Around we go...! Lawrence Welk and his champagne music

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Around we go...!

Lawrence Welk and his champagne music

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DL 8323
LONG PLAY 33 1/3 RPM

AROUND
WE GO

LAWRENCE WELK
and his
CHAMPAGNE MUSIC

"To some 20,000,000-twenty million-viewers, Lawrence Welk is the finest thing that has happened to popular music in two decades." This is said on the authority of TV Guide which recently devoted a feature article to Welk and his music under the title "A Good Time for Mother," to which was added this subtitle: "That's the Philosophy behind Lawrence Welk's Tremendous Success."

Practically everybody-or at least everybody who looks at television-knows that every Saturday night Welk's orchestra is seen and heard from coast to coast. They also know that his music is popular with listeners of every age-teenages, middle-agers, and oldsters.

By this time almost everybody also knows the Lawrence Welk story. They know that, in 1878, the Welk family came from Alscace-Lorraine, on the border between France and Germany, and settled in a North Dakota town which bore the Alsatian name of Strasburg. When he was sill a child Lawrence picked out tunes by ear on the family parlor organ-probably this childhood association made him use the modern electric organ which he now features so prominently in the orchestra. Young Welk also learned to perform on an old push-button accordion; in fact he learned it so thoroughly that, while he was still in his teens, he earned money playing for local parties and dances. Since that time the accordion has become his chosen instrument-in fact, one might say it is a Lawrence Welk trade mark.

Today' Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music is probably the hottest dance band property in the record business. His records sell to the point that, with each new release, the number of advance pressings must be stepped up to meet the ever increasing demand. Here's a band leader who knows what the people want. What's more, he knows hot to give it to them.



SELECTIONS INCLUDE:


Side One

1. BUBBLES IN THE WINE
Instrumental Fox Trot
(Lawrence Welk's Theme Song)
Frank Loesser-Bob Calame-Lawrence Welk

2. JOSEPHINE
Wayne King-Burke Bivens-Gus Kahn
Instrumental Fox Trot

3. KENTUCKY WALTZ
Bill Monroe
Waltz
Vocal Chorus by Bobby Beers and Joan Mowery

4. CANADIAN CAPERS
Instrumental Fox Trot
Gus Chandler-Bert White-Harry Cohen

5. GUITAR POLKA
Al Dexter-James B. Paris
Vocal Chorus by Bob "Tex" Cromer

6. MY PRETTY GIRL
Ray Johnson-Del Porter
Fox Trot-Vocal by Bobby Beers


Side Two

1. SOUTH
B. Moten-T. Hayes
Fox Trot-Instrumental

2. LADY PLAY YOUR MANDOLIN
Fox Trot-Vocal Chorus by Bill Kaylor
Oscar Levant-Irving Caesar

3. NOBODY KNOWS
Lawrence Welk-Samuel Aron
Foxt Trot-Vocal Chorus by Bob "Tex" Cromer

4. BYE BYE BLUES
Fred F. Hamm-Dave Bennett-Bert Lown-Chauncey Gray
Instrumental Fox Trot
Whistling by Roy Woldum

5. DOIN' YOU GOOD
Boyd Senter
Vocal by Bobby Beers

6. YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
Fox Trot
Vocal Choruses by Jayne Walton, Parnell Gaiva and Shirlie Grundy
Jimmie Davis-Charles Mitchell

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