What's My Line? - Lawrence Welk; PANEL: Phyllis Newman (May 28, 1967)
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- MYSTERY GUEST: Lawrence Welk
PANEL: Phyllis Newman, Robert Q. Lewis, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
NOTE: This video combines two sources in order to include material from an incomplete version in higher quality.
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I watch these all the time. Daly was an utterly brilliant man and the perfect choice as show moderator.
Agree! Love his relationship with B.Cerf.
Agreed 💯 percent!!!!!
Totally agree with you
The Lawrence Welk show was my grandmother's favorite program. Lots of memories watching it with her.
Geritol logo was a prominent fixture on their set. I think it was a multivitamin in an alcohol base.
Oh yes, our family too! We watched it on Gramma’s&Grampa’s TV every Saturday night.
Same here!
@@jw77019Iron
My grandfather watched it all the time. I was never into it.
I am black and I loved Lawrence Welk and his show! I'm from the 'hood and that's saying a whole lot! I found the show when I was young and watched it into syndication. Don't tell my guys.
Felecia Cotton-McFarland wow...really? wow! i love you!!!♡
sheeet jyve tyme
@@easyaspi1177 yeah Arkansas girl is it jive time?
I hate when people have to preface their comments with their race. Who the fuck cares if you are pink, blue, green or silver. Get over yourself.
I had always assumed, until I googled him, that he was from Europe. Even though he was born in the US, Lawrence welk didn't learn to speak English until he was in his 20's. Fascinating men and fascinating story.
I discovered WML around the time the pandemic hit. This lovely sweet show has gotten me thru these very tough times. Every evening I escape to another time, another era...when people were well-mannered and always civil to one another. Oh, that our days would once again be such.
That is a common feeling amongst we fans. We also feel the show is currently playing, especially the very old ones. The comments say Dorothy looks great tonight or love the dress Arlene is wearing. We all participate in the illusion.
Make sure you watch the Jack Benny appearances. I've re-watched countless times.
The young perfume sniffer, Howard Kennedy, ended up with a wonderful career in the perfume industry. According to his bio, "His extensive perfume work for the company (Revlon) resulted in five FiFi Award wins for Fragrance of the Year. His winning fragrances were Iron, Lady Stetson, Stetson for Men, Sophia and Nuance. Two of these, Stetson and Sophia)" -- it's fun to see his humble beginnings here!
Thank you! I’ve learned so many things here on WML, I find myself goggling contestants. The show was certainly educational as well as entertaining.
Interesting!
I like it when people give us background on the contestants. I remember watching a show where Colonel Sanders was on, and I was floored that no one knew him. You just assume people would know these people. Haha
WOW. That's awesome.
@Martha Carnahan. Thank you for the information. I used to use Lady Stetson perfume when I was in my 20s. I really liked it. 🙂
When I was 7 or 8 I thought Lawrence Welk was just for old people now I watch his reruns.
And- a one and- a two🤣. I just couldn't resist. Love Lawrence Welk.
I may have said it before, but maaannn.. just listen to that applause for Welk. A Star.. who had his act together!
Mr. Welk was a perfect gentleman and tremendous entertainer and orchestra leader!!!!;
Phyllis Newman was such a cutie. So sorry we lost her last year.
Keep a song in your heart ❤️
Well-liked man. Show more popular now than when aired.
The Best Music
A true gentleman in the business, Lawrence Welk exemplified grace, modesty, and talent. He was a man who defined a long-lost generation of lovers of real music... we haven't seen the likes of him since his passing, and aren't likely to.
oldwestguy
Sorry that I have only one thumbs up to give you,
Er. Here's another four hundred and ninety nine!
I agree!
And cheap with the musicians paychecks.
@oldwestguy. I loved watching "The Lawrence Welk Show" every Saturday night in the 1970s. It was so much fun to watch! Lawrence Welk was a true gentleman who treated his musical 🎼 family very well.
@@lynettepalecek3141 Me too... my mom used to put it on... Saturday night like you said. I think thats where my interest in that style music originated. I was a young boy and it must have made an impression on me. I never did warm up to rock 'n roll, even as a teen.
I grew up on Lawrence Welk, every Saturday night with homemade pizza! Sweet memories. ❤️
Brings back lots of memories of my Dad preparing his Sunday School lesson while watching the Lawrence Welk show.
Lawrence Welk was and is still popular in my home county, San Diego. North of Escondido is a place originally called Lawrence Welk Village, where his music style is still performed. He lived there off and on in a palatial "cottage" which also has a couple of golf courses (Welk loved golf).
Unless I'm mistaken, this was the first appearance of Robert Q. Lewis in quite a long time. I'm glad to see that he got back at least once more before the series ended.
He had no middle name, so he decided that "Q" would be an interesting initial for a middle name.
Then why isn't he listed in the heading as a panelist?
I loved watching "The Lawrence Welk Show" every Saturday night in the 1970s. Lawrence Welk never finished school beyond the 3rd grade. Lawrence Welk actually directed the band on several occasions. He also danced with some of the female members of his musical 🎼 family and he danced with some female members of the audience. He chose a lot of extremely talented singers, dancers, and musicians for his show. He was an extremely humble person on the show and in real life. No musical show has been better than "The Lawrence Welk Show." It was on the air for over 20 years. I really miss that show and watching Lawrence Welk.
Back when life was a little gentler.
My dad never missed the Lawrence WelkShow even when I was a child.I watched that show as a teenager and liked the songs, bright colors, and the voices of the Lennon sisters sang well.
I remember the one Lennon sister played the wife of Rob on My Three Sons.
@@sandrageorge3488 The wife of middle son Rob (Don Grady) on My Three Sons was played by Tina Cole., a lovely member of the King Family Singers. The Lennon Sisters were Diane, Peggy, Kathy and Janet.
Me to 😊
@@sandrageorge3488, Tina Cole was Rob's wife,
LAWRENCE WELK Only show my mom ever took time to watch.
My mother love that show (LW) so much that she had us watching it every single week, she got a special joy out of watching a guy do his tap dance -- the guy would go all out in his performance.
To this day I know how to say good night in multiple languages because of that show
The tap dancer for a long time was a guy named Arthur Duncan...
@Truck Taxi. They said "Good night" in Spanish, French, and German. I really liked that too. 🕺💃
@@alanhumphrey4198, Arthur Duncan was the youngest of 13 children. When he got successful on The Lawrence Welk Show, he was able to help out his family.
Lawrence Welk had a long history of playing concerts in the Midwest before he ever made it to TV. This is a delightful story from the old days; I laughed so much at this when I first read it: "Mr. Welk knows personally many of the Nebraska farmers who attend his dances. Once he was driving from Des Moines to Norfolk, Neb., pointing out to his vocalist, Joan Mowery, the homes and farms of his acquaintances. Finally, at Hooper, Neb., Joan said, 'Listen, Lawrence, why don't you stop kidding us? You don't really know all these people.' 'I don't, eh?' he said, and swung the car into the next farm. 'It happened to belong to my friend Harry Kerstein,' Welk recalls. 'He was in his overalls, milking a cow. He said, 'Lawrence, you and your friends have got to stay for breakfast.' We stayed for dinner too, and had a typical Nebraska meal, with four kinds of meat and six kinds of vegetables and three kinds of bread. The people with me couldn't move afterwards. When we finally left I continued calling off the names of people who lived along the way. And you know, Joan never said another word about it.'" (The Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine, July 13, 1947)
romeman01 Welk told the story regarding previous Champagne lady Jayne Walton years later. Perhaps both ladies took a similar trip on separate occasions. The road trips were no picnic.
romeman01 this message was sponsored by Mutual of Omaha
Thank you! Lovely story.
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My folks used to dance to his music. I vaguely recall his show on WNAX, Yankton, South Dakota. He was the first to record for Decca Records. I recorded him once on-location for a PSA. He made a mistake and said, "Take-ah-two." No kidding. :)
I met Lawrence Welk briefly at a book signing in 1974. He was exactly the same sweet, gentle man seen in this mystery guest appearance. This is one of the most genuine, honest portrayals of Mr. Welk that I have ever seen. Whether or not Bennett Cerf's wife continued watching Lawrence's show, we don't know, but it was cancelled by ABC in 1971 and went into syndication thereafter on "the Lawrence Welk network". LW also appeared in the syndicated version of WML, I believe with host Larry Blyden.
romeman01 Lawrence seemed really happy at the ovation he got here
@@billolsen4360 I was surprised at the level of response he received. The only other MG I remember being asked if they were the President based on the ovation was Fred Astaire
Wunnerful, wunnerful!
Ah-one, ah-two
I grew up with the Lawrence Welk Show. Wonderful memories watching with my grandparents.🎶♥️🎶
"Oh--We just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Lawrence Welk and EVERYTHING he and his music represent!! More please!! MUCH MUCH MORE!! We will cherish this music FOREVER!!" -Black people and ALL minority races
Gotcha, if harkening back to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" psycho ward music is pertinent to what you are saying, as well. I'm just surprised you haven't gotten a reaction in 3 years.
I remember watching Lawrence Welk with my Grandfather.
I loved watching this show as a kid and enjoy it all over again.
Oh, and by fortunate coincidence, today is the birthday of Lawrence Welk!
We watched his show every week. Loved it ❤️
I couldn't conceive of recalling my younger years without remembering the Lawrence Welk Show. My mother thoroughly enjoyed it, and so did we. The whole family sat in front of our TV every week to watch it.
@@luissantiago8446, my late mom watched Lawrence Welk almost every Saturday night. My favorites were Myron Floren and Arthur Duncan.
OMG, I'd "have" to sit and watch the LW show with my grandmother. Hated it. What I wouldn't give to sit through another one with her now!!
My Grandparents told us that during the 20's and thirties they danced to the music of Lawrence Welk at the Normana Hall(Sons of Norway) in Everett Washington, He and his band made a regular circuit of the Normana halls when they were first starting out. I grew up listening to his show at my grandparents and my folks were fans. In an example of early childhood tv exposure leading to life long patterns, the first time i flunked the iron test when donating blood, My first and only thought was to rush out and get some Geritol for my iron poor blood. I never realized how deeply i had been programmed by watching all those years of bubble music.
Good thing you didn't buy the Geritol. The makers of the product at the time were subjected to the largest FTC fine up to that time for false advertising about what conditions the product would alleviate.
That was indeed a hearty ovation Lawrence Welk received. When I was in college (early 70s) I took a class in ballroom dancing, and the teacher frequently used his records, as they were very easy to dance to. Then my vocal music teacher gave me an old album from the Lawrence Welk TV show, featuring a 1957 Dodge on the back. Songs included Champagne Time, Bubbles In the Wine, and a lively rendition of the Clarinet Polka played on the accordian by Myron Floren. If I had a phonograph, I'd pay good money for a copy of that album.
Good for you. I think I have this album. The 3 selections you mention were included on the Coral LP
"Lawrence Welk Favorites" released around 1957. That release had no Dodge pictured on the back.
That distinction belongs to another LP "Bubbles In the Wine" from about the year before. It did
duplicate "Bubbles....", and another tune. Both LP's were compiled from single releases.
Amazon has a bunch of Welk CD's, check them out
"They're pyjamas, not pants!" A comment that initially made me confused, but after a trip to Wikipedia, I've learnt something new today.
This is a later WML than I'm used to. John Daly is looking older but still dapper. The women now have the bee hive hair do.
By this date, beehives were totally out of fashion by younger women.
Lawrence Welk. Still in syndication on PBS...... I once saw a parody commercial in the early 80's where the spokesman who was mimicking him said 'Tank you, tank you. If you bought a VHS tape of every Lawrence Welk show it would cost you more than $ 200,000!!!!! '. Could very well be . He certainly was the longtime Saturday night TV main attraction for the older set who never missed him. He became an American institution.
I remember an episode of Hollywood Squares in which the question was true or false -- a man in Florida cut the TV feed into a nursing home right before Lawrence Welk came on. You knew it had to be true because the people on the show weren't clever enough to come up with that idea on their own. And it was true.
When I was a child I would turn the knob on the tv set the other, long way around to avoid even a second of Lawrence Welk. He was the head statesman of uncool. I would listen to the radio (EGADS!) at night rather than Lawrence Welk. But, now, as I sink down into my dotage, I like him and can listen to his music. I guess it's time one of you lil' fellers applied the resuscitation to me. Lord, lord, lord. Life support here I come!
I find some people as young as their 40s watching Welk on PBS, so don't feel you've got one foot in the grave and the another on a banana peel. I've also heard of music majors who watch whenever he spotlights a composer (Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Henry Mancini, etc.). I'll even watch him myself when PBS shows one with Pete Fountain (always one of my favorite jazz musicians) and Alice Lon (who seemed more versatile than Norma Zimmer).
Sorry, that should be "and the other on a banana peel".
I have to agree that the "One Toke Over the Line" story has been worked to death so I'll try to avoid it in the future. I think one aspect of Welk's genius, though, was the way he marketed himself: calling the music Champagne Music (even if a dancer at a ballroom did suggest the term), the bubble machine, "A-one and a-two," etc. And he must have been doing something right, since he still draws viewers, some of whom would have avoided him like the plague thirty or forty years ago.
I have seen "Calcutta" mentioned. Let me mention "Copy Cat" and "Apples & Bananas". But usually Lawrence Welk comes across as bland.
Bennett Cerf was my favorite panelist on this show!
Arlene Francis was 59 years old, when this What's My Line episode aired -- she looks great.
What a delight to see such professional friendship among talented, 20th century folks instead of the 21th century, professional back-stabbing by 21th century, untalented nobodies.
The NOTHING people
WE lived through the best! You are welcome to the rest. Much good may it.do you!
Last Days of Grace, culture, elegance in dress and care in appearance= respect for the audience and panelist. Such a Gentleman as Lawrence Welk will probably be only in our dreams.
Phyllis pajama pants suit and Arlene's gown must have been eyes full collectively in color.
Everyone loved Lawrence Welk, my grandparents would never miss his show, so schmaltsy
I remember seeing this episode when it originally aired. I also remember seeing Lawrence Welk as a mystery guest a few years later on the syndicated WML.
I love these old black-n-white shows!
An aside -- I have two degrees of separation between Welk and me. I taught the son of Welk vocalist Sandi Jensen Griffith in one of my 1990s college composition courses at what evolved into U V U, Orem Utah.
Just love the panel when they learn the “lines” They smile and laugh.
I had no idea who Phyllis Newman is, but she looks really good.
She was mainly known for Broadway (although she did appear on David Frost's US version of "That Was The Week That Was"). I figure you checked in and know her husband Adolph Green was a Tony-winning lyricist (with Betty Comden)
Welk had a great smile. Parents fave program.
I always enjoyed the Lawrence Welk show & never met him but I played Dixieland Jazz Music with several of his key members to incl,
Pete Fountain, Peanuts Hucko, Peewee Irby, Al Hurt, & I was a stdt at University of Miss, "Ole Miss", at same time w/Guy Hovis.
Lawrence Well was a great host & musician as we're his 75 piece orchestra & singing staff There may never be another band like Welks. Joe G. Bowen. Miss Gulf Coast. Riviera of the south
Q could play the game as the second game illustrates -- in reverse. Q also substituted enough times for Bud Collyer on "To Tell the Truth" that it is noticeable in the Wikipedia TTTT lists.
Robert Q, Lewis hosted at least two other G-T games: "The Name's the Same'" from 1951-54 and as Merv Griffin's replacement on "Play Your Hunch" in the 1962-63 season after NBC gave Merv an afternoon talk show. I think he also hosted the original 'Make Me Laugh" in 1958.
🤍WAS SO CURIOUS TO SEE, LAWRENCE WELK, ON THE PROGRAM. HE WAS A GREAT PROMOTER, BESIDES EVERYTHING ELSE HE DID🍂
Thank you for uploading this! I've been wanting to see this episode for awhile now. I've been a fan of Mr. Welk's since I was a baby (20, you can do the math), and this is just a treat to watch.
You're very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Kerry Crouch
I'm curious -- how did you get introduced to Lawrence Welk's music or shows at such a young age? Were your parents fans of his, or did they maybe think (apparently correctly in your case) that his kind of music would be comforting and appealing to a young child?
SaveThe TPC I was basically introduced to Mr. Welk in the womb basically. My mother was watching, I'm guessing a re-run of a Christmas special in Dec '93 and somehow the music got me to stop kicking. So, that's basically how it made me a happy baby and now an adult. I was born in May '94, and I don't plan to giving up this type of music. It's because of Mr. Welk and the show that I've grown to other big bands and artists like Frank Sinatra. My mom was always satisfied with me listening to this when I was younger. I'm proud to be a fan of his and continue to, and find a way to keep the show running on PBS as long as I'm alive.
Kerry Crouch You have good taste. Another post of mine is here too.
Why did it take so long for Lawrence Welk to appear on the program? He was one of the biggest TV stars of the Golden Age of Television, and of the elderly TV audience. So surely, he could have found the time to make an appearance on WML.
I think that the producers of the show did not like the expense of bringing guests into town, but preferred to have guests who were already in NYC for some reason. That is why the panel read up on who was in town and was so quick to get so many guests; it was almost impossible to have an unexpected guest. The LW Show was done in California and when the Welk orchestra toured during the summer months he went from one place to another, sometimes at great distances from each other. These facts probably precluded an appearance previously. Evidently this visit to NYC was written up ahead of time in the press and Goodson-Todman were able to get him before he rushed back to the West Coast.
romeman01 And Welk said his show was going into its 12th year. He didn't include the KTLA years (1951-1955).
These are some clips of a concert nine years after this WML appearance czcams.com/video/kHxct-7482o/video.html . It's the only amateur footage of a live Welk concert that I've ever seen.
Maybe it's because I'm from ND & grew up watching the Lawrence Welk Show but, I would've recognized him by his yes & no sounds.
I want to be the first to say that by an extraordinary and extremely felicitous coincidence, this video has been made public here on the birthday of Lawrence Welk!
Yes! I'm sorry I didn't catch your comment here until now. ***** also pointed this out.,Like the other time (or times?) this has happened, pure coincidence! (I definitely remember that the show with Leontyne Price was posted on her birthday-- there might have been one other)
Cool!
It sure was! LOL
Wonderful Lawrence Welk and Walt Disney every Sunday night. The good old days.
Wonderful times! Lawrence had an unmistakable voice......I was a kid, but loved his show and the bubbles, beautiful dancing, and wonderful music.
I'm sad that Lawrence Welk didn't make little bubble drawings when he signed in. More bubble drawings!
Lawrence Welk. Speechless. I have wanted to see this episode for years, especially when I found out from W G W that the episode was somehow not lost. Welk, I hear, started on radio back in the 30s and on a local Los Angeles TV station in 1951. Both Welk's show and WML started as mid season / summer replacement programs that did great in the ratings. In the 1950s, Welk's audience was big and wide demographically. By the late 1960s his audience evolved to the older. In 1971, ABC-TV cancelled his program on the issue of his older demographic. Welk followed G-T's lead with WML and its supposedly older demographic and created a syndication network of his own. Very soon he was on more stations than in the entire ABC Network. Syndicated Welk lasted from 1971 to 1982, with specials from 1983 - 1985. Then off to PBS went his collection. I don't know how much of the Welk Archive survived the years, but there was a lot of it -- and it went to color in 1965 early in ABC color TV history.
Pre-KTLA, Lawrence Welk did a number of 78 rpm recordings (quite a few of them polkas) and some videos known as "soundies," which are on CZcams (see the channels of lrh1966 and Chris Pikal, respectively, for example). He did regular radio in the 1940s and was a mainstay at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Although he seemed to come from nowhere when he burst onto the national TV screens, he had already spent decades in direct contact with the public during concerts in large and small towns, especially in the Midwest.
my thanx for this information.
The local Los Angeles TV station on which Welk's show appeared was KTLA. According to someone's recollections in Jeff Kisselloff's excellent book, THE BOX: AN ORAL HISTORY OF TELEVISION 1908-1961, Klaus Landsberg, the station manager at KTLA, hired Welk and his orchestra when they were performing regularly at the ballroom on the pier at Santa Monica. That weekly show (as with many of Landsberg's music shows on KTLA at the time) attracted more viewers in L.A. than the network shows. Hence, ABC eventually came along after Landsberg's death and offered Welk a much more lucrative deal - and the rest is history.
@@romeman01 Which is why he had wide appeal in the Midwest. Much of the immigrants from Europe, who settled in the Midwest, hailed from the German speaking areas of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
@@luissantiago8446 "Mr. Welk knows personally many of the Nebraska farmers who attend his dances. Once he was driving from Des Moines to Norfolk, Neb., pointing out to his vocalist, Joan Mowery, the homes and farms of his acquaintances.
"Finally, at Hooper, Neb., Joan said, 'Listen, Lawrence, why don't you stop kidding us? You don't really know all these people.'
"'I don't, eh?' he said, and swung the car into the next farm.
"'It happened to belong to my friend Harry Kerstein,' Welk recalls. 'He was in his overalls, milking a cow. He said, 'Lawrence, you and your friends have got to stay for breakfast.' We stayed for dinner too, and had a typical Nebraska meal, with four kinds of meat and six kinds of vegetables and three kinds of bread. The people with me couldn't move afterwards.
"'When we finally left I continued calling off the names of people who lived along the way. And you know, Joan never said another word about it.'" (The Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine, July 13, 1947, p. 25-C)
My Mom loved the Lawrence Welk show never missing an episode ...fond memories
That was the only time mom commandeered the TV.
Gail Sirois
So? And what of it? What do you want? A hero cookie? 🙄
Nobody gives a damn what your mother loved.
Coincidentally, both Welk and WML would later follow their very successful network runs with long-running syndicated versions.
The return of the Q
Q? LOL. KENNEDY!!!!
@@prairieflower427 Q. = Robert Q Lewis
@@Sylvander1911 That is so WEIRD. Some people that Q is JFK jr. LOL. Long story if you don't know.
Sweet! This aired the day before my 10th birthday!
Gotta luv Lawrence !
My great aunt loved Lawrence Welk. ♥️
Lawrence's "keep listening" comment made me wonder...
the 1966-1967 season winding up (days away to reruns) was in a tie as 10th most popular but 1967-1968 season dropped to 17th for easy to assume the popularity had been waning for some weeks prior to this May 28th air date. but wasn't canceled until Apr 17, 1982 last airing (15 y later)
My parents favorite show. Mr. Welk has a wonderful smile. Should have spent some champagne music money to fix his grill.
Lawrence Welk had twin daughters..He named them: Anna 1....Anna 2
Niice...🥸
Daly looks even more sad saying goodbye thwn he did last week!
Lawrence Welk gets in a good jab! But you can tell they are getting nostalgic about the shows cancellation.
When I was a little fellow, I watched this show on Saturday nights with my grandparents. When the show when to color and then from live to video tape, they prerecorded the singers and skits, so most of them lipsinked their music and speaking parts. It annoyed me that it wasnt live and they couldnt keep up with the recordings, so they were not in sink with their recordings. I think it was better when it was all live performances. Sorry the show is gone. I havent seen it in years. If Lawrence Welk was born in North Dakota, why did he speak with an accent. I thought he was from Canada and had a French Canadian accent. It was all nice while it lasted.
+mudgebauer The little town in North Dakota that he was from was a German speaking community, thus the accent. Strange but true.
There's an urban legend that Welk didn't learn English until he was 21 but I believe he began learning English when he started to school. When he went on television he was somewhat self-conscious about his accent and wanted a more conventional announcer to host the show and introduce the numbers. KTLA's people wouldn't hear of it. Can you imagine a Welk show without "a-one and a-two" or "Wunnerful, Wunnerful"?
The community where Welk grew up (Strasburg, ND) was primarily German-speaking . His parents had emigrated to the U.S. 11 years before he was born. They did not come directly from Germany, but instead from the Ukraine portion of the Russian Empire. Although the German side of my family settled in NYC, what we appear to have in common is that they were Roman Catholic and went from Germany to Russia before coming to the U.S. (although from what I know of my family's history, at least a generation earlier than Welk's family).
Lucille Ball about Welk [after he appeared on her show]: "Well, he's not too bright"...lol
Once again Bennett Cerf "guesses" the mystery guest. As he admitted in November 1966, his wife, Phyllis, was told the name. We are expected to believe she only slipped up once.
The moderator is really great!
Lawrence Welk's license plate read; A1 AN A2.
My grandparents always watched him, but I must admit that, being a teenager back then, I was not a fan of champagne music.
I grew up watching Lawrence Welk every week. I always figured the champagne that went with his "champagne music" was the $4 per bottle, Charmat bulk process stuff.
Wow! Pleasantly surprised to see someone knew that! As a big license plate collector and dealer, I like to see that knowledge out there.
I'm not either, but I have to give him credit for his talents. I do like the syndicated end credits of "Good night, sleep tight until we meet again."
In Jo Ann Castle's first couple or three appearances on Lawrence Welk's show, she played accordion - and how her fingers could fly when she played! (In fact, I saw those clips of Jo Ann on CZcams - they may still be up.)
LOA1955
Yes he was a favorite of my grandmother. I was also a sullen teenager in the living room.
Lawrence Welk. What a nice man.
Why did Mr. Daly start saying, “sign in after you’ve entered please.”
What happened to his spirited, “Enter and SIGN IN PLEASE!”
Revlon sponsored some of the late 1950s game shows that were embroiled in the quiz show scandals. And they sponsored big time Miss America in the 1950s and 1960s.
God i love those beehive hairdos!
It's bittersweet watching these shows since most of those folks are long gone now.
I lived in Pendleton Oregon for years where the lady weight lefter was from
Bennett Cerf aged well
I have been watching the 1950's episodes and suddenly this came on autoplay and I wondered why everyone looked so much older, seems this is 1967, 10+ years on, yikes, the picture quality looks the same as 1955 so I assumed it was still the mid 50s.
I just looked up Lawrence Welk. Turns out both his parents were German. Growing up, my mom always said he was Scandinavian. Nope. German. She also always said Mama Cass died from choking on some food. Nope. She died of heart problems. No food found in her throat.
Phylis has the cutest laugh.🙂🙂🙂🙂
Bennett Cerf is back!
Phyllis Newman was before her time, the college kids wear pajamas outside now.
That's how out of it RQ Lewis was. Even from a polite audience, I doubt President Johnson would have gotten an ovation of great acclaim in May of 1967. Maybe his little brother Dinky, but not Lyndon. It would have been polite, but not a Kennedy style screamfest. Remember the war in Vietnam was becoming very unpopular (and NYC was hardly hard hat land) and riots and general discombobulation in the country was roaring.
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Johnson was as big of a criminal as many of the alleged POTUS of the past decade, including the current impersonator.
Joe Postove “Becoming” unpopular? Substitute extremely unpopular, counterproductive and illegal.
Some that I don't think were ever on, Frank Nelson (JACK BENNY and Lucille Ball radio/TV), Billy De Wolfe (DORIS DAY, THAT GIRL, FROSTY HE SNOWMAN., GOOD MORNING WORLD,, the first one, with Bing Crosby DIXIE, the two with Doris Day LULLABYE OF BROADWAY & TEA FOR TWO), Fred Waring (many records/radio shows, FRED WARING SHOW,etc.)
Whenever Phyllis Newman laughs, she sounds like she's going to huck out a lung or something. Such a sharp contrast to the refined elegance that is our most beloved Arlene Francis.
Lily, I share your repulsion of poor Phyllis, but I still don't know exactly why.
I keep thinking it's geese flying overhead.
@@davidsanderson5918 man you people ! You'd think Phyllis came out against motherhood AND fresh air
There are certain myth's about Welk's music and musical style that persist even though they have no basis in fact. Old person's music from 1965 to 1982 it was not -- necessarily. In 1960, Welk's orchestra recorded "Calcutta" which actually was a hit that demonstrated to Welk at least that good music and something with a reasonably contemporary sort of beat were compatible. Certainly in syndication Welk's orchestra played contemporary music but not what could be called this season contemporary. A few months later, Welk hired for a year a person that became a star of contemporary country music -- Lynn Anderson.
Reportedly LW did not like the song Calcutta, but allowed his musical director George Cates to override him on that one. I have also read that Cates and not Welk conducted the recording that became a hit. Lynn Anderson made it onto the show, from an item I read at Google books, because LW Jr. had developed a monstrous crush on her. Apparently both sets of parents attempted to ensnare the two in the bonds of holy matrimony, "but it didn't work," to quote Lynn Anderson.
I think Larry Jr did marry one of the Welk singers. I am working from my memory here so stand back. Tanya Fallin Welk??
Tanya Falan did indeed marry Lawrence Welk Jr., a union that lasted for a little more than a decade. They had two children, Lawrence Welk III and Kevin. LW III, who, like his father, prefers the name Larry, has achieved some fame as a news helicopter pilot. To quote Larry King, "You were the helicopter pilot following O.J."
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I hate to burst your bubble (pun intended ;) ), but any attempts by Lawrence Welk and his orchestra to do "contemporary" music during the time period you mention were embarrassing at best. He may have managed to make contemporary music palatable to the older generation, but in doing so, he neither captured the soul and spirit of the music nor made his style of music palatable to the younger generation! He seems like a nice man, though.
Soul and spirit were secondary to bringing music to people who as a general rule knew nothing about music except maybe dance rhythm.
That sounds like Johnny Olson as the announcer.
That is correct. Johnny Olson is the announcer on the show.
I was 10 when this aired. I always thought Phyllis Newman was hot. Note her hairdo compared to the earlier episodes in the 50’s and early 60’s.
Both John Charles Daly and Arlene Francis look hungover
Tammy had quite the hairdo! 😜
Love the dress Mrs. Thorne's wearing
Johnny O was right in 1967 a lot of things were going better with coke.
Mr. Kennedy was one of very few black guests who was on the show merely for his line, as opposed to being a celebrity mystery guest.
@gcjerryusc what? Is it not true?
@gcjerryusc I’m not sure what you’re talking about, or what any of it has to do with me.
So what.
I have seen quite a few.
I agree with the original comment.
For the weightlifter teacher: I don't get why John withdrew "No" after "Is what you do more for women than men"? I'm pretty sure there are more male weightlifters, unless she, herself, only deals with women
That is where the confusion was. Yes, she only deals with women, but weightlifting itself is more common for men.