Long before Guy Lombardo with his Royal Canadians became famous for playing "Auld Lang Syne" at New York's Waldorf Astoria on New Year's Eve they were a hot dance band. Their first recordings for Gennett captured the band playing in a jazz style that they would soon abandon for their famous sweet sound. Guy Lombardo with his Royal Canadians would continue to record for another fifty years but little of their music after this 1924 recording session can be considered jazz.