Lawrence Welk Top Tunes and New Talent Show from April 1957
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- All Shook Up - orchestra
I’m Sorry - Julie Vernon
Busy Fingers - Jack Imel
Dark Moon - The Lennon Sisters
Chante, Chante - orchestra
The Old Banjo - Jimmy Wright
Mister Wonderful - Alice Lon
Party Doll - orchestra
Almost Paradise - Maurice Pearson
The Buckskins
On the Alamo - Pete Fountain
Sitting in the Balcony - Diane Lennon & Larry Dean
Just a Tiny Little Rag - Big Tiny Little Junior
Say It Isn’t So - Julie Vernon
Round and Round - orchestra
Alice Lon and Rocky Rockwell in the supermarket
Blue Shadows on the Trail - The Buckskins
Make Believe - Joe Feeney
Pete Fountain & the Dixieland boys
Whiffenpoof Song - glee club
Thanks you have found another show from Lawrence. This again another truly entertaining show. GREAT STUFF........ THANKS...........
good song starts at 1:20 - Recommended. A lively and cheerful number (big band style). Lots of different instrumentation.
Wow, where you find this episode? Back then a sponsor got top billing with the show. There were many great songs but a few to many western songs. I couldn't believe how Mr. Welk was making fun of the guy with little hair. Thanks for uploading and I wish everyone a happy New Year.
Lawrence was talking about hair as Pete Fountain would get a hairpiece a few weeks later. He was only 27 but looked older and the hair helped & Pete became a BIG star a few years later. Lawrence was "teasing the audience" with his "hair" remarks. The show was from my rare collection - I traded with 2 people and now the video is all over the Internet. There's 1200 more shows in the Welk headquarters "vault" we'll probably never see. All great shows!
Looks like Welk was attempting his version of Your Hit Parade -- combined with Talent Scouts. Wonder if this was a part of his regular series == or if it was running concurrently with his regular show. Interesting that even the opening graphics had a flavor of Hit Parade. ...Rowby.
At that time Lawrence had two shows each week. I was on "Top Tunes and New Talent" in 1957, a few months before this particular show. It was absolutely live on the east coast at 8 PM (5 PM where the show was shot; in Hollywood) This was before videotape. But they did a fast film process (kinescope) so the show could be seen three hours later on the west coast. (8 PM pacific time). It was just about the top show regarding audience share. So if you "messed up" the world got to see it. Such pressure! It is these kinescopes we can now watch forever.
classy song starts at 3:39 - Recommended: "I’m Sorry" - by Julie Vernon. This young singer, 18 years old, is briefly introduced by Lawrence Welk just before she goes on to sing. She seems mature beyond her years, IMHO.
This song had only recently been popularized by the Platters, but had actually been first released on a record in 1952, by Bobby Wayne with orchestra accompanying. (Later, a much worse "version", with the same title but a very different song altogether, with different lyrics, was released in 1960 with Brenda Lee on the vocals. No comparison with the true song, which was first released in 1952.)