This strapping gentleman dancing with..his mother, I hope...at :48... How do I become that guy? He looks like he could tell the funniest joke, mix a great drink, and kick somebody's ass if he had to.
"Georgy Girl", the title song to the film Georgy Girl, performed by The Seekers, was a #1 Australian hit, and a #3 UK hit in late 1966 and into early 1967; in the United States, the song proved to be the Seekers' highest charting single, just missing the top spot, reaching #2 on the Billboard singles charts.
The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (music by Tom Springfield, lyrics by Jim Dale).
This was when singers could actually sing and vocalize so beautifully! It was also when music was fun, encouraging, refreshing (like others mentioned) and pleasant to the ear. It's a pleasure to listen to the radio when there are songs and singers like this on it. The singers didn't dress like harlots, but they had class. I miss all this stuff! Thanks Lawrence, Thanks Seekers and Thanks to all those who like beautiful quality music like this!
In a minute I would step back in time to be 16 years old again in 1963. If you did not live it I would like to take you back for the ride of a lifetime but I would love to alleviate the Viet Nam War. If that OK with you? I Lost two friends, Lawrence Welk was a weekly show and had some good music even though it was not Rock & Roll. Still I would not give up a minute of it. Nothing in my life could replace the 1060’s Thank You Sir David
Refreshing....this was a great tune...it's so nice to go back in memories...music will never be the same...wonderful to hear something nice versus the trash today in this era.
I wish the Seekers had appeared on the Lawrence Welk show because if you added Lawrence Welk's arrangement to the stylings of Judith Durham and Company, an excellent song would be even more so.
My parents had this "recording arrangement". It was on Welk's Dot LP "Hits of Our Times" from around 1967-8... strange that Welk decided to do it on his show in 1971.
@dancebandleader That "so-so tune" was #1 all over the world. One of the biggest selling records of its era. Written and produced by the great Tom Springfield. Recorded by the immensely talented Seekers. Their lead singer (then and now) is the legendary Judith Durham. That's some "so-so" tune...
I very much enjoy anything from the Lawrence Welk Show. Thanks for posting. When I was a kid, I would watch the show, and they show it on PBS today. It's a great show. That's when music was beautiful. Thanks for posting. I hear songs on that show that I haven't heard since I was a kid. Thanks and God Bless!
THAT WAS WILD!! One of the best things I've ever seen on YouTube! The GERITOL sign presiding over the proceedings... the yellow turtle-necked singers looking like a toothpaste commercial... the geriatric dancers... Man this was hilarious. Thanks for posting it.
Wow! this brings back so memories! I love the people dancing. We have nothing like this anymore. Sigh...I'm nostalgic! Thanks so much for posting this.
Nice an' snappy drumming! Hmmm.... I guess you had to be there back in the day to dig this type of TV program and how they done the hits of the day I remember Lawrence Welk (and his champagne music) quite clearly, but it wasn't part of our family's TV viewing. Too many kids and just one TV dictated that! Still, his instrumental treatments of the hits are cool in their own right. His orchestra is top rate and the singers sound clean, peppy, and with loads of zest! Geritol? Blah and yuck! ;-)
Surely the Seekers'original is the best, but this does bring back memories of an era when life was less complicated and happiness was...listening to "Georgy Girl" by the one and only Seekers on the car stereo sitting in the front seat next to my Mom and hearing her sing along. The guitar in this version also sounds very sixties, warm and fuzzy feelings, thanx a lot for posting!
The Sixties RULED. Everything in life, from music to the style of dress to the economy and living standards, was far more alive and superior than now. And pop culture was certain far, far better when compared to the pre-packaged corporate crap (like today's music) that gets rammed down our throats by a media that is equally corporate driven.
Plus, for those mocking this clip, if you took a moment to close your eyes & listen, you'd realize Lawrence Welk always did amazing arrangements musically.
Fantastic piece. People don't realize what they have in life. Should be more greatful. Day to day things are taken for granted. This music puts that pep in your step to go about your day and take on all obstacles, stress, good and bad times,even through this economic down swing. When you hit bottom the only way to go is back up! Keep the faith and keep listening to more welk tunes to get you through the week,month, year!
I'd rather go back to these years and live than be where we are at today. It may seem wierd to us today but their problems back then seem minor compared to economic mess that we are in today.
By all accounts The Seekers are kind, civilized and very generous people: Keith Potger, Athol Guy, Bruce Woodley and of course, Judith Durham. But if anything could incite these wonderful artists to anti-social behavior, it would be this...
0.52- nice couple
staporinac 5 days ago
:)
TheJth626 1 week ago
Those dancers are so cute
staporinac 2 weeks ago
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aimperator 8 months ago
I used to sit next to my grandma and watch Lawrence Welk with her when I was little! Boy do I miss those days!
doozydoozy 9 months ago 2
This strapping gentleman dancing with..his mother, I hope...at :48... How do I become that guy? He looks like he could tell the funniest joke, mix a great drink, and kick somebody's ass if he had to.
TheAmericanMosaic 9 months ago
Wow Georgy Girl on Harpschord! Very cool now.
LastTree 10 months ago 2
I like the brunette singer girl, I wonder where she is today ?
PupuTheClown 11 months ago
Absolutely nobody is enjoying themselves when you see the faces of the dancers.
unforgivenrl 1 year ago
When I was a child, I watched Lawrence Welk on Saturday evenings. I loved it! And this is a keen little version of this song.
LinusLacombe 1 year ago
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"Georgy Girl", the title song to the film Georgy Girl, performed by The Seekers, was a #1 Australian hit, and a #3 UK hit in late 1966 and into early 1967; in the United States, the song proved to be the Seekers' highest charting single, just missing the top spot, reaching #2 on the Billboard singles charts.
The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (music by Tom Springfield, lyrics by Jim Dale).
nutleyguitar1968 1 year ago
lyrics expunged to assist those with challenged memory spans...
dervauerbach 1 year ago
I love this version!
kampanagroup1 1 year ago
This was when singers could actually sing and vocalize so beautifully! It was also when music was fun, encouraging, refreshing (like others mentioned) and pleasant to the ear. It's a pleasure to listen to the radio when there are songs and singers like this on it. The singers didn't dress like harlots, but they had class. I miss all this stuff! Thanks Lawrence, Thanks Seekers and Thanks to all those who like beautiful quality music like this!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
What a great orchestra! Lawrence you were truly one of a kind!!!!
jlneis 1 year ago
This is cute! It has a very fun feel and I bet ya the Seekers were happy one of their songs got the Welk treatment!
abqwriter 1 year ago 2
In a minute I would step back in time to be 16 years old again in 1963. If you did not live it I would like to take you back for the ride of a lifetime but I would love to alleviate the Viet Nam War. If that OK with you? I Lost two friends, Lawrence Welk was a weekly show and had some good music even though it was not Rock & Roll. Still I would not give up a minute of it. Nothing in my life could replace the 1060’s Thank You Sir David
sixtiesforever1966 1 year ago
I was born in the wrong generation...this is awesome...today it is crap!
Gingertappz 1 year ago 4
Refreshing....this was a great tune...it's so nice to go back in memories...music will never be the same...wonderful to hear something nice versus the trash today in this era.
Godfather2458 1 year ago 2
Excellent performance by the Lawrence Welk Orchestra
mcfrdmn 1 year ago 2
I wish the Seekers had appeared on the Lawrence Welk show because if you added Lawrence Welk's arrangement to the stylings of Judith Durham and Company, an excellent song would be even more so.
Jaybird1103 1 year ago 2
My parents had this "recording arrangement". It was on Welk's Dot LP "Hits of Our Times" from around 1967-8... strange that Welk decided to do it on his show in 1971.
wildbilltexas 1 year ago
I think, maybe it was his Oscars tribute, which he used to do around the time of the Oscars each year. I could be wrong about that though.
mthivier 1 year ago
Hand me my Machine Gun!!!!
rotanmeg 1 year ago
This was a clever arrangement of a
so-so tune. But this merely a lip-sync
of a `1967 recording. It would have sounded better live. So many records
from this period have an excess of
artificial reverberation.
dancebandleader 2 years ago
@dancebandleader That "so-so tune" was #1 all over the world. One of the biggest selling records of its era. Written and produced by the great Tom Springfield. Recorded by the immensely talented Seekers. Their lead singer (then and now) is the legendary Judith Durham. That's some "so-so" tune...
iowa61 1 year ago 3
I very much enjoy anything from the Lawrence Welk Show. Thanks for posting. When I was a kid, I would watch the show, and they show it on PBS today. It's a great show. That's when music was beautiful. Thanks for posting. I hear songs on that show that I haven't heard since I was a kid. Thanks and God Bless!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 2 years ago
Oh Jesus but the 70's were an ugly decade. I was there, and it was as bad as this, and then some. Still, TV hasn't improved much though.
normvb 2 years ago
I was there too, and I still have the plaid bell bottoms to prove it!
mthivier 1 year ago
Geritol really did sponsor the show. Whoa.
NickB1967 2 years ago
Yes they did; watched a lot growing up
79pretzeltx 2 years ago
THAT WAS WILD!! One of the best things I've ever seen on YouTube! The GERITOL sign presiding over the proceedings... the yellow turtle-necked singers looking like a toothpaste commercial... the geriatric dancers... Man this was hilarious. Thanks for posting it.
larrynod 2 years ago
Ralna English was sooooooooo lovely!!
dangard88 2 years ago 3
Why harpsichord?
I just don't... what the fuck
samisyosam 2 years ago
Correction: "What the heck." [To me, that would be a much better saying.] Music from Lawrence Welk is very-very good!!
dalabaso428 2 years ago
great combination of a great song! love the spinet pianos and the audiences dancing. shows it serves all people and all ages!
sg2sin 2 years ago
Really a wonderful & delightful rendicion.
Kalepa81 2 years ago 2
this is ridiculous niggard,s
tohuvohu7 2 years ago
Endlich wieder! Eines meiner Lieblingsvideos in youtube!
Greetings from Berlin/Germany
dirkslan 2 years ago
ahhh, this is really what you call "feel good music"....brings back good old days...thanks for posting.
ejetch 2 years ago 3
People can like or dislike this type of music, but nobody can reasonably deny that Lawrence hired a lot of very capable musicians.
saturn5100 2 years ago 3
Right on; like it or not, he helped a lot of talented performers & mucisians
79pretzeltx 2 years ago
@saturn5100 Amen! After 50 years on TV, Lawrence knew what he was doing. He always had quality on his show.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
this makes me want to kill small animals
FatCalicoCat 2 years ago
Wow! this brings back so memories! I love the people dancing. We have nothing like this anymore. Sigh...I'm nostalgic! Thanks so much for posting this.
seawaguy36 2 years ago
@seawaguy36 I completely agree. This is nostalgic, classic and wonderful! It does bring back some great memories!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
Does anyone else get the Deja Vu feeling about this clip and the film "A Mighty Wind"??? Wow !
seeburg220 2 years ago
I remember that I was in 4th grade when it came out,but I was still too young to go out & buy the record.
dperez1963 2 years ago
I love the way it sounds,sparkliing & danceble. I give it a 10*
dperez1963 2 years ago 2
Nice an' snappy drumming! Hmmm.... I guess you had to be there back in the day to dig this type of TV program and how they done the hits of the day I remember Lawrence Welk (and his champagne music) quite clearly, but it wasn't part of our family's TV viewing. Too many kids and just one TV dictated that! Still, his instrumental treatments of the hits are cool in their own right. His orchestra is top rate and the singers sound clean, peppy, and with loads of zest! Geritol? Blah and yuck! ;-)
WallyPlumstead 2 years ago
Lawrence Welk The King Of Shmutz
Im gonna go bobbing for Prunes after this
magicman2001 2 years ago
Surely the Seekers'original is the best, but this does bring back memories of an era when life was less complicated and happiness was...listening to "Georgy Girl" by the one and only Seekers on the car stereo sitting in the front seat next to my Mom and hearing her sing along. The guitar in this version also sounds very sixties, warm and fuzzy feelings, thanx a lot for posting!
ThomaSKAptijn 2 years ago 3
for some reason, i have tears in my eyes!!
maybe for a lost lovely time....
dexyshotspur 2 years ago 13
*sniff*
Winky395 2 years ago 2
americans dont sound as good. The australlian accent sounds better! But awesome music!
PPTgames 2 years ago 3
A great tune no matter how one plays it!
buddy51 2 years ago 2
Oh dear i know i have had 2 bottles of merlot but this is awfull
markydjh 2 years ago
I'm....speechless.
And tired.
I think I need the Geritol.
ND2525 2 years ago
turn offa the bubble machine!!
toez2001 2 years ago
LAWL!
TheOmegaMan1976 2 years ago
This was great! Loved it!
RockabillyRicky 2 years ago 2
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ChuyKaW 2 years ago 12
@ChuyKaW I couldn't agree more. I hate the music my generation listens too.
chrishanson70 1 year ago
still cheesy! please take it off!
fireblade95 2 years ago
i love this song! but this is so.. er.. crap!
fireblade95 2 years ago
Lawrence Welk hired lots of talented musicians. Tank-uh-yoo, bice!
iwanagaa1919 2 years ago
The Sixties RULED. Everything in life, from music to the style of dress to the economy and living standards, was far more alive and superior than now. And pop culture was certain far, far better when compared to the pre-packaged corporate crap (like today's music) that gets rammed down our throats by a media that is equally corporate driven.
Plus, for those mocking this clip, if you took a moment to close your eyes & listen, you'd realize Lawrence Welk always did amazing arrangements musically.
GrdianAngl 3 years ago 26
George Cates probably had a hand in arranging this piece. He was Lawrence's musical director for many years.
rockymntain 3 years ago
I so agree... I'm only 18, so I missed the 60s... but I know how much better it was then... people really lived then...
MeganLouise90 3 years ago 4
@GrdianAngl I totally agree. I would give anything to live in the '60s. Minus the counter-culture, it was the best era!
chrishanson70 1 year ago
@GrdianAngl AMEN to that!!!!!!
doozydoozy 9 months ago
Fantastic piece. People don't realize what they have in life. Should be more greatful. Day to day things are taken for granted. This music puts that pep in your step to go about your day and take on all obstacles, stress, good and bad times,even through this economic down swing. When you hit bottom the only way to go is back up! Keep the faith and keep listening to more welk tunes to get you through the week,month, year!
envision43 3 years ago 3
I'd rather go back to these years and live than be where we are at today. It may seem wierd to us today but their problems back then seem minor compared to economic mess that we are in today.
mca320 3 years ago 3
By all accounts The Seekers are kind, civilized and very generous people: Keith Potger, Athol Guy, Bruce Woodley and of course, Judith Durham. But if anything could incite these wonderful artists to anti-social behavior, it would be this...
iowa61 3 years ago
man I used to watch this show with my mom when I was kid it was on right when "Hee Haw" and "Love Boat" was big
yellofury 3 years ago
The poofy hair...the polyester...the goofy smiles...hmmm, you're right- I'm darn proud!
bryan10011mc 3 years ago
How embarrassing...is this my country?
bryan10011mc 3 years ago
and just what is so embarrassing about it?
shoofirbin 3 years ago
this is fantastic bloody fantastic !
STUBALOO70 3 years ago
Bloody Brilliant
whispperson 3 years ago 2
Now I understand why people took LSD in the 1960's...without it you'd never realise what
a genius Lawrence Welk et al really was...Wunnerful,Wunnerful!!
petclark1 3 years ago 3
This is awesome! LOL!
NewOldVinyl 3 years ago 3
Classic!!
shawnmseymour 3 years ago 3