Does anyone else remember Guy Lambardo....

[WCGreen]

And that the other two networks usually showed a mass or some kind of religious service at midnight?

And Times Square was so cheap and tawdry that no where near 700k people showed up for NYE...

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadiens

It's a vague memory at best, but... yeah.

[WCGreen]

2. His was the last of the surviving Big Bands ....

[bertha katzenengel]

3. I remember Guy Lombardo; my rents used to watch him on NY's Eve.

it's a vague recollection. when I was out of their clutches, i watched Dick Clark religiously.

Now i'm usually in bed before midnight. Not this time, though.

[WCGreen]

4. I remember staying up to watch with my grandma...

She always watched us when my folks went out...

She made a big deal about it...

It was exciting...

[RevCheesehead]

5. Of course.

I even remember a disastrous New Year's Eve with Barry Manilow. :scared:
AND, I remember when Dick Clark started the Rockin' NYE.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Yikes, WC

You are forcing me to give away my era! Yea, Guy Lombardo was a big part of the NY's Eve celebration in the Miss SeattleGirl household while growing up. I fear I am really dating myself!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. Well, I'll join the "dating yourself" club too.

Guy Lombardo was a big part of my childhood household as well.

Us "Boomers" have to stick together...

Happy New Year and here's to the Dems taking back at least one of the Houses of Congress in 2006 and hopefully both.

[WCGreen]

8. Yea... Take it back and put activism back in

the boomer lexion....

[NoPasaran]

9. I remember him too

My parents would always laugh at how "corny" his show was, but it wasn't New Year's without him.

[NashVegas]

10. Sadly, Yes

I remember when it was a choice between religious programming, Guy, and someting worse that escapes me at the moment. Perry Como?

[B Calm]

11. We're getting old

[bridgit]

12. as an icon of sorts, before my 'time proper' but hubby does...

Happy New Year, WC :toast:

[In_The_Wind]

13. I do. Guy Lambardo was the best thing on at that time.

I think Dick Clark looked wonderful after all he has been through.

[WCGreen]

15. I never liked Dick Clark... He was a pale immitation for me...

I seemed to have jumped from loving Guy Lombardo to Black Sabbath with no stop at the bandstand for Dick...

[In_The_Wind]

16. Black Sabbath is awesome.

I was simply commenting on Dick Clark's recovery from his stroke.

[WCGreen]

21. I was talking about the NYE telecast.....

[In_The_Wind]

22. Oops ...

sorry :blush:

[MrBenchley]

14. I do....

Even at the end, when Guy Lombardo was in his eighties, he looked and sounded better than Dick Clark did...

[USA_1]

17. Guy Lombardo

Yes, I remember him. Later on in his career critics said that his act was "square" --- a term of derision that isn't used anymore. Square or not, his show was popular years ago. Times have changed. You don't see all-white audiences with men in dark suits and ladies in white dresses and flowered hats dancing in blalrooms to welcome the New Year. Today the audience is integrated and the music is very different. So, Guy Lombardo has largely been forgotten --- but not entirely.

[babylonsister]

18. Yes! I grew up on the south shore of LI; his

brother lived down the beach. And we used to have a great X-mas album of his, though I've never been able to find it.
RIP, Guy.

[Algorem]

19. He was good as the dad on Lost In Space.

[WCGreen]

20. YEa, he was also Zorro.....

[Algorem]

24. & he quit after that show,if he'd let himself mature as an actor he could

have been another Victor Mature,but nooooo. And they find him 20 years later dead face-down in a bathtub in an Argentinian whorehouse.Tragic.+ I think he had some sucky dance band.

[graywarrior]

23. Yup. The only time you ever heard about Guy was on new year's

[oneighty]

25. Yes

Guy Lambardo was also a boat racing enthusiast. His Tempo series of step hydroplanes won many awards.

I saw his Tempo 4 or 5 race in Washington DC in 56. By that time the larger more powerful Gar Wood style hydroplanes were ruling the 'rooster tails' Slo-Motion 180 MPH on the straight with Miss Pepsi and Such Crust bringing up the rear. Tempo was far behind.

His music was excellent, his boats faster.

180

[jmowreader]

32. Guy was more than an "enthusiast"

Guy Lombardo won the APBA Gold Cup in 1946 as a driver. That race is the World Series of unlimited hydroplane racing.

He also won the 1948 Ford Memorial Competition.

[oneighty]

34. Yes

He did.

180

[Lefty48197]

26. An' a one, an' a two...

I sure do.

[amerikat]

37. That was Lawrence Welk

But I guess you are just pulling our collective leg.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Oh yes, I sure do remember Guy Lombardo.....

And the feelings I had as I watched Times Square as it seemingly got more and more degraded by the hoi polloi and all the rundown shops there...Everyone lamented how it was going downhill and nothing seemed to make it any better..

Midnight Mass on the tube.....

This is going back quite a ways into my childhood, WC.....a long time ago...


Memories....Happy New Year.....Things are better now, I think, for NYC...

[Left Is Write]

28. Yes. I'm old enough to remember seeing him on NYE.

And I keep a Guy Lombardo recording of Auld Lang Syne for the nostalgic feel. I play it every year on NYE or NYD.

[mtnsnake]

29. Yeah, when I was a kid, my parents would torture me with him!

No wonder there was such a generation gap back then.

Thank god for rock and roll.

[kskiska]

30. Oh, yes! Guy Lombardo was MR. New Year's Eve!

My parents would let me stay up late to watch the ball drop, and Guy Lombardo's band would play Auld Lang Syne from the Roosevelt Hotel, as oldsters danced the fox trot. It was the only game in town and oh, so sedate. I remember laughing with my mother one year when one of the middle-aged dancers hammed it up by wearing those glasses with the nose attached. That was about as outrageous as it got back then. My dream was to be in Times Square on New Year's Eve. I never was, though it was only an hour away. Sometimes we'd drive into the city the next day to see an empty Times Square and the tree at Rockefeller Center.

[swag]

31. Yes, yes, of course. And Johnny Carson would break away when

the ball dropped. Such a big deal.

Then Dick Clark's outfit came in and ruined it all with that "Rockin' Eve" bullshit.

[dryan]

33. Guy...

Lombardo and his Royal Canadians with the 'sweetest music this side of heaven'! Lombardo was a fixture on New Years Eve for years...frankly I think it was better than watching America's oldest teenager. FYI - the poster that talked about "Guy" dying in a bordello--that was the wrong 'guy'.

[jus_the_facts]

35. Yep...would watch him w/ my grandparents when I was a wee lass...

....every NYE untill he died. :hi:

[qnr]

36. Of course - though I never happened to think Times Square was

cheap and tawdry - it was fascinating to me, when I was a NYer.

Edit: s/thing/think/ (see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4543413&mesg_id=4543413 )

[amerikat]

38. I used to watch him when I lived in Japan

He went by the name Moo Goo Gai Lombardo.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: