GUY LOMBARDO-1930 Princeton Triangle Club show 78 RPM

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44

Columbia Personal Record  140-P

ARTIST: Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

SONGS: Living On Love/She’ll Come Around, both from the Princeton Triangle Club’s comic operetta “The Golden Dog” (recorded January 1930)

CONDITION: V++/E-, light scuffs, a few light scratches, very little wear

Whether you collect Princeton Triangle Club ephemera or Columbia Personal Recordings – or even rare Guy Lombardo records! – this is an interesting and seldom-seen item. Columbia Personal Records are hard to find in any condition and this one is pretty clean. “She’ll Come Along” is a bright little tune; both songs are from the 1930 Princeton Triangle Club comic opera “The Golden Dog” (this is likely a pun on the title of the operetta “Golden Dawn” which ran on Broadway in 1928 and was filmed in 1930 by Warner Brothers).

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