Canada On My Mind: A Tribute to Guy Lombardo

The big band sounds take me back on a sentimental journey
into the past; they bring back memories that were made to last.
When I was a child, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
were an institution; a symbol of Canada and the Second World War;
when a tyrant found his demise, along with the Final Solution.
Lombardo and his music belonged to my parent’s generation,
but being an old soul, I fell under the spell of big band music
and the era it evoked. It made me long for that place and time,
as I listened to the big band’s beat, tempo, and pace.
The strands of music rising and falling, all that jazz too,
complex harmonies and syncopated rhythms: yesterday, calling!
Even now as an adult, Red Sails In The Sunset by Lombardo
and his band, conjures up images and sound I cannot forget.
This is a tribute to a man and his band, to another time:
Moreover, to this land, the great country we call home.
 

Red Sails In The Sunset

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