Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music. Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music.Vocal chorus by Larry Hooper The orchestra featuring Larry Hooper (piano) and. Medley: Little Brown Jug/Skip to my Lou/Polly Wolly Doodle 4. Tanya and Ralna, Lawrence and musicians join in for The Hippie segment. Here is a set of all instrumental accordion feature songs with International Polka Music Hall of Fame Myron Floren. Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music.Vocal by Helen Ramsay & Garth Andrews Myron Floren was the fine accordionist with the Lawrence Welk Show. Lawrence Welk & His Champagne Music.Vocal by Bob 'Tex' Cromer Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra with Red Foley I Wish That I Could Hide Inside This Letter Vocal chorus by Jayne Walton & Parnell Grina It’s an entertaining cross-section of his work, underlining his skill in refining his style to stay in touch with an evolving market to stay firmly in the public eye. It covers a remarkable range of styles, including vocal hits from the early part of his career in the ‘sweet’ dance band style of the war years, along with examples of his trademark polka tunes featuring his distinctive accordion sound, through to easy listening orchestral pop recordings during the 1950s. 1 “Calcutta” and the Top 10 hits “I Won’t Tell A Soul”, “The Moon Is A Silver Dollar”, “Don’t Sweetheart Me” and “Oh Happy Day”. This great-value 56-track 2-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from his singles for Vocalion, Okeh, Decca, Mercury, Coral and Dot labels during the quarter-century from the late 30s right through to the early ‘60s, and features over 30 chart entries, including the No. Performing what he christened early in his career as “Champagne Music”, he transcended all the upheavals in the pop music landscape during these times to maintain a consistent appeal to the broad middle ground of popular music tastes so that he was able to take advantage of the introduction of the stereo long-playing albums during the 1950s and beyond.
LAWRENCE WELK PENNSYLVANIA POLKA SERIES
Accordionist, bandleader, composer and TV impresario Lawrence Welk was one of the most visible and popular personalities in easy-listening orchestral pop music through several decades spanning the pre- and post-war eras, with his high-profile TV series “The Lawrence Welk Show” running for three decades from 1951 into the early ‘80s.
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