[78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home

[Ron L'Herault]

How about approaching Boston University. 

Ron L

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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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