[78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home

[David Lennick]

I know one of the guys who was a part of either that or the other (there were 
two Lombardo shrines back in the early 90s, if I'm not mistaken). I've 
forwarded the message to him.

Happy 2013 everybody!

dl

On 12/31/2012 10:10 PM, Rjholtin wrote:
> I did a Carmen Lombardo tribute on my show this date last year.  I looked up the museum in London as suggested by a friend who had driven by it a few years before only to learn the city had closed it in 2009.  No idea where that stuff went, either.
>
> Truly, Guy died and took New Years Eve with him - I have not stayed up to ring it in since.  Having a houseful of babies by then probably didn't help, but after they grew up there's been no point in it since then anyway.
>
> Sent from my iPod - hence the typoing err 0rs
>
> On Dec 31, 2012, at 6:07 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
> Let's see if the Lombardo fans in London, Ontario want to do anything with it.
> They had a museum years ago that was just a small storefront adjacent to the
> AFM local, a cut-out of Lombardo and a few cassettes, I kid you not. (And they
> loaned me the cassettes!)
>
> dl
>
> On 12/31/2012 6:46 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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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