Guy Lombardo
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Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique sweet jazz style remained popular with audiences for nearly five decades.
Lombardo in 1944
The Lombardo brothers: Lebert, Carmen, Guy, and Victor, circa 1931
Lombardo, his brothers, and sister Rose Marie, 1954
Lombardo at the helm of Tempo VI, circa 1947.
Auld Lang Syne
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"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, or New Year's Eve. It is also often h
Guy Lombardo
…Hotel in New York City as "radio's first nationwide New Year's Eve broadcast". Invariably, each broadcast closed with Lombardo's rendition of the song Auld Lang Syne as part of the annual New Year's Eve tradition. The broadcasts proved to be immensely popular and continued from this venue until 1959 when they were…
John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841
Robert Burns
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Fireworks at Edinburgh's Hogmanay