WELKTIME - Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music

DL8324
LONG PLAY 33 1/3 RPM

WELKTIME

Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music

SELECTIONS INCLUDE :

Side One

1 MELODY TIME Bennie Benjamin - George Weiss
Fox Trot
Vocal Chorus by Bobby Beers

2 WHIFFENPOOF SONG
Waltz
VOcal by Bobby Beers and Joan Mowery
George S. Pomeroy - Tody B. Galloway - Mead Minnigerode

3 CHANSONETTE J. Devaux
Schottische

4 DAWN Jorge Del Moral - Gil Roberts
Waltz
Vocal Chorus by Jayne Walton

5 BACK HOME IN ILLINOIS
Fox Trot - Instrumental
Coleman Goetz - Sammy Stept

6 ELMER'S TUNE
Fox Trot - Vocal Chorus
Dick Jurgens - Elmer Albrecht - Sammy Gallop


Side Two

1 WEDDING OF THE WINDS John T. Hall
Instrumental - Waltz

2 CHI-BABA, CHI-BABA
(My Bambino Go To Sleep)
Fox Trot
Vocal by Joan Mowery and Bobby Beers
Mack David - Al Hoffman - David Livingston

3 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL
Vocal by Bobby Beers
Walter Schuman - James E. Sayers

4 THE SHRINE OF SAINT CECILIA
Fox Trot Jokern - Carroll Loveday
Vocal Chorus by Jayne Walton

5 AMOR Gabriel Ruiz - Sunny Skylar
Beguine
Vocal Chorus by Jayne Walton

6 FLORES NEGRAS Sergin De Karlo - Ray Charles
(You're The Moment Of A Lifetime)
Rumba Fox Trot
Vocal Chorus by Jayne Walton



"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 efature 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 ispopular with listeners of every age - teenagers, 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 Alsace-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 still a child Lawrence picked otu 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 int he record business. His records sell to the point that, wich 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 how to give it to them.


If you've enjoyed this recording ... you're sure to like another Long Play recording by LAWRENCE WELK :

LAWRENCE WELK'S POLKA PARTY - Beer Barrel Polka - Sleepy Bugler Polka - Pennyslvania Polka, and others DL 8213

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DECCA Records

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