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...year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size of the local population...
...reader of the New York Times looked hard at a seven-column ad for Macy's last week. The headline: UMPDY-UMP and UMPDY-UMP IN PERSON TODAY AT MACY'S TV AND MUSIC HIT PARADE. Next to this nonsense was an unidentified photograph of Bandleader Guy Lombardo...
...curious telephone callers, Macy's gave an embarrassed explanation. It had sent the ad to the Times with the dummy words "umpdy-ump," which were to be filled in when the store lined up a star to appear at the record counter. After Lombardo signed up, his picture was added to the ad, but nobody remembered to change the type...
Next day, Macy's took an ad to explain and to apologize to Lombardo. "We will happily take . . . orders on [Lombardo records]," it concluded. "We will also take a running jump in the lake...
...Royal Canadians' favorite fan is Mama Lombardo, who now lives in Connecticut and never misses a broadcast or a record. Papa Lombardo, who once sang at church socials in Ontario, has never yet really come around. Once, after a broadcast, Guy phoned and asked him how he liked it. Papa muttered noncommittally. When Guy pressed him, he finally snapped : "If you're looking for compliments, I'll put your mother...