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Lebert always played with him.
Lombardo played in a band as a teenager in London, Canada which was his home town. It was a tradition in the community to end each evening with “Auld Lang Syne”. Later he put his own big band together.
He and his Royal Canadians became one of America’s’ most popular dance band from 1920 through 1950.
There was no link to New Years’ Eve until the band had a prom date at the University of Virginia. Cheers rose from the dance floor when the band played “Auld Lang Syne”. Unknowingly, the band had played the time to a school song.
This reaction convinced him to keep “Auld Acquaintance” in the repertory and especially on New Years’ Eve. Thus a tradition was bom.
For years thereafter broadcasting from the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, and later from the Waldorf Astoria, the Lombardo Band played “Auld Lang Syne” at the stroke of midnight as millions sang along, unable to translate the words, but sure of the sentiment.
Guy Lombardo died in 1977 and “Auld Lang Syne” has continued to be performed by various bands throughout the world, and has become the traditional song among English speaking people for bidding farewell to the old year and hailing the new year.
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