many other investments.

In 1948 Bing Crosby Enterprises was awarded the distributorship right for Ampex recorders and the 3M tape west of the Mississippi River.

Bing used two Magnetophon to audio record the Crosby Show, working with Jack Mullin as Chief Engineer.

3M had a new product black oxide plastic-backed magnetic tape that gave good recordings.

[23] On 11 November 1951 Ampex and Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrated the first playback from the prototype BCE Mark I recorder at 360 ips.

Color video capable, BCE Mark III VTR was demonstrated in June 1955 used 100 ips on half-inch tape using longitudinal recording.