Guy Lombardo's Final New Year's Eve. Appearance - New Year's Eve. 1976-1977 

New Year’s Eve is not the same without Guy Lombardo… He was a musical genius…

I read somewhere that Guy Lombardo said "When I die, I'm taking New Year's Eve with me!" When I see stuff like this video, I tend to agree!

I remember this so very well. Guy Lombardo was a class act. Since the passing of both Guy Lombardo & Dick Clark, New Years hasn't been the same.

Guy and the Canadians were a class act not like the junk we have now!

THANK GOD THIS WAS PRESERVED!

I was not around in the time that Guy Lombardo had his fun. But man, I wished I was. I know I’m 23 years old, but honestly, this is REAL dancing music. This is what I was watching on New Year’s Eve. This is the kind of music that needs to make a comeback in society. Not these angry people screaming to an auto tuned beat. But real music, music that people make with real instruments they know how to play. Songs with safe lyrics without the profanity. Guy Lombardo and those similar to him played that type of music. Society would be a lot better off with Guy Lombardo’s music. I’m grateful for PBS for introducing Guy to me when I was an infant. And at the same time I’m furious that PBS won’t put his show back on TV!

Growing up I loved watching Guy Lombardo with my grandmother. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the New Year. Especially listening to talk about her youth.

Why can't we have this standard of music being played today? Their arrangements of a lot of songs sound better to me than the originals. I listen to them quite regularly, just love them. They did truly play the sweetest music this side of Heaven!

Since the passing of Guy Lombardo New Years Eve has never been the same!

This is when it was worthwhile staying up and ringing in The New Year. Sadly, just a lot of garbage on TV today -- just my opinion folks.

He was Mr. New Years Eve before Dick Clark. Music was basic but that but he kept a lot of musicians working for a real long time. RIP Guy and thanks for the memories! Remember watching with my grandparents and mom....dad was a musician and always working on New Years Eve.

I wish PBS or some channel would run these again...even a rerun from 1960 is better than that New Year's Eve crap that is on now.

I grew up in the 70's and looked foward to watching guy lombardo on new years eve with my parents and grand parents. New years eve was never the same after Guy Lombardo's death. Enrico Rubio

Wonderful show, wonderful memories. Had tickets to see Guy in 1977 in Little Rock, Arkansas, but he died before the show. Show still went on, had a chance to talk to Guy's brother on the trumpet and Kenny Gardner. Greatest band of them all.

At midnight on New Years eve I still play Guy Lombardo. I have the original 78s and yes LPs too. Mom bought me a Lombardo album for Christmas of 1980 when I thought his music was modern. ha ha I cherish that LP but since have found many of his 1930s Columbia Vivatonal records and yep the sweetest music this side of Heaven. Just the best!

This was THE ....New Eve Show when I was a little kid, I thought it was the only one..............

Always loved Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve show. . . Still miss it!

Back when New Year's Eve was celebrated with class, elegance and decorum. What a contrast to the substitute unwatchable rubbish we have now.

What a Blessing to so many through the years . My Mom & Dad never missed his show every year .Wish they had someone to carry it on. So Wholesome family show with decent music & songs . Thank you

My parents loved him. I thought it was corny & hokey but now I miss him and them...

I was too young, at 6 yrs old to remember; but I can only imagine Guy Lombardo on one show, and Dick Clark on the other. One show for the older folks; and another for the younger. I miss the older generation. They were special.

I watched this growing up and loved it. I haven’t bothered to watch New Years Eve since. I miss the good old days

Heavens how I miss this on New Yea's Eve!

The good old days. Even back then we thought the people dressed up dancing and waiving was FUN to watch.

Thanks for the video. I remember guy Lombardo as a kid. Too bad nobody airs this anymore. 😥

Growing up, my mom & dad always had a new years party. Guy Lombardo was the center piece of the night. They would have their friends over and the other kids and myself would sneak down the stairs to watch. Many happy memories. Guy Lombardo will always be new years eve for me.

Amen..there will never be another like him, whose name was synonymous with a wholesome, fun way to celebrate New Year's Eve! God Bless you, Guy..we miss you.

We always listened to Guy Lombardo if we were home.

What happy memories this video brings back. And what a schlockfest New Year's eve has become since Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians have left the stage. As a fellow Long Islander I remember Guy piloting his beautiful mahogany speedboat through the moat at the Jones Beach Theater each night before the summer stage shows proudly flying the American flag during the National Anthem. He and his wonderful band are very much missed even after all these years. No doubt "The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven" is now "The Sweetest Music In Heaven."

Guy Lombardo was born on June 17th, 1902 in the south end of London, Ontario, Canada. His boyhood home has been designated a historical landmark there!

Bittersweet memories, I grew up with the sounds of Big Band music because of my Mom's love of it. This was the last time we were able to enjoy Guy Lombardo together as she died Jan. 9th , 1977

My family had this show on every year.

Yes The Elegent Family Time waiting with The Family for that WONDERFULL BALL DROPPING , WHEN WE CELEBRATED WITH FAMILY AN LOVE

For those that want to experience this entire show including commercials, the Museum of Television Broadcasting on 52nd in NYC has the master copy of this , They probably got it from CBS since it was historic in that it was the last New Years Eve with Guy Lombardo. I am 55 and I can remember watching this every year from about 1969 and I though this was was one his best shows of that era. The band was tight and I liked how they took current hits and played it in their style. I thought one of the great traditions of this show was the salute to Broadway medley before they went live to the ball drop. It really built up the anticipation of the coming new year and if you see the actual ball drop of that year, they had it timed perfectly, starting from the tympani roll to the countdown. Sadly this was also Ben Grauer's final NYE .

Forever Mr. New Year's Eve...both Guy and Dick Clark.

Also his Royal Canadians were excellent musical genius also...

Used to watch Guy Lombardo with the grandparents. It was a New Year's Eve tradition. Mr. Lombardo died when I was 11. I still remember thinking New Year's Eve will never be the same, and I was right. Great video. Thanks for posting.

Yes, kids, that was the quality of video on TVs back then. I miss these shows. Watched them so many years.

Priceless...thank you for posting this !!! A teal treat !!

This was a true American tradition. Something we'll never see again.

It was and shall always be! The very best of USA 🇺🇸 and around the world. Lucky enough to have lived the moment in time and history. Happy New Year's 2018. 🎉🎇

i still have his record. but no record player. now i have downloaded the Auld Lang Syne with Bell chimes on iTunes and i love it. i will always forever play it every year very loud at 12 over and over.

Guy Lombardo was one of the best of the era I grew up in, How unfortunate to go from that GREAT era to the rock and roll rap crap that came and destroyed real music forever. Fortunately with the preservation of recordings and You Tube, I can still enjoy the era of the greatest music of that time.

Less than a year after this aired, the great Guy Lombardo would be dead. He is still missed by many and New Year's Eve has never been as festive without him.

2020 I’m here for this.

It was a sad day when we lost him. London Ontario and Port Stanley were never the same Guy never forgot Port Stanley and dancing in an August night was special. we miss him as Guy Lombardo never forgot his home town! yes New Years without him and the Royal Canadians is not the same

Most of these songs aren't really my style but this is leagues better than what get played on New Years shows lately. In fact I'll most likely rewatch this later today instead of the usual dreck.

Watching 2022/2023. I watched Guy growing up.

I grew up on long island and my cousins lived in plandome and Kenny gardner was a good friend of my uncle. Kenny would always come over and was such a nice person. A few times i was invited to go to Guy Lombardos house in Freeport. Always had a wonderful time there

This makes me want to have another glass of Cold Duck!

40 years later, Happy New Year!!

I was born in 1954, growing up on President Street in Freeport. Used togo fishing at his restaurant. My mom & dad would let me,my sister and brother watch him ring in New Year Eve when we got a little older.

This is perfection in big band music.

New Year's Eve without Guy Lombardo is like having Laurel without Hardy!

My Biggest Gift My Daughter was born New Years 12:00am Happy birthday to my Lovely Daughter Tamara Nicole Irvin 1979 you are the biggest gift from god love mommy and daddy i love you little Girl.

This was my kind of New Years Eve music. Sorry gone now. I do not on put New Years eve shows on tv any more. Friends and I have a few drinks and watch old movies.

Rest in Peace Guy!

ENJOYED VERY VERY MUCH

I’m watching this for the 2020/2021 New Year’s celebration to avoid the sleaziness of everything I see on the major networks!

Great tuba playing!!!

When I was a kid I thought this show was really square. My opinion hasn't changed, but I can appreciate now that they were a good band.

Holy smokes, this takes me back ... Guy Lombardo new years eve ... good days.

I don't know a show like this would air on network television but sometimes what's old is New again to some folks

dang, as a kid born in 2007, they are pretty good. Usually the only part I look at on new years eve is, of course, the ball drop the first ball drop I ever remember was 2018-2019

MY Father and Mother Enjoying watching Guy Lombardo during the New Year Eve Celebration 🥳🎉. RIP Mr Calvin Bealer Sr. and Mrs Martha Jane Bealer. Love Y'all Miss Dearly beloved 😍❤️

I remember having to watch these as a kid and being bored out of my skull.

brings back loving memories

This reminds me of being a little kid on NYE. All my family around the TV, eating Lipton® Soup Onion Dip and drinking soda AT NIGHT. For anyone that thinks Lombardo's music is square, none other than Louis Armstrong loved his band!

Love this! Happy New Decade 🎉 2020!

Great memories from my childhood

i like how "i write the songs" and "feelings" were arranged and performed as slow two-steps.

What a great time! I moved from NYC to Hawaii and never looked back!

I purchased the CD Enjoy Yourself for the cover song but I found so many delightful songs as well. As much as I love hearing the music performed by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians this mini-concert allows me to see them as well.

I remember as kids we use to stay up and watch this. Most of the time we did not make it to midnight.

I grew up with this yearly show. It’s all we had and “We Liked It”!

Would love to purchase a DVD collection of these old Guy Lombardo New Year's broadcasts if only they'd make one available.....

I remember watching him in the 1970's with my Grandparents.

Miss these days, no disrespect to the late Dick Clark, but I grew up on the New Year's Eve by Guy Lombardo...as a young teen, he was the Ace of The New York, Times Square New Year's Eve Celebration ! Brings back fond memories of auld lang syne...

Ty Lemley's banjo playing on Charley My Boy is terrific!

I am so Happy you are going to post the rest of the Guy Lombardo New Years Special, New Years Eve is not the Same without Guy, Again thank you for posting this video

"New York's Glamorous High Society"!!! What fun.

I miss those days.

I remember this well. We were all watching in my mom's family home in Long island. Ironic this was the last new years eve we spent out there due to the fact my sister met her future husband the following year. Not only this was Guy Lombardo last year it was Ben Grauer last year too as we lost them both in 1977. New years eve is not the same as l also lost many relatives along the way including my dad.

When the Flagship Holiday had class.

Remember seeing this on TV as a youngster.

Happy New years Royal Canadians Happy New to one and all 2015.

This is super fine !

Guy is the second cousin to my grandmother, Helen. She told me stories about when she was barley a teen singing on the radio with guy and he offered her to tour with her but her parents said no, you are too young. Lol she would of been famous for her singing and dancing but she might of never had 7 kids and lots and lots of grand, great grand and great great grand children. Guy was an amazing man and so talented! We still enjoy him until this day.

May God bless guy Lombardo soul rest in peace 🙏 my friend

First time I stayed up to watch the ball drop.

Well done JE,this is BIG in Lombardo Loversland all over the world,wish the Lombardo Family would get active in RU-vid,and post some of their priceless treasures to music maybe.... I d-r-e-a-m.... Cheers to ALL for 2013 :-) Warm Regards Noel from Aus

With all the garbage in the world today I had to find some Guy Lombardo vids. Happy New Year.

Use to watch Guy Lombardo from my folks home in Los Angeles every New Years eve while my folks were out partying with their friends 'was kinda fun'....

I was 13 years old then Dec 31st, 1976 and I probably watched this with my mom and dad then!! I kind of remember this!! I turned 14 years old on May 21, 1977. The next year Guy Lombardo's brother took over!

He almost made it to the next new year's celebrations(died 11/5/1977) Guy still looks good for being 74 (never saw this or any of his late in life performances before) The band is playing just great !! I'm a 78 record collector and am quite familiar with his music. Quite a few younger people on the dance floor. Wish I were there at the time. They also did great on "I Write the Songs" and "Feelings". Thanks for posting this gem !

If you look at the crowd for this show, the amazing thing is how relatively young this crowd was for a show that was clearly NOT Rock 'n Roll or Disco (which by then was reaching its peak as would be seen not too long after with the opening of Studio 54). There definitely were older people there as well, but not nearly as many as you would have expected for this type of a show. Also, while Times Square itself was crowded, the crowds DID NOT go nearly as far back as they do now. Part of that was crime in New York was rampant during the second half of the '60s through the early '90s, but a lot of it was you didn't have people having the NEED to be in Times Square you seem to have now. Even the one time I went to Times Square for the ball drop in 1984-'85, I actually went up north to 50th and Broadway and had a clear shot of the ball dropping up on a hill and hardly anyone else was there! Now that area is crowded by 5:00 PM or so.

I dont believe i've taken interest nor seen a New Years eve special since.

I was moving from Houston to Virginia before Christmas, 1976. I owned an antique parlor organ which meant the world to me. As the movers were packing and loading my belongings into their big truck, I must have told them too many times to be careful with my parlor organ. Finally the transport driver asked me to come into the back of the truck. He peeled back a corner of the padding, so I could see my parlor organ. Then he told me he wanted me to see the priceless item which my instrument would be riding on during the trip. He moved a bit of padding for me to see a beautiful lacquered finish. He recovered the item and told me it was Guy Lombardo's grand piano, which was being delivered to New York after my belongings were unloaded in Virginia. I no longer worried about my cheap little instrument, and it happened that Guy's last performance for New Years was the week after my things rode on top of his piano. It's a special memory as I never missed any of his New Years performances. I am so happy you have this performance preserved!

45 years ago. RIP Guy Lombardo

This is really great. There is a great pan showing my father in-law, trombonist, Donald "Coop" Cooper. Are there any more videos of from this era, showing Don?. Don played with the Royal Canadians from 1966 until Guy Lombardo's death.