[78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home

[Don Chichester]

Personal note:  Lebert and his family at one time lived on So. Ocean Avenue in Amityville NY.  They lived next door to my cousin and his family.  Doug used to play ping pong with Lebert.
BTW, their homes were a few doors south of the house portrayed in the "Amityville Horror" book and movie.  I was born a mile away, a few (!) years earlier.
 
Don
 

 

> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:46:05 -0500
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home
> 
> There is an article in USA Today with a link to another with more 
> pictures about the Guy Lombardo archive held by Lebert's family. They 
> are looking for a home for it. Here's the links and an excerpt
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1801403?preferredArticleViewMode=single
> 
> http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012312300042
> 
> The items displayed in their homes include photographs, record albums, 
> sheet music, awards, and even the band's framed first paycheck from 
> 1918, for $35.70.
> 
> Even more items have been sitting in storage for about 40 years, first 
> placed there by Lebert, Gina said. They include at least 100 manila 
> envelopes stuffed with original band orchestrations hand-written by 
> Carmen; at least 40 boxes of reels of 35-millimeter tapes, plus many 
> loose, large reels of 16mm tapes of the band's 1950s TV show.
> 
> The siblings offered it to the Berklee College of Music in Boston and 
> two other colleges, but was told there wasn't room, she said. So Gina, 
> her son, James, and Liz make a pilgrimage to the storage units on 
> Sundays, putting the deteriorating tapes, smelling of vinegar, in 
> archival envelopes and reboxing them. They don't know what to do with 
> the orchestrations, many of them yellowing.
> 
> 
> 
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