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Word: lombardos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite important that the arranger be thoroughly familiar with individual talent in the band in order to obtain aforementioned results. For example an arrangement for Cab Calloway might be of little value to Lombardo and vice versa...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miracle in The Bronx | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle of faith. I will report it to the Chancery Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miracle in The Bronx | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Radio Theatre, CBS. Substitutes, starting July 17: Hollywood Gabster George McCall; Guy Lombardo's orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vacationers | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...peristalsis in fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey, Fannie Brice, Judy Starr. Along with the itty fitties, fat Saxie Dowell fam into such fame that he is now thinking of leaving Hal Kemp and starting a band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Itty Bitty Fitties | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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