Why We Sing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's Eve

Why We Sing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's Eve

It's all Guy Lombardo's fault.

Guy's band played it in a New Year's Eve broadcast every year from 1929 to 1976.

When I was a tyke, I assumed that Guy Lombardo and Ben Grauer invented New Year's Eve.

Grauer, a network announcer, covered New Year's Eve every year that I can remember - from my very earliest memories until the time my own children were born. He and Lombardo teamed up on New Year's Eve across a quarter of a century. Their last assignment together was to greet 1977, but that turned out not to be a happy new year for them at all. They both died.