2008-10-09 - 1:44 p.m. I was doing a little research on songwriter Cindy Walker today, and found this anecdote (culled from her 2006 obituary). I love stories like this. In late 1940, the 22-year-old Walker accompanied her parents on a business trip to Los Angeles. They were driving down Sunset Boulevard, when she spotted the Crosby Building and asked her father to stop the car. "I had decided that if I ever got to Hollywood, I was going to try to show Bing Crosby a song I had written for him called 'Lone Star Trail,' " she recalled in a 1988 interview with the Chicago Tribune. "My father said, "You�re crazy, girl," but he stopped the car." Walker grabbed her song-filled briefcase and went inside. A few minutes later, she ran back to the car to get her mother to play the piano for her: Crosby's brother, Larry, had agreed to listen to the song. With her mother accompanying her, Walker sang "Lone Star Trail." Larry Crosby told her that Bing was looking for a Western song to record and might like it. The next day, she accompanied herself on the guitar and sang it for Bing at Paramount Studios, where he was making a movie. Bing Crosby, who called her "Sis," liked the song, and the unknown songwriter from Texas made her first sale. Walker was also the author of the beautiful song "You Don't Know Me." thoughts? (0 comments so far) previous - next blog archive contact