TV FAVORITES - Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music

T.V. FAVORITES

LAWRENCE WELK
And his
CHAMPAGNE MUSIC


Selections Include :


Side One

1 BLUE (And Broken Hearted) - Fox Trot
Featuring Vocal by Jack Martin
Lou Handman-Grant Clarke-Edgar Leslie

2 LOLO O'BRIEN THE IRISH HAWAIIAN - Fox Trot
Featuring Vocal by Larry Hooper
and The Sparklers
J. Cavanaugh-F.Weldon-G.Whiting

3 LUXEMBOURG POLKA - Instrumental Polka
Emile Reisdorff

4 SAM, THE OLD ACCORDION MAN - Fox Trot
Featuring Vocal by Alice Lon - Walter Donaldson

5 MY SONG
Featuring Vocal by Jim Roberts
Lew Brown-R. Henderson

6 DILL PICKLES - Fox Trot Charles L. Johnson


Side Two

1 WHAT'S A WRONG
Featuring Vocal by Alladin
Mort Greene-Dan Melnick-Richard Barr

2 THE HEART YOU BREAK (May Be Your Own)
Featuring Vocal by Bob Lido
Bob Hilliard-David Mann

3 LOOK BACK AND LAUGH
Featuring Vocal by Jack Martin
Don Reid-Arthur Altman

4 I WISH WE WERE SWEETHEARTS AGAIN
Featuring Vocal by Alice Lon
Al Hoffman-Freddy Grant

5 THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE
Featuring Vocal by Jim Roberts
Isham Jones-Marty Symes

6 BEGORRAH! - Ray Martin

LAWRENCE WELK is a band-leader who is not only a skillful craftsman but an unusually cooperative colleague. He has always been quick to share credit with his co-workers and win from them the greatest possible response. In these recordings Welk is happy to feature Alladin, Jim Roberts, Alice Lon, Jack Martin, Larry Hooper, and Bob Lido, all of whom give distinction to this collection of TV favorites. They help make the Welk Champagne Music more sparkling than ever.

The Welk sparkle has grown with his popularity. Today some 90 million listeners hear him and thrill to his music. Music was always a part of the Welk family. His father, Ludwig Welk, brought the love of music with him when he escaped with other Alsatians from the invading Prussians in 1878, and came to America. The Welks settled on a small North Dakota farm. There were eight children; Lawrence was next tot he youngest. As a child he listened to the tunes his father loved and, before he was in his teens, he was a competent accordion player.

He was only thirteen when he bagan playing for community dances ; he was not much older when he was heard over the inaugural broadcast of radio station WNAX at Yankton, South Dakota with his orchestra - and "orchestra" which consisted of one drummer and one accordion player. Soon Larry added a saxophone and a piano and gave his group such fancy names as "The Hotsy Totsy Boys," "Lawrence Welk and His Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra," and "The Biggest Little Band in America" - this last because its five members performed on thirty instruments.

Lawrence Welk's organization survived all these titles. Gradually the orchestra was enlarged - it changed its character - the instruments were regrouped - new rhythms and new arrangements were introduced. Finally it achieved that characteristic lightness and bouncing effervescence which earned it the appropriately bubbling name of "Champagne Music."