The Lawrence Welk Show: Calcutta `61

Here`s Bobby & Barbara dancing to "Calcutta" for the first time on the show (1961).

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[pattanac]

Impeccable dancing and beautiful song.

[musicbuff9]

I agree! Today's music is crap too much screaming. Lawrence Welk was the best. Kids wern't as wild back then. I wish young people would have appreciated Lawrence but he lasted 27 years on TV. I'm glad PBS brought him back.

[James Reyes]

Seeing this memorable dance sequence from nearly 50 years ago is very awesome. Anything better than Gangnam style & the Harlem shake.Now that's what i called Dancing.

[Emma Craig]

This is beautiful, thanks so much for uploading it.

[E Mack]

My grandmother's favorite show, and I always watched it with her. This brings back happy memories for me.

[musicbuff9]

My favorite Dance team. Bobby was Myron Floren's Son-in-Law They should be on Dancing with the Stars and show them how to dance. They can't dance well.

[Therese Callahan]

Forget Gangnam Style and The Harlem Shake. This was dancing at its best.

[anna konarska]

tego nie da się oglądać wstyd doprawdy dla YT

[altfactor]

Barbara Boylan and Bobby Burgess reportdely won a "Calcutta" dance contest, and the grand prizes were regular jobs as dancers on ther Welk TV show (in fact, Burgess stayed until the show ended in 1982).

Reportdely, Welk in 1960 had commissioned several songwriters to come up with a song that on the one hand would feature Welk's "champagne sound", but on the other hand, had a rock 'n roll tempo, since Welk wanted to get a top-40 hit that even teenagers would like.

This song was the result.

[Hambone571]

I like to hear comment by the judges on Dancing w/the Stars.. These two were perfection....