It's Alice
ALICE LON
Orchestra Directed by GEORGE CATES
CORAL
CRL 757202
TRUE FIDELITY
STEREO
THE SOUND OF
CORAL
RECORDS
HIGH FIDELITY
SELECTIONS INCLUDE :
Side One
1 LOVE IS HERE TO STAY Georrge Gershwin - Ira Gershwin
2 WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE Cole Porter
3 WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE E. A. Swan
4 THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL Irving Berlin
5 YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU (I Didn't Want To Do It) J.V. Monaco - J. McCarthy
6 YOU'LL NEVER KNOW Harry Warren - M. Gordon
Side Two
1 THAT OLD FEELING L. Brown - S. Fain
2 I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Harry Warren - Al Dubin
3 I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING Ted Koehler - Harold Arlen
4 I HADN'T ANYONE TILL YOU Ray Noble
5 AS TIME GOES BY H. Hupfeld
6 IF I HAD YOU T. Shapiro - J. Campbell - R. Connelly
In this sparkling new album, Alice Lon - popular "Champagne Lady" of Lawrence Welk's weekly television programs - sings a collection of TV favorites.
Miss Lon, first introduced by Welk as "Alice from Dallas," began singing, dancing and playing the piano at six. By the time she was ten, the precocious young songstress was appearing on her own sponsored radio shows. In her teens she began touring her native Texas playing theaters, veterans' hospitals and army camps until she was signed by Interstate Theaters in Dallas. Appearing on the Interstate circuit, she also starred on its weekly radio show, "Showtime," emanating from the Palace Theater in Dallas.
While touring for Interstate, she was invited to appear on Don McNeil's famous "Breakfast Club" in Chicago, an engagement that was to be the first of a great many TV appearances in that area.
Singing for a local radio station with her husband, Bob Waterman, some time later, Alice became interested in Lawrrence Welk's search for a new "Champagne Lady." As we all know, the search ended the minute Alice Lon stepped up to the band stand of the Aragon Ballroom and sang in the same captivating voice and style that has delighted millions of televiewers and makes this album an outstanding listening treat.
