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The Lawrence Welk Show: Richard Rodgers Medley

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Uploaded by on Feb 23, 2009

George Cates conducts the orchestra! (1960)

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  • GREAT sound, esp. the strings! Who does the violin solo on "If I Loved You"? Love the shuffle-rhythm "Thou Swell" with Norman Bailey's Busse-style trumpet!!

  • Jimmie Getzoff is the violinist. He was on from 1960-62 between Dick Kesner and Joe Livoti.

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  • @don3comp Trumpet is long-time Welk sideman Norman Bailey, who had earlier played for several years with the Freddy Martin orch.

  • Anyone know who the solo trumpet player is at 3:51?

  • @kurtarmbruster I thought he arranged, but now my memory is plucking the oft-said phrase "Here's George Cates conducting another fine Bob Ballard arrangement," so I'm less certain...

  • Man Jerry Burke has the classic organist look!

  • I've learned that the very first part is the actual intro to Slaughter on 10th Avenue...thanks for the info!

  • Ok, I know all the tunes here starting with a bit from Slaughter on 10th Avenue, then Lover, If I Loved You, There's a Small Hotel, It's A Grand Night For Singing, Thou Swell, and then another little bit of If I Loved You...but what is the intro to the medley?? Can't seem to place it!

  • George Cates=Edward Hopper with a goatee! Stunning resemblance. Did he arrange, or just conduct? I ask, 'cause he conducted a chart of Rhapsody in Blue around 1980 that had the most execrable chord substitution at the climax, for which I will never forgive the perpetrator. Fun stuff this, glad it's available!

  • Thanks for the info, TV. Yet another superb Welk sideman who deserves to be remembered...his solo on this clip is truly beautiful

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