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Season 5 (ABC) (1959-60)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger [Uploaded June 2020 RF]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)

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ABC Sat 6-7pm (West Coast) / ABC Sat 9-10pm (Eastern)

5.01 [215] The Lawrence Welk Show
05Sep1959 [Independent]
Guest
Betty Cox is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Jo Ann Castle performs "The Painter's Rag" (which she wrote).
Lawrence and Jo Ann on accordion perform "Here's Katy".
*Note: Jo Ann Castle was introduced to Lawrence Welk by Joe Feeney.
She became a permanent member of the show replacing Big Tiny Little who left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NeYRrWGj3A

5.02 [216] The Lawrence Welk Show
12Sep1959 Sat
Guest
Singer Molly Bee is the Champagne Lady.
Also appearing are the Lennon Sisters, Maurice Pearson, Dick Dale, Larry Hooper, Alvan Ashby and Cubby O'Brien.
Highlights:
Songs include "The Three Bells" and "The Waltzing Cat".
Molly Bee sings "School Days" and "Just Another Polka".

5.03 [217] The Lawrence Welk Show
19Sep1959 Sat [Fort Worth Star][Miami Herald]
Featured Lennon Sisters, Dick Dale, Jack Imel, Cubby O'Brien,
Brian Siebman, Myron Floren, Maurice Pearson and Alvin Ashby.
Guest
Julie Mason is the Champagne Lady. (dubbed the new "Doris Day".)
Highlights:
Welk's Dixieland combo will offer "Tailgate Dixie".

5.04 [218] The Lawrence Welk Show
26Sep1959 Sat
Guest
19-year-old Barbara Lantz is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters and Maurice Pearson sing "Lida Rose".
Janet Lennon, Brian Siebman and Cubby O'Brien harmonize with "Phantom Rider".

5.05 [219] The Lawrence Welk Show
03Oct1959 Sat [Miami Herald]
Guest
John Gary
Highlights:
Young baritone John Gary will appear in a guest spot,
singing "Thank the Lord for This Thanksgiving Day".
The Lennon Sisters sing "Mississippi Mud".
*Note: No Champagne Lady this week.

5.06 [220] The Lawrence Welk Show
10Oct1959 Sat
Tonight's show was taped in Honolulu.
Guest
Governor William E. Quinn of Hawaii appears on the program.
Also appearing are the Lennon Sisters, Dick Dale, Aladdin, Maurice Pearson, Jerry Burke,
Art Depew, Jo Ann Castle, Larry Hooper and the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters and Larry Hooper perform "Hawaiian War Chant".
Jerry Burke and Buddy Merrill perform "Sweet Leilani".
The Lennon Sisters and Dick Dale perform "Hawaiian Wedding Song".
Violinist Dick Kesner performs "Hawaiian Paradise".
Jo Ann Castle plays "So You Want to Dance the Hula".

Full Episode: https://www.solie.org/alibrary/LawrenceWelkShow_505LivefromHawaii.html
Solo Episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6QFuFtvPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jP5PI-hFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjuzmTKQLhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFw0qEMB1Y

5.07 [221] The Lawrence Welk Show
17Oct1959 Sat [Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph]
Featured The Lennon Sisters, Bob Lido and Larry Hooper.
Guest
Gina Genardi is the Champagne Lady. (big singing hit in Canada)
Highlights:
Dianne Lennon and Larry Hooper duet to "Please Give Me Something to Remember You By".
Jim Roberts sings "Cottage For Sale".
The Welk Glee Club will perform "The Drinking Song", from 'The Student Prince'.

5.08 [222] The Lawrence Welk Show
24Oct1959 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Guest
Laurie Johnson is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Alvin Ashby, Jimmy Henderson, Buddy Hayes, Dick Dale,
Bob Lido, Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon take sides in the
musical argument of "The Martins and the Coys".
Aladdin is featured in the novelty song "Bring Back My Lena".

5.09 [223] The Lawrence Welk Show
31Oct1959 Sat
Guest
Louise Drake of Minneapolis is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Kathy and Janet Lennon sing "Whistle a Happy Tune".
Aladdin sings and plays "Liechtensteiner Polka".

5.10 [224] The Lawrence Welk Show
07Nov1959 Sat [News Journal]
Guest
Peggy Dietrich is the Champagne Lady. (a singer Walter Winchell said "had it")
Highlights:
Dick Kesner on violin will play "My Buddy", in
honor of Veterans' Day.
The Lennon Sisters, Dick Dale, Bob Lido, Larry Hooper
and Jimmy Henderson sing "Let's Gather Around the Old Piano".

5.11 [225] The Lawrence Welk Show
14Nov1959 Sat [Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph]
Guest
Kay Hart is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Bob Lido, Jack Imel and Bo Wagner share the spotlight
for a rendition of "Shine on My Shoes".
Maurice Pearson, Larry Hooper, Dick Plinger, Dick Dale
and the Lennon Sisters collaborate on "Some Sunday Morning".

5.12 [226] The Lawrence Welk Show
21Nov1959 Sat [Independent][Times Recorder]
Thanksgiving Day Show
Guest
Clare Nelson is the Champagne Lady. (Miss Pennsylvania 1951)
Highlights:
The Welk Glee Club sings "Thank the Lord for This Thanksgiving Day".
Bob Lido will lead a group of Champagne Music Makers including
the Lennon Sisters and a jazz combo in a musical biography of
"Jamboree Jones".

5.13 [227] The Lawrence Welk Show
28Nov1959 Sat [Salt Lake Tribune]
Guest
Pam Garner is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Larry Hooper, Cubby O'Brien, Brian Siebman, Janet and Kathy Lennon
are featured in a production number singing "Do-Re-Mi".

5.14 [228] The Lawrence Welk Show
05Dec1959 Sat [Napa Valley Register]
Featured Alvino Rey, Bob Lido, Rocky Rockwell,
Larry Hooper and the Lennon Sisters.
Guest
Lynn Roberts is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Lawrence Welk is featuring guest guitarists on the program
in a search for a permanent replacement for Buddy Merrill
while he is in the service. Alvino Rey is the seventh guest
guitarist since Buddy Merrill entered the Army.
"Winter Wonderland" will be one of the musical highlights.

5.15 [229] The Lawrence Welk Show
12Dec1959 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Guest
Mary Ann Luckett of Louisville is tonight's Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Larry Dean and the Lennon Sisters sing "Let's Have an Old-Fashioned Christmas", "Nuttin' For Christmas".
Rocky Rockwell offers the novelty song "Nuttin' For Christmas".
Other Songs include "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" and "The Happy Wanderer".

5.16 [230] The Lawrence Welk Show: Christmas program.
19Dec1959 Sat
Guest
Janice Bailey is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The families of the Champagne Music Makers appear in this Christmas program.
Also guitarist Buddy Merrill, on furlough from the Army, is a guest.
Aladdin recites "The Night Before Christmas".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pWirwHK6m4

5.17 [231] The Lawrence Welk Show
26Dec1959 Sat
New Year's Celebration
Guest
Margie Rayburn is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon duet on "What Are You Doing New Year's?"
Maurice Pearson sings "Beautiful Lady".
Lawrence Welk takes to the dance floor with partner Peggy Lennon.

5.18 [232] The Lawrence Welk Show
02Jan1960 Sat [Miami Herald]
Highlights:
Aladdin leads the group in a production number doing
the novelty tune "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife".
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon duet on "Too Marvelous for Words".

5.19 [233] The Lawrence Welk Show
09Jan1960 Sat [Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph]
Guest
Julie Hand is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Maurice Pearson and Peggy Lennon duet on "Cherry Blossom Lullaby".
Larry Hooper and fellow members of the band sing "Hallelujah"

5.20 [234] The Lawrence Welk Show
16Jan1960 Sat [Baltimore Sun]
Featured Dick Dale, Jo Ann Castle, Maurice Pearson,
the Lennon Sisters and the Glee Club.
Guest
Denise Foster is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Bob Lido and Aladdin perform the Italian novelty song "My Cucuzza". (Mi Cucusa)

5.21 [235] The Lawrence Welk Show
23Jan1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Guest
Denise Foster returns as the guest Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Bob Lido and Aladdin team up for the novelty tune "Song and Dance Man".

5.22 [236] The Lawrence Welk Show
30Jan1960 Sat [Deseret News]
Guest
Jean Sampson is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Tonight's production number is "Town and Country Polka"
with Rocky Rockwell and Janet Lennon.
The Lennon Sisters backed up by a quartet Dick Dale, Bob Lido,
Larry Hooper perform "Goodbye My Love, Goodbye".

5.23 [237] The Lawrence Welk Show
06Feb1960 Sat [rerun 09Jul60]
Featured Aladdin, Bob Lido, Maurice Pearson, Larry Hooper
and the Lennon Sisters.
Guest
Louise Vienna is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters sing "Hi Lili, Hi Lo".
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon duet on "Little Things Mean a Lot".

5.24 [238] The Lawrence Welk Show
13Feb1960 Sat
Valentine's Day Show
Guest
Diane Berry is the Champagne Lady.
Featured the Lennon Sisters, Bob Lido, Larry Hooper, Aladdin, Larry Dean,
Maurice Pearson and Alvan Ashby.
Highlights:
Songs include "This Old House" and "My Funny Valentine".

5.25 [239] The Lawrence Welk Show
20Feb1960 Sat
Guest
Marilynn Lovell is the Champagne Lady.
Also appearing are the Lennon Sisters, Aladdin, Dick Dale, Maurice Pearson and Larry Hooper.
Highlights:
Dianne and Janet Lennon duet on "Little Sister".

5.26 [240] The Lawrence Welk Show
27Feb1960 Sat
Guest
Carole Richards is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Larry Hooper sings "With a Little Bit of Luck"
from the Broadway hit "My Fair Lady".

5.27 [241] The Lawrence Welk Show
05Mar1960 Sat
Featured Jo Ann Castle, Larry Hooper and the Lennon Sisters.
Guest
Judy Busch is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:

5.28 [242] The Lawrence Welk Show
12Mar1960 Sat
St. Patrick's Day Salute
Guest
Barbara Allen is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Larry Hooper and a group of singers will retell
the story of "Shamrocks and Shillelaghs".
"McNamara's Band" and "Dear Old Donegal".

5.29 [243] The Lawrence Welk Show
19Mar1960 Sat
Guest
Joan Emard is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Myron Floren and the clarinet section of the orchestra are featured.

Canadian Singers Joan Emard & Maurice Pearson

5.30 [244] The Lawrence Welk Show
26Mar1960 Sat [Daily Record]
Featured the Lennon Sisters, Bob Lido, Larry Hooper and Jim Roberts.
Highlights:
The maestro himself steps out front to render
a medley of "Sleepy Time Gal", "My Blue Heaven" and "Doodle Dee Doo".
Other songs include "Just Because" and "Tales From the Vienna Woods".

5.31 [245] The Lawrence Welk Show
02Apr1960 Sat
Featured Lennon Sisters, Myron Floren and Joe Feeney.
Guest
trumpeter Claude Gordon
Highlights:
Songs, "Lady of Spain" and "L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour".

5.32 [246] The Lawrence Welk Show
09Apr1960 Sat [Bedford Daily]
Guest:
Betty Clooney is the guest Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Lawrence Welk and Myron Floren on the accordion, Neal Levang
on guitar and Frank Scott at the piano will put 40 Dakota fingers to
work on "Johnson Rag". All four performers hail from the Dakotas.
The maestro from Strasburg, Levang from Adams, Scott from Fargo
and Floren from Webster.
*Note: Betty Clooney is the younger sister of Rosemary Clooney
and they started out as a teenage singing team.

5.33 [247] The Lawrence Welk Show
16Apr1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Easter Show
Guest
Lu Ann Simms is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Visions of beautiful ladies and handsome gentlemen decked out in their new Spring finery will be
conjured up when Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon blend voices in the perennial "Easter Parade".
Maurice Pearson sings "It's Easter Time".
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon sing "Easter Parade".

5.34 [248] The Lawrence Welk Show
23Apr1960 Sat [Deseret News]
Guest
Diane Maxwell is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters and Larry Hooper perform "Any Way the Wind Blows".
Bob Lido sings the novelty song "Once a Year Day".
Aladdin does "Josephina, No Leana on the Bell".

5.35 [249] The Lawrence Welk Show
30Apr1960 Sat [The Daily Record]
Mexican Show
Lawrence Welk and His Music Makers along with guest
Sy Zenter are in a fiesta mood with a Latin America medley.
Featured Lennon Sisters, Rocky Rockwell, Larry Dean, Dick Dale,
Aladdin, Jim Roberts, Maurice Pearson and Larry Hooper.
Highlights:
The cast joins in for the production number "Down by the Station".
Songs "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life", "Conchita Papita",
"South of the Border" and "She's Way Up Thar".

5.36 [250] The Lawrence Welk Show
07May1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Mother's Day Show
Featured, Jim Roberts, the Lennon Sisters, Larry Hooper,
Maurice Pearson, Bob Lido and Dick Dale.
Highlights:
In one feature of the program, the audience will join
the music makers in singing "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings".
Songs, "My Mother's Eyes", "Be Kind to Your Parents",
"I Want a Girl" and "Lida Rose".

5.37 [251] The Lawrence Welk Show
14May1960 Sat
Guest
Marilynn Lovell is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Songs include "Down by the Winigar Woiks" and "Lida Rose".

5.38 [252] The Lawrence Welk Show
21May1960 Sat [Miami Herald]
Featured The Lennon Sisters, Maurice Pearson, Larry Hooper and Bob Lido.
Guest
Jeanne McManus is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters and Maurice Pearson with the production number
"There's A Tree in the Meadow".

5.39 [253] The Lawrence Welk Show
28May1960 Sat [Marion Star]
Guest
Jan Wynn is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Kathy Lennon and Maurice Pearson tell the timely
musical story of "Sweethearts of the High School Prom".

5.40 [254] The Lawrence Welk Show
04Jun1960 Sat
Lawrence Welk and the Champagne Music Makers
present tonight's show from the Aragon Ballroom
and Pacific Ocean Park Amusement Center near Los Angeles.
A portion of the program is a waltz contest
with members of the National Smooth Dancers
and Terpischoreans dance groups.
Also appearing are the Lennon Sisters, Larry Dean,
Aladdin, Larry Hooper, Jim Roberts and Rocky Rockwell.
Highlights:
Songs include "By the Sea", "Cotton Candy and a Toy Balloon", "Come, Josephine in My Flying Machine",
"Kewpie Doll", "Minnie the Mermaid", "Tony at POP", "June, July and August" and "Yellow Bird".

5.41 [255] The Lawrence Welk Show
11Jun1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Salute to June Graduates
Highlights:
Welk will devotte words and music in the Salute to Graduates
with the Lennon Sisters, Larry Dean, Dick Dale, Bob Lido and
Maurice Pearson taking part in this production number.
Flag Day (June 14) also will be saluted with the
Glee Club singing "Grand Old Flag".

5.42 [256] The Lawrence Welk Show
18Jun1960 Sat [Times Herald]
Tonight the gang celebrates Father's Day and the start of Welk's sixth year on network television.
Also appearing are Aladdin, Alvan Ashby, Larry Dean, Myron Floren and the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters and their father Bill Lennon sing "The Anniversary Song".
The Glee Club sings "The Whiffenpoof Song".
Aladdin sings "The Shifting Sands".
Larry Dean sings "Oh, Happy Day".
Lawrence Welk and Myron Floren
with an accordion duet on "Twelfth Street Rag"
Also, "Anniversary Waltz", "Stand Up and Sing for Your Father".
https://www.solie.org/alibrary/LawrenceWelkShow_5415thAnniversaryShow.html

5.43 [257] The Lawrence Welk Show
25Jun1960 Sat [Wisconsin State Journal][Daily Record]
Salute to Summer Vacations
Highlights:
The Maestro and his Music Makers with a spirited version
of "On the Boardwalk".
The Instrumentalists do "Highways Are Happy Ways".
Other songs include, "Spring Time in the Rockies",
"Around the World," "Love Letters in the Sand",
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree", "Water of Minnetonka"
"The Pennsylvania Polka" and "Vacation Waltz".

[--] The Lawrence Welk Show
02Jul1960 [repeat from ] [Fort Worth Star]
Lawrence Welk and the Music Makers are on vacation. (week 1)
"American Patrol" featuring Myron Floren, Jo Ann Castle,
Don Bonnee and Bill Page will be an instrumental highlight on the
first of two consecutive repeat broadcasts to be presented.

[--] The Lawrence Welk Show
09Jul1960 [repeat from 06Feb60] [Fort Worth Star]
Lawrence Welk and the Music Makers are on vacation. (week 2)
Louise Vienna is the guest Champagne Lady.
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon duet on "Little Things Mean a Lot".
*Note: TVguide says this is the second and final week of Welk's summer vacation.

5.44 [258] The Lawrence Welk Show
16Jul1960 Sat [Casper Morning Star]
Guest
Patti Lorraine is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Janet Lennon and Rocky Rockwell offer "Take a Tip From the Tulip".
Dick Dale and the Lennon Sisters perform "Sing for Your Father".
Bob Lido and Aladdin strut their stuff in "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Other songs include, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll",
"Apple Blossom Time" and "The Penguin Polka".

5.45 [259] The Lawrence Welk Show
23Jul1960 Sat [Boston Globe]
Guest
Janie Jones is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters sing "We'll Bake a Sunshine Cake".
Dianne Lennon and Larry Dean duet on "I'll Dance at Your Wedding".
Bob Lido and Aladdin perform "Together".

5.46 [260] The Lawrence Welk Show
30Jul1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Guest
Kathy Taylor is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Rock Rockwell sings "That's Where I Met My Girl".
The Lennon Sisters offer "The Siamese Cat Song".
The Welk Quartet singing the praises of "Harriet".
Jo Ann Castle on the honky tonk piano with singers
Joe Feeney and Larry Dean.

5.47 [261] The Lawrence Welk Show
06Aug1960 Sat [Daily Record]
Guest
Julie Mason is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" featuring the dancing of
Jack Imel and the singing of Larry Dean.
Also, "A Pirate's Life".

5.48 [262] The Lawrence Welk Show
13Aug1960 Sat [Salt Lake Tribune]
Guest
Betty Cox is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Lennon Sisters salute baseball with "A Beautiful Day for a Ball Game".
Larry Dean and Dianne Lennon duet on "Small World".

5.49 [263] The Lawrence Welk Show
20Aug1960 Sat [Fort Worth Star]
Guests
Peggy Hayama is the Champagne Lady.
vocalists Kay Hart and Jerry Besta
accordionist Carl Portina
Highlights:
Trumpeter Norman Bailey's 5-year-old daughter Janice,
teamed with Aladdin in a vocal rendition of "Little Lady Make Believe".

5.50 [264] The Lawrence Welk Show
27Aug1960 Sat [Express News]
Guest
Gina Genardi is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Dianne Lennon and Larry Dean team up with
the French song "Mais Oui".
Also, "Lazy Bones".

5.51 [265] The Lawrence Welk Show
03Sep1960 Sat [Boston Globe]
Guest
Patti Clark is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
The Music Makers and Aladdin offer "I Can't Play Every Instrument in the Band".

5.52 [266] The Lawrence Welk Show
10Sep1960 Sat [Times and Democrat]
Guest
Dodie Stevens is the Champagne Lady.
Highlights:
Lawrence Welk salutes his daughter with his latest song "Donna Lee".
His daughter will be married the day after tomorrow.
Maestro Welk anticipates the forthcoming football season with
"Buckle Down, Winssockie" and later leads the
Music Makers into a Dixieland jam session.

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