* 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor ( b. 1902 )

Some bands were society bands that relied on strong ensembles but little on soloists or vocalists, such as the bands of Guy Lombardo and Paul Whiteman.

In later decades, the standard-bearers were bands and orchestras led by such luminaries as Guy Lombardo, Nelson Riddle, and television friendly singers like Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, and the cast of Your Hit Parade.

Guy Lombardo helped them out by arranging a place in South Bend, Indiana.

With the help of Guy Lombardo he traveled to Chicago to promote his new format at the Blackhawk in October 1936.

* 1978 Guy Lombardo, Oscar Peterson

Guy Lombardo and his band returned for only one more season, and was quoted as saying he had tried to strike a " new deal " with the Murchisons but had not succeeded.

Guy Lombardo died in 1977, the same year that real estate developer Frank E. Mackle III was elected president of a new venture called the Tierra Verde Company, a joint venture between Madonna Corporation ( a Murchison interest ), and Delverde ( Deltona ) Corporation.

After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour and on February 15, 1932 they became regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS.

Spillville is also the site of the Inwood Ballroom, established in 1920 and the destination of several popular 20th century musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo and The Byrds.

Guy Lombardo formed a popular dance band, which became an institution on New Year's Eve in NYC's Times Square.

Among those who frequented Mr. Lamb's establishment were Clark Gable, Guy Lombardo, the Prince of Wales and the Vanderbilts, who came to party and eat chingarora oysters, for which Raritan Bay was then famous.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Eve Arden, George Burns, Joan Collins, Roddy McDowell, Milton Berle, Guy Lombardo, Rudy Vallée, and Don Ameche were among the guests.

* Lombardoland – Guy Lombardo

Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

* December 31 – Guy Lombardo plays " Auld Lang Syne " for the first time

* Guy Lombardo

It was based on the 1933 song " Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore ," written by Joe Young, Johnny Burke, and Harold Spina, and popularized by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.

Gaetano Alberto " Guy " Lombardo ( June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977 ) was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.

Guy Lombardo is best known for almost a half-century of New Year's Eve broadcasts, first on radio, and then on television.

Beginning in 1958, Lombardo lent his name to and endorsed The Guy Lombardo Royal Fleet, a line of fiberglass boats manufactured and sold by the United States Boat Corporation of Newark, New Jersey, a division of the US Pools Corporation.

The Guy Lombardo Society is a society dedicated to preserving the music and history of Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians.

Other occult writers such as Guy Ballard and Alice Bailey have written that they have had out of body experiences and met mysterious beings inside of the earth.

Durham and Guy had met when they both worked in an advertising agency – initially Durham only sang periodically with the Seekers, when not performing at jazz clubs.

Through the remainder of the 13th century, French control over Flanders steadily increased until 1302 when an attempt at total annexation by Philip IV met a stunning defeat when Count Guy ( who had the support of the guilds and craftsmen ) rallied the townspeople and humiliated the French knights at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

Statues of legendary Green Lantern Corps members, including Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Arisia, and Ch ' p, line the hall where the Guardians formerly met.

Afterwards, they met with the Guardians of The Universe and newly promoted Sentinel Guy Gardner.

Theosophist Guy Ballard claimed to have met Saint Germain while hiking on Mt.

Steve Martin had a stand-up bit ( found on his A Wild and Crazy Guy recording ) in which he declared that a woman he'd met had " the best pussy.

During the so called " Hotel agreement ", signed on July 17, 2001, Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt met with Swissair boss Mario Corti, who agreed to inject € 258 million into SABENA.

After reconciling, Raymond and Guy met at Acre with the bulk of the crusader army.

On Sunday 20 May in the well-to-do Strand district of London, Catesby met with Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy and Guy Fawkes, at an inn called the Duck and Drake.

His longtime companion was NFB director Guy Glover, whom he met at the ballet in London in 1937.

In 1954 he met Guy Debord, who was to became a close friend.

She joined the Harlem Writers Guild, where she met several major African-American authors, including John Henrik Clarke, Rosa Guy, Paule Marshall, and Julian Mayfield, and was published for the first time.

She met her lifelong friend Rosa Guy and renewed her friendship with James Baldwin, whom she had met in Paris in the 1950s and called " my brother ", during this time.

There he met fellow musicians Lightning Hopkins, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doc Watson.

At the International Socialist Club, McKay met Shapurji Saklatvala, A. J. Cook, Guy Aldred, Jack Tanner, Arthur McManus, William Gallacher, Sylvia Pankhurst and George Lansbury.

The other group of about 2, 500 men from the suburbs of Bruges and the coastal areas, was headed by Guy of Namur, son of Count Guy, with the two sons of Guy of Dampierre ; the two groups met near Kortrijk.

In 1278, Guy of Jebail and the Templars assaulted Tripoli, but were met outside the walls by Bohemond.

Lead singer Guy Garvey met guitarist Mark Potter at Stand College in 1990 at the age of 16.

While working on MADtv, Borstein met Seth MacFarlane, who was then preparing to launch the animated sitcom Family Guy on FOX ( MacFarlane was originally supposed to create animated shorts for MADtv, but declined in favor of creating an independent series ).

In 2000, he met Guy Vidal who would become responsible for the series Poisson Pilote at Dargaud.