Sing, You Sinners

Bing Crosby is nearly ne’er-do-well brother Joe, quite innocently escorting his older brother’s fianceè (Ellen Drew) at a night club where the band leader (Harry Barris) coaxes him into a song, an original by John Burke and James V. Monaco, in Paramount’s Sing You Sinners, 1938.

Exposition in the Beebe household, Fred MacMurray as eldest brother Dave, Elizabeth Patterson as mom, Donald O’Connor as little Mike and Bing Crosby as the less-reliable younger brother Joe, though he was several years older than MacMurray, early in Paramount’s Sing You Sinners, 1938.

Fred MacMurray, who got his start as a singer and sax player, as oldest brother Dave, reluctantly joins Joe (Bing Crosby), who has no regular job but who got the gig, young Donald O’Connor completing the brother-act, tune by John Burke and James V. Monaco, in Paramount’s Sing You Sinners, 1938.