When you go back to the office after New Year's, you can wow your sales associates with the history behind the song you always here on New Year's Eve.
Scottish poet Robert Burns published the New Year's Eve favorite "Auld Lang Syne" in 1796. But it wasn't until hundreds of years later that it became linked with the holiday.
Guy Lombardo reportedly added the song to his band's repertoire after hearing Scottish immigrants sing it in his hometown of London, Ontario. In 1929, Lombardo played it at midnight during a New Year's Eve party at New York's Roosevelt Hotel - and a tradition was born. Since then, Lombardo's version of the song has been standard at parties everywhere in the English-speaking world.
For me personally, I'll always associate it with the end of "It's a Wonderful Life". How can anyone not shed a tear with that song being sung by the townfolk in Bedford Falls?
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