Guy Lombardo
New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

MCA 8-Track
MCAT-15000
Year: 1966/67/68/69&70-71

Program One
The Music Goes Round and Round · Medley (Shine on Harvest Moon, My Gall Sal, Seems Like Old Times) · I want a girl · Medley (Sing Until the Cows Come Home, Hail Hail the Gang's All Here, Hot Time in the old Town Tonight)
Program Two
When You're Smiling  · Medley (The Band Played On · Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis) · Auld Lang Syne
Program Three
Happy Days are Here Again · Bye Bye Blues · Beer Barrel Polka · Medley (I'll Get By, It's Been a L:ong Time, That Old Gang of Mine)
Program Four
Bill Bailey · Show me the way to go home

This tape is a New Year's Eve party in a box! At least if these are the kind of songs you like to listen to on New Year's Eve. I'm sure this 8-track was used to bring in many a New Year...getting the track cued up to Auld Lang Syne...counting down the clock with the other drunken partiers...then slamming the cartridge in the player at the stroke of midnight!

Guy Lombardo's band was founded in 1916, and although Guy died in 1977, the Lombardo Orchestra continues to play to this day and is credited as  the longest running act in show business history, now playing to the great grandchildren of the original fans. The band introduced over 500 hit songs, more than any other musical organization. The Lombardo New Year's Eve Party at NYC's famed Waldorf Historia Hotel was the longest running annual special program in radio history. 1979 marked their 50th consecutive broadcast.

On television they performed for more than 1.5 billion viewers since they first telecast their New Year's Eve Party in 1954.

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