NEW : `` It was `` love at first song , '' the biography quotes Bob Hope as saying . She was the First Lady of the USO , '' Carol Channing says . She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was singing at a New York club . He asked her to sing for him and his wife on their honeymoon cruise. Bob Hope was 100 when he died in 2003 .
NEW : `` She was the First Lady of the USO , '' Carol Channing says . She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was singing at a New York club . He asked her to sing for him and his wife on their honeymoon cruise. Bob Hope was 100 when he died in 2003 .