Bob Crosby, younger brother of Bing Crosby, was a singer and bandleader best known for his group the Bob-Cats. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet formed around 1935. Among the band members was Doris Day, hired as a vocalist in 1940. Bob Crosby spent 18 months in the Marines touring with bands in the Pacific during World War 2. He hosted a radio variety program, The Bob Crosby Show, from 1943 to 1950, and appeared on Club Fifteen, another radio program, featuring Crosby with the Andrews Sisters, from 1947 to 1953. Crosby also appeared on The Gisele MacKenzie Show and The Jack Benny Program, on both radio and television, eventually taking over the role of bandleader. Crosby hosted his own TV variety show, The Bob Crosby Show from 1953 to 1958. Crosby received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for television and radio. The Bob-Cats reunited throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing across the midwest. Crosby passed away in 1993 at the age of 80.