A Visit From Alice

In a kinescoped clip from a 1955 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here's Champagne Lady Alice Lon with "Hard To Get."

Enjoy!

Time For Myron, Boys And Girls

Here's a clip of a 1956 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here featuring Myron Floren playing Vincent Lopez's old theme song "Nola" on his Pancordion!

Someone Loves Ya, Baby!

Here's the opening of a 1963 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, with the Champagne Music Makers performing "Somebody Loves Me."

Time For The Champagne Medley------------Right After This Word From Our Sponsor

Here's a clip from the February 22, 1964 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show.  Following the commercial for Geritol (delivered by the host of The Original Amateur Hour himself, Ted Mack), we have Lawrence and his Champagne Music Makers with an abbreviated Champagne Medley ("I'm Through With Love" and "For All We Know").

Let's Turn On The Ole Wayback Machine

Here's a kinescope clip from the inaugural ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, dated July 2, 1955 for this piece of accordion wizardry from Myron Floren as he plays "Tico Tico."

Time For A Gypsy Love Song

In this clip from a 1962 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are Jimmy Getzoff (violin), Harry Hyams (viola), Charlotte Harris (cello), and Frank Scott (electric harpsichord) preforming Victor Herbert's "Gypsy Love Song."

Enjoy!

Norma Zimmer, R. I. P.

Norma Zimmer, best remembered as the Champagne Lady on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1960 until it ceased production in 1982, passed away on Tuesday at her home in Brea, California at age 87.


Before becoming the Champagne Lady, Norma was a studio vocalist and had worked with such pop stars as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.


On the Welk show, Norma sang solo or did romantic and inspirational duets with Jimmy Roberts.


It was after a year or so after the departure of Alice Lon, and a search by Lawrence for a replacement, that after several stints as a guest, Norma was named the permanent Champagne Lady.


Here's Norma in a kinescope clip from a 1961 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, singing "Always."





From the January 13, 1968 telecast of said program, here are Norma and Jimmy singing "Wonderful One."





Rest in peace, Norma.

It's Time For Lawrence Welk's Rock 'N' Roll Classics!

Okay, here are the Chantays performing their big hit recording of "Pipeline" on the May 18, 1963 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Enjoy!

Blast From The Past

From the ABC Network premiere telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, as aired on July 2, 1955, here's Myron Floren playing "Tico, Tico."

Time For Champagne Music

In this clip from the February 15, 1964 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are the Champagne Music Makers with "The Poor People of Paris."

Time For A Ragtime Classic From Jo Ann!

In this kinescoped clip from a 1959 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here's Ragtime Piano Gal Jo Ann Castle, in one of her earliest appearances as a regular member of the show's cast,  with her rendition of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag."

Time For The "Horn Pipe Polka," Everyone!

Here's a kinescoped clip from a 1959 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show.  Here, the boys perform "The Horn Pipe Polka," featuring Orie Amadeo on piccolo, Bill Page on Basoon, and Myron Floren on accordion.  Yes, that's Janet Lennon dancing with Lawrence.

Here Come The Lennon Sisters, Gang!

In this kinescoped clip from a 1959 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are the Lennon Sisters performing "Mississippi Mud."

 

Time To Dance The Schottische With Barbara and Bobby!

In this videotaped excerpt from a 1964 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are Barbara Boylan and Bobby Burgess dancing "The Norwegian Schottishce."  Myron Floren and Jo Ann Castle are on twin Pancordions.

Let's Dance!

In this clip from the January 11, 1958 ABC Network telecast of Lawrence Welk's Saturday night Dodge Dancing Party, here are the Champagne Music Makers perforning "Cheek to Cheek."

It's The Big Band Sound, Champagne Style

Here's a clip from the October 10, 1960 ABC telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are the Champagne Music makers performing Frankie Carle's theme song, "Sunrise Serenade."

Time For The Donkey Serenade

Here are Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music Makers performing Rudolf Friml's "Donkey Serenade" in this clip from a 1962 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Here's The Lombardo Trio------------------------NOT!

From the October 8, 1960 ABC Network telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show, here are the Champagne Music Makers playing one of Guy Lombardo's most identifiable hits, "Boo Hoo."  And here are Aladdin, Dick Dale, and Rocky Rockwell doing their Lombardo Trio impersonation with the vocal.  This was the episode that featured tributes to the star bandleaders of the Big Band Era.

 

Time For Barney-----And We Don't Mean Rubble, Fife, or the Dinosaur

Let's go back to October 8, 1960, for a clip from that night's ABC telecast of The Lawrence Welk Show.  The Champagne Music Makers, featuring Barney Liddell on trombone, perform "Marie," a song written by Irving Berlin that became a big hit in 1937 for Tommy Dorsey.

 



 That night, the show was devoted to the Big Band Era.  Songs popularized by such bandleaders as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and many others were featuring on this particular show.

Time For A Polka!

In this clip from a 1959 ABC telecast of Lawrence Welk's Saturday night Dodge Dancing Party, here's Myron Floren with "The Springtime Polka."