1953 HITS ARCHIVE: Oh Happy Day - Lawrence Welk

From 1953, it's time for "Oh, Happy Day" with Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music.


Deep-voiced Larry Hooper provides the vocal here.


Released on Coral #9-60893.

Lawrence Welk- "Merry Christmas." 1956

"Merry Christmas" from Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music!

Here are the tracks on this 1956 Coral LP album ( CRL-57093):

0:00 Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
2:25 I Wanna Do More Than Whistle
4:51 White Christmas
7:23 Christmas Island
9:45 The Christmas Toy
12:36 Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
14:42 Winter Wonderland
17:00 Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)
19:36 Christmas Comes But Once A Year
22:05 Thanks for Christmas
24:30 Twelve Days of Christmas
27:51 High on the Housetop

Among the featured performers: The Sparklers, Alice Lon, The Lennon Sisters, Dick Dale and Larry Hooper.

Lawrence Welk - I'll See You In My Dreams

Here's a cut from a Coral Records album of multiple extended-play 45 RPM records as Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music Makers play "I'll See You In My Dreams."

Then Champagne Lady Roberta Linn does the vocal here on this recording from around 1951 or '52.

1956 Lawrence Welk - Moritat (A Theme from “The Three Penny Opera”)

From The Threepenny Opera, here's "Moritat," with Lawrence Welk and His Sparkling Sextet.

This song is best remembered lyrically as "Mack the Knife."

Maybe Lawrence should have had Larry Hooper, Bob Lido, or Rocky Rockwell sing it.

This 1956 recording was released on Coral #9-61574.

Goree Carter - I'm Your Boogie Man

Time for some rockin' good music from Goree Carter as he sings "I'm Your Boogie Man."

This 1951 recording was issued on Coral #65064.

Kenny Roberts "Sleighbell Polka" 1952 Christmas Western Swing 78 RPM Record

From 1952, here's Kenny Roberts with "Sleighbell Polka," a song that he co-wrote.

Released on Coral #60884.

BOOGIE WOOGIE YODEL SONG by Kenny Roberts 1949

Here's Kenny Roberts with the "Boogie Woogie Yodel Song," recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 8, 1949 and released on Coral Records, a Decca subsidiary, in May, 1950.

Kenny co-wrote with number with Cliff Smith.