Auld Lang Syne What would New Year's Eve be like without the fireworks, the Ball

Auld Lang Syne What would New Year's Eve be like without the fireworks, the Ball dropping in Times Square and singing Auld Lang Syne?   Another contemporary tradition, playing Auld Lang Syne (literally "old long since"), as the first song after the Ball falls, goes back to when it was first published in 1796, by Robert Burns, in Scotland, as a song of remembrance and reflection. It's the most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's Eve. Guy Lombardo, who popularized this piece with his band Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, first heard the song in his hometown of London, Ontario, sung by Scottish immigrants. From 1929-1959 his band played every New Year's at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, with the first radio broadcast in 1929. The first televised New Year's celebration with Lombardo's band was in 1954 and continued until 1976, when they were, then, playing at the Waldorf-Astoria. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve televised broadcast began on December 31, 1972 to bring in a "younger crowd", but, kept Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne to be the first song played in the new year. For many, not hearing it would make their New Year celebration seem "unofficial," somehow. (Lyrics below) Lyrics to Auld Lang Syne   Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne ? CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint-stoup ! And surely I'll be mine ! And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. CHORUS We twa hae run about the braes, and pou'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary fit, sin' auld lang syne. CHORUS We twa hae paidl'd in the burn, frae morning sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd sin' auld lang syne. CHORUS And there's a hand, my trusty fiere ! And gies a hand o' thine ! And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught, for auld lang syne. CHORUS Lyric source: Wikipedia - Auld Lang Syne   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS MySpace.com: www.myspace.com/carlraylouk http://www.myspace.com/carlraylouk Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : LouksHauntedGraveyardhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/LouksHauntedGraveyard/ Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk/