Guy Lombardo's traditional New Year's Eve show on CBS television.
He hand his Royal Canadian orchestra have stayed popular fo nearly 50 years, playing, he once said, "for people in love, not acrobats."
This year, Aretha Franklin joins Lombardo and his Royal Canadians at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. As Midnight drawn near, cameras switch to Times Square, where thousand cheer the countdown to 1976.
Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader. For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia for the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented. Ben Grauer brings in the New Year from Times Square.