Which New Year's Eve song did Guy Lombardo make famous in North American broadcasts?

Guy Lombardo made “Auld Lang Syne” famous in North American New Year's Eve broadcasts.

Lombardo and his Royal Canadians performed the song during their long-running New Year's Eve radio broadcasts, helping establish it as a standard midnight number for audiences in the United States and Canada. Their broadcasts were associated with the transition from one year to the next for decades.

The band's performances began on radio in the 1920s and later reached television audiences. Lombardo's dance-band arrangement gave the song a polished, ceremonial sound that many listeners came to expect at midnight, even though the words and melody originated in Scottish tradition.

Lombardo did not write the song. Robert Burns is credited with shaping the familiar lyrics, and the melody predates the broadcasts. The Royal Canadians' importance was popularizing a particular performance tradition in mass media, not creating the underlying Scottish song.