My Darling Friends and Visitors, I present for your viewing and listening pleasure, Russ Columbo singing "The Lady I Love" for his LOVE, Carole Lombard. 1932 Russ Columbo, a popular radio and nightclub singer of the 20's and 30's, was said by Lombard to have been the "love of her life." He died tragically by accident in a friend's home in 1934.