It’s only fitting for this auction filled with television treasures that we turn to Late Night with David Letterman to explain why Ricky Ricardo loved his guitar. On May 23, 1983, Desi Arnaz joined Letterman to discuss the making and impact of I Love Lucy; he even performed Irving Berlin’s “I’ll See You in Cuba.” But before that, Letterman asked Arnaz – perhaps best known for playing the conga drums on I Love Lucy – which instrument he preferred. Arnaz was quick with his response: guitar. And why? “All Cubans play the guitar and sing,” Arnaz told the host. “You need that – you need it to romance when we serenade.” He then mimed strumming a guitar – this one, perhaps, the Gibson LG1 Sunburst that Comisar acquired from the man himself.
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