The Lawrence Welk Show: Goodnight Ladies `55

[Fiftiesflashback]

Ahhh...Champagne Music and a new Dodge Firedome! Life was really great in 1955.

[jamesptobin66]

He was a snappy and happy guy eh?

[n1cholson]

Was forced to watch this show in the 60's. It's still horrible.

[Needs2Know]

Best descending maj 3rd example ever! BTW what a cheesy host. And why does he have to look at the prompter so much? Ever wonder why our parents generation was so fucked up? They grew up with this shit!

[MrRanwolfe]

What is the name of this song I love it

[MacintoshWizard]

@MrRanwolfe Bubbles In The Wine

[Fiftiesflashback]

@MrRanwolfe The theme song after Goodnight Ladies is BUBBLES IN THE WINE.

[alanasings]

Super cute!

[simonchristl]

It's great being white. 

[fromthesidelines]

During the first four years of the show (1955-'59), it was originally "THE DODGE DANCING PARTY", with Chrysler's Dodge division as the sole sponsor. Welk, who previously appeared on local TV in Los Angeles from 1951 through '55, became a national icon with the show, originally intended as a "summer replacement", but successful enough for Dodge to sustain it into the early '60s. It also helped ABC "build" its Saturday night schedule- enough for Welk to knock NBC's Sid Caesar off the air in 1957.

[antzzy1]

@fromthesidelines thank you for the info....very interesting.

[cmulwee001]

I think this early closing is much more inverntive and innovative than the later, more generic Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedusehn[sp?] closing that came later. I like the later closing okay, but this is WAY more creative.

[coffdawg413]

I want this played at my funeral.

[SuperVegeta1200]

you can see him reading. good stuff

[antzzy1]

Thank you for posting this!

[johe64]

My grandma MADE me watch it as far back as I can remember, like when i was 5 in 1969... now I like it, sort of! LOL :)

[lakpolmit]

I grew up watching this show! Every Saturday night Lawrence Welk show came on. We kids loveingly called it the Bubble Head show. We would play in the school yard until a parent yelled, It's time for Lawrence Wlek! Then we knew it was time to go in. I don't think I or my family ever missed a week. Oh, the wonderful memories this brings.

[dmoutell]

I, too,love Lawrence's effervescence in these earlier years. Every once in awhile, you would see it in the later shows...but it just was not the same.

[picwoodrick]

Thank you for posting this!!!

[frankfan42]

Danged it he doesn't look as if he is enjoying himself here. That snap and pop was missing when I saw the show in the 70s. Lawrence had some energy!!!

[rentatrip1]

The Epitome of Class and grace & I will always have fond memories of the Goodnight Ladies Song -

If you did not grow up listening to this

you have been cheated out of a beautiful Childhood-

God Bless the "boys" and the champaigne music makers-

[Mkkl91]

is he looking at the autocue or is he just shy?

[DCBIGBLKMN]

Suddenly I have the urge to buy a Dodge. Strange.

[johe64]

@DCBIGBLKMN I DID buy a Dodge!!

[hownos]

the corniest man who had lived. but a good man.

[antzzy1]

Was a very wealthy man too!

[Fiftiesflashback]

DODGE DANCING PARTY ENDING LYRICS This Closing Theme was a medley of Good Night Ladies, Hope You Had a Happy Time (to the tune Mary Had a Little Lamb), and Bubbles In The Wine. Good-night ladies, Farewell gentlemen, So long everyone, It's time to leave you now . . . Hope you had a happy time, Happy time, happy time . . . Hope you had a happy time, (spoken solo:) Dodge had a good time too... (spoken by everyone:) Good night!" (Segue into Bubbles In the Wine theme)

[Fiftiesflashback]

DODGE had a good time, too!

[jakacat]

1:30 - The SNAP dance!

[juniemoonie6]

THE BUBBLES!!!