Tom Hofer sings Auld Lang Syne

Tom Hofer celebrates New Year’s Eve singing “Auld Lang Syne”. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performed it on New Year's Eve for decades from 1929 until at least 1977. The intro to Lombardo's 1947 Decca Records version is played in Times Square every New Year's immediately following the dropping of the ball. The first recording of the song was made on wax cylinder in 1898 by the Englishmen Charles Samuel Myers and Alfred Cort Hadden. As a standard in music, "Auld Lang Syne" has since been recorded many times, in every conceivable style, by many artists, both well-known and obscure. The first commercial recording was probably that of Frank C Stanley, who recorded the song in 1910. www.tomhofermusic.com