[78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home

[David Lennick]

London Ontario is still interested, but apparently there's a decade or more of 
non-cooperation between the city fathers and various duelling Lombardi.

dl

On 1/1/2013 7:59 AM, Rjholtin wrote:
> The original brothers apparently were not supporters nor alumni of any university that might take it, a la Crosby at Gonzaga or Hoagy at Indiana.  That is one problem.
>
> The other is cultural.  There is no support of the grassroots like Elvis and the city of Memphis.  Lombardo was not rocknroll so none of the rocknroll enclaves are interested.
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> Hey, even we know the records are largely worthless, so what's the surprise that nobody else wants the rest of it?
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> At some point, maybe past my lifetime, maybe not, I would expect even those archives that do hold stuff from former pop icons will be shedding that junk as well.  If they can't make money with it, out it goes.  Ever seen that before?
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> It's not our fathers America and it's not their uncle Guy's Canada anymore, either.
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> Sent from my iPod
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> On Jan 1, 2013, at 12:07 AM, "Ron L'Herault"<lherault at bu.edu>  wrote:
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> How about approaching Boston University.
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> Ron L
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 6:46 PM
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> 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
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> http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1801403?preferredArticleViewMode=single
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>    http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012312300042
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> 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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