Nancy and I are not be having our semi-annual NYE party this year. Our party guests tell us they are fun parties: noshing fancy nibbles and good wine upstairs, and later on it's beer cans and wild dancing downstairs in the disco with Yours Truly spinning and mixing vinyl. Guy Lombardo, I have read, along with his three brothers, are rumored to have sold between 100 and 300 million phonograph records during their lifetimes. His first recording session took place where Bix Beiderbecke made his legendary recordings, in Richmond, Indiana, at the Gennett Studios — both during early 1924. Synonymous with ringing in the new year, Lombardo's orchestra played at the "Roosevelt Grill" in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City from 1929 to 1959, and their New Year's Eve broadcasts (which continued with Lombardo until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria) were a major part of New Year's celebrations across North America. Even after Lombardo's death, the band's New Year's specials continued for two more years on CBS.
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