Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

Guy Lombardo is holding the Orchestra leaders wand.
Carmen Lombardo sits in the front row in the leftmost seat either playing Sax/flute plus vocalizes.
Lebert Lombardo is the youngest of the brothers and sits in the last row on the leftmost side and plays the trumpet.
The two pianists are Buddy Brennan and Fred Chrysler.
Kenny Gardner is the primary vocalist.
Other band members include Cliff Grass and Fred Higman (Vocalists & musicians), Bill Flannigan (vocals & guitar) and Jeff Stouton (trombone obligato)
Uploaded by Mister Stereo (misterstereo) to his allowed videos channel
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

[@pauljevert1450]

Guy Lombardo was a gentleman who had CLASS and STYLE ! I met him in 1977 at one of his evening band gig's ! A real gentleman and personable individual who gave you a nice few minutes of his time while he was working ! I miss this great music and showmanship of the Sweet Band's and their great era !

[@bobchafin9868]

I have loved Guy all my life

[@pm2007est]

This is some of the greatest music of all time

[@joematula2824]

My New Years Ever is never complete without listening to Guy Lombardo!

[@Tbpker22]

They were simply the greatest!

[@sodality3970]

I have some of their 78 recordings from the 1920's . They played hot jazz back then !

[@user-pk2oj8oi1w]

Yup...it really was the "sweetest music this side of heaven.". What a treat to still be able to listen to it again !!!

[@ZacharyWhite25]

I wished all PBS stations in the U.S. would put this back on the air! I'm 19 years old and I grew up listening to Guy Lombardo. I'd take Guy Lombardo, Lawrence Welk, and Tennessee Ernie Ford over Downtown Abbey any day!

[@elainekomara8555]

You said it! Me too..

[@ZacharyWhite25]

@@elainekomara8555 believe it or not, I've been in a long-winded fight with my local PBS station for the last six years now to try and get Guy Lombardo, Lawrence Welk, or Tennessee Ernie Ford back on. However, they have been giving me the cold/stiff shoulder. So much for showing what the "public" wants. For me here in the DFW area, it's KERA that's our PBS affiliate. Thank God some of the episodes live here on KZbin.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@ZacharyWhite25 -- de music man! Good going Zachary, but it's some rough-slogging in these days. You are right, Y-T is a refuge for very much of the recent-to-ancient past alright. (You might consider recording for archiving some of the rarer items, you just never know.) Did you know that Satchmo himself said he counted the Lombardos as one of his favorite outfits! Apparently, he had also a penchant for sweet as well as his smokin' hot!

[@ZacharyWhite25]

@@jamesmiller4184 I have twelve VHS tapes full of the Guy Lombardo series from many years ago when it was on my local PBS station. I even began collecting vinyl records too. Music that will one day be passed on to my future kids. Guy Lombardo will be a name in my household at least. No auto tune, no lip syncing, real live music. That’s what I love about the Royal Canadians. The first bit of music I listened to as a toddler. I wasn’t even a year old when I found Guy Lombardo. From what my parents have told me, I somehow found out how to use the TV remote when I was a tot. I was flipping around the channels and landed on my local PBS station that happened to be showing this at that time. From what my Mom told me, when I found this, I stopped and was mesmerized by the music. I’m not kidding when I say I grew up listening to Guy Lombardo and I was born in the late 1990’s.

[@jimtomassetti8928]

When I was little my folk's would go out on New Years and I would have to go to my Grandmother's house she would all way's have Guy Lombardo on. Good ol tunes🎉

[@cheri238]

My parents loved this and so did I as a child. 💗 Big fan of Lawrence Welk and Tennessee Ernie Ford. What talent these musicians are!!!

[@user-pk2oj8oi1w]

What a pleasure to hear this music again. Thank you !❤

[@williamhenry9609]

Why dont they feature Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians on television, and other media forms 2022. What a wonderful change that will be.

[@one2have1]

GREATLY ENJOYABLE**** I grew up in the early fifties to Como, Fisher, Stafford and Page. In those days the hits by Guy Lombardo were considered oldies Loved them then and still do. Fabulous medley. Thanx so much...

[@johnrhansonsr]

Thank you!

[@algirdkap]

I enjoy this music, and I enjoy all different types. It kills me that this is "good music" to some. It was no more accepted by parents in the day of these tunes than rock and roll was in mine. Good ole Days are all relevant.

[@terenceheslop8690]

As a youth in the forties Guy Lombardo's band was very much appreciated but we did'nt get very much of his music.I just liked his arranging.How nice it is to go back to the forties and listen to all of these recordings. So perfect.Brings back all those radio days.So nostgaldic.Music really was music in those days. Thanks to the uploaders. T. Heslop. East Yorkshire.

[@melissasmith4834]

This comes from an old 1950s TV show, entitled, I believe, "The Guy Lombardo Show," a weekly network feature. It has been re-broadcast on several public stations. Is this band great, or what?!

[@spencersmith2798]

Victor was the youngest of the Lombardo brothers in the Royal Canadians orchestra; he played baritone sax as well as soprano sax.

[@roxanneroxanadanna290]

Just fabulous. Anyone wondering where Lawrence Welk got his method need look no further than this marvelous video.

[@michaeleggleston6873]

A lot of my "baby-boomer" generation seemed to think that Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians were "corny", but I've always enjoyed their "swing" versions of some of the older tunes. Interesting how the pianists do a lot of "boogie-woogie" licks on some of these classics. They were truly a dance band when folks went to clubs to dance and enjoy this great music.

[@225marklin3]

When I was growing up, they were corny And that was a big part of their charm.

[@jamespatterson2846]

Timeless music!

[@janettewalker3991]

Have big list of my Lombardo favourites and will add this posting. Thank you so much,very enjoyable for this fan.

[@lowellthomasjr.468]

Basie, Miller, Ellington, Kenton...all were great, however, this band is SOOOO SWEEET , even Rob Thomas might love singing with THIS band !

[@BobFarnell]

Now this is traditional Jazz

[@Lytton333]

I like shining my shoes to this..

[@fromthesidelines]

Guy filmed 78 episodes of a weekly half-hour syndicated series from 1954 through '56.

[@e.goldie6143]

Ya gotta love this one! It's a classic

[@BSVFavoriten]

What a great sound! Where are the orchestras of today? It's a scandal, that you can't hearthis music on radio today. No wonder that it was chosen nearly 86.000 times. Thank's for presenting this disk! Alfred from Vienna

[@johngalvin6010]

Well you can now www.1950sukradio.co.uk/ enjoy

[@williamhenry9609]

I think Kelly Gardner is so cool. Sadly there are no male singers of his calibre around today.

[@fumingriley]

Really great seeing this "sweet" band again. As a couple posters below mention this is from the "Guy Lombardo Show" recorded at the Roosevelt hotel in NYC sometime in the mid-50's I believe. My local PBS station aired these shows in the past couple years. It's nice to see the crowd dressed in nice suites and dresses enjoying a night of dancing.

[@jtls8]

Thank you for uploading Lloyd! One of the all time best big bands!! That was a great era in music!!!!!

[@johnprunier9044]

Great music.

[@chuckberger3196]

Sometime in the 50's my father would take me to the Waldorf to watch the band practice. He was a friend of Fred "Derf" Higman who played sax and clarinet as well as sang in the trio.

[@tabithascheuermann5817]

+Chuck Berger I and played the trumpet was a friend of guy and lebe s lebe was the youngest

[@wadetitcombe9971]

You are so lucky. The closet thing I ever got to such fun was watching my Grandfather and all my uncles play bluegrass music on our back porch on weekends.

[@George-yt2rs]

The band wasn't the same when Derf departed.

[@myfavoritethespian8199]

I'm fourteen and i love this stuff my dad says my mind is older than him

[@vitalydubrovin6396]

In fact your mind is young, but your music taste is good and mature.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

You know good music. I’ve been listening to Guy Lombardo since I was only a year old. And I’m about to be 21 now. This stuff is classic, doesn’t deserve to fade into a memory. This music will live forever as long as there are people who still love it.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Well Thespian, you are now twenty! Congrats! Still listening? Hope-so. Cheers!

[@George-yt2rs]

You must be 21 now. Keep finding more Lombardo 😊

[@LoveFlatfootin1]

Thank you for posting this! It made my New Year's Eve. My family always loved Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve show, broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC. When Guy Lombardo left, he took New Year's Eve with him.

[@JoanLorraineN]

This is GREAT! New Year's Eve has never been the same since Guy Lombardo is gone!! Forget Dick Clark and all the other crap that's on TV now!

[@Crockerish]

AMEN to that.

[@lechkwiecinski7721]

Guy Lombardo was the greatest. It is the real beginning of Pop Music. Imagenie, find peaple who play it as heavy metal! I it is realy possible. Guy Lombardo is simply the best! I like Rolling Stones. I like Rammstein and eaven Roxette! but GL is the idea of music! Lk.

[@bobhelmich711]

GREAT MUSIC. The only time you hear GOOD music is on TOUTUBE.

[@ignacioaltuna785]

Todo un maestro! Un director singular, que aunaba un alto sentido de musicalidad, junto al don de identificar claramente lo que la gente gustaba bailar y escuchar, más -por qué no- una buena dosis de habilidad comercial... Todo ello era sin dudas un mix interesante para tener una banda que durante décadas estuvo entre las preferidas, desde los '30 hasta mediados de los '50, articulando una larga continuidad entre las orquestas de baile, las bandas swing y finalmente a los herederos del imperio Miller-Goodman y todas las swing band (algunas más jazzísticas, otras levemente más comerciales). El señor Lombardo fue con su rostro cinematográfico un elevado exponente de la heredad ítalo-americana y su orquesta, que tenía algo de todas, pero que era distinta a todas las demás... Un recuerdo cálido para esos Royal Canadians y su carismático director... Chau! Desde BA, Nacho!

[@JMDewald]

Great video, thanks for the upload. Big fan of Gardner.

[@MisterStereo]

A big thank you to all who have commented!!

[@frankgonzalez3775]

very classy

[@garyharris1932]

Slow boat to China...the author of this song was playing cards with some friends and was winning. Someone said to the author of this song, "I would like to get you on a slow boat to China". Guy was a speedboat racer.

[@geena6]

The good old days weren't they Lloyd. This was so enjoyable to watch. Made me get the broom again Lloyd and had a nice twirl LOL!!!!! Many thanks Georgina

[@desertbob6835]

The Lombardo brothers started in the early '20s....WAAAAY before the Swing Era...and kept on chuggin' ALL the way through the '70s. All the big stars of the Swing Era held their noses saying that his brother Carmen's arrangements, with those syrupy saxes and boop-boop-be-doop trumpet stabs were "corny" and "old hat," being mostly right out of the 1920s, but The Royal Canadians kept posting hit after hit after hit on the Billboard Hot 100 all the way thorugh the '50s. That's a record unsurpassed by any other big band of that time. In 1950 he had FOUR records in the Billboard Hot 100 all in the same year. The scenes here are from the '50s, during which time Lombardo had a weekly radio program on CBS, "Guy Lombardo Time", a summer replacement for The Jack Benny Program.

[@janettewalker3991]

Now is the hour is particularly meaningful herein NZ - :-)

[@desertbob6835]

Who says that Guy's gang couldn't swing it when they wanted? That version of "Darktown Strutters" is one of the hottest out there.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

DeserT BoB that is my favorite version of Darktown Strutters Ball too! I wished I could stick my hand back in time and pull Guy and his band into 2018. Why? So I can enjoy this music live and in person since I wasn’t born until 1997.

[@weeyin1155]

A great mix here Lloyd. Enjoyed Roamin In The Gloamin especially. I hope your doing well my friend. Thank you. ♥

[@macastilloi1]

Con esta música siente uno bailar en las nubes....

[@johngregreid1]

Thank you for posting this video. It is sad to see how far music has deteriorated from these good old days. As a boy I would watch my mom and dad dance to these great old songs.

[@eugenioscano5506]

The Great Big Band Era 1950

[@eudeves]

Thanks for all that information...

[@NoelGuyALfan]

@perwalden57... That is Frank indeed, Fred Kreitzer (not the car!) on the far piano playing main straight part,Buddy with all the tinkling trilly stuff :-) Victor the youngest bro on Baritone,Soprano Sax & claninet on end next to Fred Derf Higman on Tenor Sax... Lebert on first Tpt was the third born sibling,Carm the second,Guy the eldest.. born to lead! Thank you Lloyd,beautiful youtube additions you produce :-) Cheers Noel.

[@jedgould5531]

Thanks for some details!

[@bobrivers7042]

thank God for this fantastic music} and the fond memoies it brings. May God bless us. This Wk.end should have our answers ,May 9 2917 I love you Miss Bea, [2017]

[@rozels6152]

Guy Lambardo was referenced in the TV Show "Better call saul" (Season 1)

[@TheOldOakSyndicate]

They used to play this kind of stuff on my NPR station called "Swingin' Sunday Nights", until the host retired and they got some young hipster to replace him.

[@fasbc]

Great upload!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Notice here -- no string bass -- only a tuba! That was part-and-parcel of the Lombardo Sound, like it or not.

[@George-yt2rs]

Love the tuba sound. With its harmonics it enhanced the brass section and gave the band a bigger warmer sound.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@George-yt2rs 👍

[@AnthropoidOne]

This is makin me want a Jelly roll....

[@AnthropoidOne]

***** This stuff is really catchy...unlike a lot of the big band era...

[@VictrolaJazz]

+Donnoha That's because Guy played the melody and avoided the horrible, blaring tuneless sounds of most big bands.

[@joemart4799]

Отдушина от всего, что творится на Украине. Гай Ломбардо, вы лучшие!!!

[@richrauch]

Thanks for sharing this! Since we're surrendering the DVR today, I transferred 19 episodes of the public TV series (from 2011-2012) to DVDs last night. I met Guy Lombardo in the autograph line after a show at the Masonic Temple in Davenport, Iowa, around 1975. He impressed me as a kind gentleman who sincerely appreciated the fans. I wish I'd been more familiar with the band at the time (I never knew these shows existed before the '98-'99 repackaging with Al Pierson hosting), as I'm sure meeting them would have been a thrill, too.

[@Crockerish]

Sure miss him on New Years,I won"t even watch the crap they put on now,GL as good as gets.

[@PotterPossum1989]

What's the source of this material? Thanks!

[@NaomiWadsworth]

This is so pretty, Lloyd. Nice sentiment. I have not been very familiar with Guy Lombardo until now. He is great! Love the old-tme music and dancers. Which one of the guys is he? I suspect an older one. Thank you for sending this great tune. Naomi

[@NaomiWadsworth]

@NaomiWadsworth - Thanks for the info., Lloyd. A multi-talented family wasn't it? Impressive. Naomi

[@gregschuma]

Waldorf Astoria Hotel

[@randye7097]

They have junk on New Years Eve now.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

Tell me about it. I wished they’d dig more of Guy’s tapes out of archives and air those instead of what the networks do now on New Years Eve.

[@walterweddle7644]

@@ZacharyWhite25 Exactly!

[@fuerstmetternich5935]

Bill Flannigan plays a slack key guitar, with that sound?...... by the way this selection got a lot of great songs together.....

[@chuckberger3196]

I thought Victor was the youngest brother. He was playing the sax at the far end.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

Chuck Berger Carmen was the youngest, but unfortunately he died first.

[@generationll]

Pretty nice.I need you now was later done by Eddie Fisher

[@TobSk8erBoy]

This is awesome :) What year was this recorded?

[@2009framat]

good time music. BTW Johnny "Running Bear" Preston died a few days ago. Framat

[@AndrewHartSK]

Do you happen to know where to find an episode guide for the Guy Lombardo Show?

[@Navisworker]

This music is an outrage!

[@skylarks1]

+Navisworker I suppose you like rap garbage!!

[@lescroft9142]

You were born in the wrong age of good manners' I'm 82 years old like some of your decade but would not criticize a great decade' the Roaring twenties before I was born' is the hottests of them all ' Flappers & Sheiks' sit back & learn SONNY!!!.

[@ZacharyWhite25]

I’m about to be 21 and this is music I grew up loving thanks to PBS. I love Guy Lombardo. This is real music, not that fake stuff new age artists are putting out now. Clean lyrics and true dancing music.

[@francescodamato2139]

Can anyone tell the year of this video?

[@ZacharyWhite25]

Francesco Damato 1955

[@jamesderiven1843]

What year is this?

[@desertbob6835]

1950

[@donmcgowan2128]

I wish I could find a KZbin of "Where or When", my all-time Lombardo favorite. If anyone knows where I can find it, please send me an email to gmail.com

[@suemead5160]

Fred Kreitzer, not Fred Chrysler

[@byrondickerson2353]

I have this 33 record for sale

[@perwalden57]

Could the other trombonistplayer be the "old" third trombonist with Glenn Millers civilianband Frank D´Annolfo? Looks liké him....

[@ZacharyWhite25]

Per-Olof Wallden yes it is Frank D.

[@Tipledan]

Is that MY left or his left?

[@thetomatoman9292]

Think it's 1955

[@desertbob6835]

'54 or '55. He was also a summer replacement for The Jack Benny Program on CBS ealier.

[@CatchingCharkraLight]

I would have liked to have walked in with a beautiful black woman on my arm, or even better a First Nations Woman. Lol

[@jesussalva9767]

This was the era of dreary and boring music

[@jamesmiller4184]

Not dreary to most of that time and now, even. The brothers and the Royal Canadians were immensely successful and popular, all dying as millionaires! (Try THAT with non-boring music! For forty years, they always were busy.)

[@user-pk2oj8oi1w]

And it was music...not noise with profanities and words(?) that you can't understand.