Word: lombardos
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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...
...Lombardo the convention was to be a feast of glory and justification. For weeks he had warmed up his farewell address. (Favorite line: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie.") On the convention's opening day, he delivered it with gestures, eloquently declared that the Avila Camacho regime was only a "modification in details" of Cárdenas' program. Equally eloquent was the inference that Lombardo, noted for his political agility, was leaving himself free to jump left or right...
...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...