LAWRENCE WELK AND HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC - PLAY SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS

LAWRENCE WELK AND HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC
PLAY SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS

Side One

1 ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH - Alice Wrubel - Ray Gilbert
2 YOUNG AT HEART - Johnny Richards - Carolyn Leigh
3 WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR - Leigh Harline - Ned Washington
4 GETTING TO KNOW YOU - R. Rodgers - O. Hammerstein 2nd
5 MOONLIGHT AND ROSES (Bring Mem'ries Of You) Ben Black - Neil Moret - Edwin Lemare
6 MALAGUENA - Ernesto Lecuona

Side Two

1 STANDING ON THE CORNER - Frank Loesser
2 TILL THE END OF TIME - Ted Mossman - Buddy Kaye
3 MACK THE KNIFE (MORITAT) - Kurt Weill - Bert Brecht
4 MY FOOLISH HEART - Victor Young - Ned Washington
5 MOONLIGHT BAY - Edward Madden - Percy Wenrich
6 NOLA - Felix Arndt


Match the musical sound everybody knows with Songs Everybody Knows- and you have a sure-fire formula for listening pleasure.

The musical sound, of course, is the sparkling outpourings of Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music Makers - the effervescent style that maestro Welk has shown to be so wonderfully adaptable to every type of music.

And it proves that again in this latest Welk album. For any collection of Songs Everybody Knows must obviously run the full range of popular taste - gay songs, sad songs, songs of nostalgia and romance...songs that have claimed a permanent place in the public affection.

Nothing is less predictable than the success of failure of a new song; no one ever knows whether it will have its brief hour and fade from memory - or become an enduring standard. Each of the numbers in this melodic assortment has stood the test of time.

NOLA is still as charming as when Vincent Lopez first introduced her almost four dacades ago...TILL THE END OF TIME remains a classic popularization of a classic - Chopin's Polonaise...Standing On The Corner and Getting To Know You were Broadway show stoppers that people never stopped humming...and, even before the fabulous Mack The Knife lyrics bowled us over, its haunting music made "The Three Penny Opera" memorable.

SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS may be as nostalgic as Moonlight Bay ora s sprightly as the Disney inspired Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. What all the golden dozen share in common is the proud eminence of sustained popularity that, if anything, grows year after year.

And in this album, of course, they happily share one other real "plus"; all of them-every beloved standard-take on a new ustre and sound better than ever thanks to the magic of Lawrence Welk and his orchestra.