Carmen Lombardo
Carmen Lombardo (born July 16, 1903 in London (Ontario) , † April 17, 1971 in Miami ) was a Canadian songwriter, singer and saxophonist of light entertainment music. He was the younger brother of the band leader Guy Lombardo .
Lombardo had flute lessons and played the flute and saxophone in his brother's orchestra in Canada. With his brother he founded Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians in 1923 , where he was musical director and first saxophonist on the alto saxophone. He also appeared there as a singer, sometimes with a vibrato of such a sentimental effect that he was caricatured in the Warner Brothers cartoons as Cryman Lombardo and also in the 1960s by Tony Randall on the Tonight Show. He also composed for the Lombardo Orchestra. He wrote the band's hits like Sweethearts on Parade (1928, with Johnny Green , Gus Kahn ), which topped the US charts for three weeks in 1929, Ridin around in the Rain (with Gene Austin 1934), Coquette , Boo Hoo (You got me crying for you) (1937), Sailboat in the Moonlight (1937), Some Rainy Day , Get out those old records . Singers like Bing Crosby and Dean Martin recorded his songs, and Coquette was recorded by Louis Armstrong , Paul Whiteman , Jimmie Lunceford , Bob Crosby , Bud Freeman and The Ink Spots .
For the Royal Canadians, to which he belonged until 1970, he wrote the stage shows Arabian Nights , Paradise Island and Mardi Gras with John Jacob Loeb ! .
In 1937 and 1938 he won the Down Beat Poll as a saxophonist in the Sweet Music division (ironically called corn in jazz magazine at the time ).
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| SURNAME | Lombardy, Carmen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer and saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London (Ontario) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th April 1971 |
| Place of death | Miami |