Word: lombardos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia led a band for a refugee benefit at Madison Square Garden. Among his bandsmen: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Eddy Duchin, Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye...
...Lombardo (Decca) called his version Concerto...
...picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like. It's as if he chanced to be walking by the studio when some-one poked his head out of the door and said, "Hey, you. Carmen Lombardo just saw a mouse and fainted. Do us a favor and take his vocal chorus." So Bing said, "Sure." It was as if he made the record because he happened to be the only one around. He just sang the tune, in other words, the way you would while washing...
...even Lombardo's exit was spoiled. Three days after his speech, President Avila Camacho put in a surprise appearance at the convention, neatly stole the show. Marching down the aisle to the blare of a truck-drivers' band, he mounted the platform, embraced his townsman Lombardo, then turned and lectured...