The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 162

APRII 4, 1976 THE INPIANAPOLIS STAR- SEC. 8 PAGE I 'Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven' Still Perennial Favorite I (Guy Lombardo and his Royal Ca- nadians will appear in concert at 8 Saturday in the Murat Theater.) NICHOLAS CHRISS -i (e) LOi AMGEI.ES TIMES Fort Lauderdale, Fla. I FOR A COUPLE OF hours now, is served when Lombardo conducts. And that club waiters provide juniper cables for fans' pacemakers. Lombardo, who earns about $25,000 a week, tours the United States and Canada 10 months of the year.

"When we go to an engagement we have a very professional group of people playing" Guy Lombardo said. "A lot of bands have ruined themselves by picking up a lot of long-haired jerks and going to beautiful country clubs. They never get invited back. "The first rule in my band is neatness. We never stand for a beard or a long haired guy.

We get nicely dressed musicians, not dirty 1 kids with blue jeans and no shoes and long hair. "They don't know about us, and we don't want to know about them." cacophony, Lombardo's success may be one of, the best kept Secrets in the country. He is packing audiences into ballrooms, auditoriums, ball parks, Masonic temples, yacht clubs, country clubs, Elks clubs and civic centers around the country. What is the reason for such popularity? "OUR MUSIC IS the popular music as it's written popular music as the composer wanted it played," Lombardo says, "so you'll know what we're playing without all the embellishments that take away from the beauty. I Harry and Ruth Pritchard, from Buck- gingham, have been impatiently waiting.

Finally, a few seconds after 9 p.m. the ballroom' of Gait's Ocean Nil- Hotel, overlooking' the Atlantic the moment arrives. A IWi their band in 1921, when they were in I their late teens in their hometown, London, Ontario. One of their first breaks came a few years later in Cleveland, when they got the attention of a club owner who thought they had come from London, England, instead of just across Lake Erie. Unlike some of his contemporaries of the dance band era such as Benny Goodman or Tommy Dorsey, Lombardo never has played an Instrument in front of his band.

He simply has capitalized on his Old World charm. "I held a violin for about 10 years but never played it," he said. LombardO has been around so long now, and so have his fans, that some of his detractors ridicule his concerts as geriatric love-ins. The jokes, which he takes in good humor, are legion: THAT HIS FANS are coronary-prone, and arrive at his concerts in ambulances. That they bring oxygen tanks with them.

That Geritol on draft mean that every song that is a song is a beautiful thing, in my opinion, and I don't believe in. people butchering it up." As for hard rock, Lombardo says, "Pull out the plug end you have The people dancing to Lombardo's music say, "It's healthy music It's beautiful music It's nostalgic music It reminds us of when we dated It's music you can dance to It's music you can sing." Harry and Ruth Pritchard danced to some of the same songs, played the same way, 20 years ago at the Koos-evelt Grill in New York City when Lombardo performed there. Pat and Vinney Tavis, also on the ballroom dance floor, are celebrating their 29th anniversary while Lombardo's band plays "Anniversary Waltz" just as. it did on the Davis' wedding night. GAETARIO (GUY) Lombardo and his brothers, Carmen and Lebert, sons of an immigrant Italian tailor, started i-iouty Places 1115 mius uuiiu nuiii.

ST TUiSDAY onto the floor for some hp-tn-eheek dancine. So do dozens FREE! LADIES DAY MOVIE Tuesday. April 6, 10:30 a.m. "LOVE STORY" Starring Ryan O'Neal Ali McGraw (Castleton Square Cinema) PLUS a a dozens of door prizes and a Bargain Bulletin of one-day-only specials from the merchants throughout the of other couples. About 700 couples have paid $30 each for dinner and dancing this night, most of them middle-aged or older, the women in colorful gowns, the men in crisp resort sports jacket.

The band is playing "Red Roses for 1 a Blue Lady," and to the dancers, the music is the sweetest this side of heaven! The maestro, swaying and smiling1 on the bandstand, baton in hand, is Guy Lombardo. LOMBARDO IS 73 but looks more like 43. He has been providing the same danceable, soft music for half a century now, and although some peo- pie may think cheek to-cheek dancing Hiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiu: They set out to try everything in the 1 what happens next you won't find in any Pm Off-Stra-t PajrHiaj AcVn. Adu4H M.OO. Chlldraai TSt OMN 11,30 STARTS ItOO 5 NOW TMHU THUMSOAYI ADULTS SI.

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