Talk:Guy Lombardo

Liota's

Guy Lombrdo owned a home on a canal in Freeport, Long Island in the 40s. His boat, Tempo IV, was parked in the canal next to the house, and it could be seen as we passed by on the road. We usually were driving to the end of the road, to a place where we could buy steamed clams. It was called "Liota's East Point House." At some point Guy Lombardo bought the place as an investment and changed the name to "Guy Lombardo's East Point House," but eveyone still called it Liota's.

Free plug deleted

Just removed a gratuitous plug for Nike. Nice try, junior marketers - your boss won't see this one. Johnno2 15:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Two things. One, the plug was for Nikon, and two, the sponsorship was added nearly a year before you removed it, by a local Freeport booster, not a corporate marketer. Check the edit history. Chubbles 02:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Museum

The paragraph about the Museum is dripping with innuendo. Reading between the lines, I assume there is a dispute between the City and the former curator. Would someone please put in some solid information with a reference? Surely there must have been something in the local newspaper. Rees11 (talk) 00:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, I did it myself. Rees11 (talk) 00:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Tributes

I'd like to remove the entire "Tributes" section. It seems trivial and not notable. Rees11 (talk) 00:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Easy listening

According to the Easy listening article, this style didn't develop until the middle of the century, and Lombardo is not listed as one of its players. I seem to remember Guy saying they started out playing dance/pop (1920s), and stuck with it when other bands moved on to swing and later styles. He also said, "Tin Pan Alley gave us the music that was our trademark." So I'm taking out the part about easy listening. Rees11 (talk) 15:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Addition to Tributes

Anal Cunt did a song called Guy Lombardo. Should this be added to the tributes section? 134.129.215.169 (talk) 18:18, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Is the song actually about Guy Lombardo, or did they just use his name as a song title? If it's about him, I'd say definitely yes. If not, maybe, we do have a bridge and a street named after him. I'd never heard of this band but they seem to be notable. Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Canadian-American

Why was Canadian-American removed from the infobox and delinked from the lead? Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Discography

I'm surprised to find there's no discography. I will start one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.119.232.210 (talk) 12:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

This is good, but can you please cite your source? I can help format the citation if that would help. Kendall-K1 (talk) 17:11, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Cite my source? I have a grade 3 education. The albums come from eBay listings, and record label discographies at bsnpubs.com - the singles and chart positions come from various Joel Whitburn publications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.7.156.142 (talk) 17:16, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Have you got the actual url of the page at bsnpubs.com? And titles of the Joel Whitburn publications? The eBay listings are WP:OR but I don't think anyone will dispute them. We may want to note that it's a partial list. Kendall-K1 (talk) 22:23, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

The Decca 12" albums 1954-1960 come from bsnpubs.com , the direct link to this info is: http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/decca/decca8000.html The Decca 12" albums 1960-1972 come from bsnpubs.com , direct link: http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/decca/decca4000.html All of the info for the incomplete singles section comes from "Joel Whitburn's BillBoard Pop Hits Singles & Albums 1940-1954", copyright 2002, ISBN 0-89820-152-7, published by Record Research Inc, P.O. Box 200, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 53052-0200, USA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.7.156.131 (talk) 12:47, 19 July 2015 (UTC) The 2 Vocalion albums can be sourced at bsnpubs.com , the direct link to this is: http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/vocalion/vocalion.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.7.156.141 (talk) 15:45, 19 July 2015 (UTC) The Capitol label albums can be sourced at bsnpubs.com , in a PDF file the link is http://www.bsnpubs.com/capitol/previews/600-2999.pdf

I made section headings for the singles, and made it multicolumn. You can now see more information on one screen but is it too busy or harder to read? Should I revert this, or expand it to the albums? Opinions please. Also, what's the difference between the two Decca sections? Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:01, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

The difference between the 2 Decca sections in the singles discography is this: the singles 1927-1939 come from two websites that are cited #13 and #14. The singles 1940-1952 come from a book and is cited #15. So it's a matter of citations, in that #15 doesn't cover 1927-1939.

The column work looks fine to me. If you expand it to the albums it might make it easier to read.

Maybe the discography should be moved to it's own page entirely.

No Where Man

I have a vague memory that in Yellow Submarine someone says something about Guy Lombardo to the No Where Man. Gideonrv (talk) 20:20, 7 June 2017 (UTC)