[78-L] Lombardo

[Taylor Bowie]

Thanks for the clarification, Stephen...I agree with you also that it did 
start to often wear thin by the 40s...that said,  one of my fave Lombardo 
records of all time is his Decca from around 1948 of Seems Like Old 
Times...something about the song and the arrangement really fits Guy's 
style.

Garber made more of a switch from time to time...and when he went sweet,  he 
went REALLY sweet...far cry from his Victors of '27 or his Columbias from 
'28 to '30.  I have Garber's Black & White label version of The Gypsy which 
is so over the top it almost sounds like a parody of sweet bands...of course 
I like it.

I wish you would send a link or post something on YouTube of your singing 
tribute to Carmen...that I would love to hear.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lombardo


> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> No...I think Steve actually did err...my statement  was that Lombardo was
>> just as "locked in" to his style in 1930 as he was at any other point in
>> his
>> career.  My second point was that,  regardless of the Lombardo 
>> conventions
>> which he employed for more than 50 years,  he was capable of playing some
>> pretty great music.
>> I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear in the earlier post.  If I'm
>> mistaken about Steve's statement,  let's hear from him about it.
>>
> Okeh...what I MEANT was this! Lombardo (and later Garber) did use the 
> style
> from c. 1927 onward...but at that time it was different from the usual
> dance-band
> format. It didn't become "boring and constant" until around the late
> thirties or
> early forties (around the same time that Garber relentlessly copied 
> it)...!
> I happen to like Lombardo (and can sing in Carmen's style as well!).
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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