“Mancini - Mercer”
Guest: Bobby Burgess
Original Air Date: November 10, 1973
This week’s Lawrence
Welk Show from 1973 salutes songwriters Henry Mancini
and Johnny Mercer.
The show unfolds with dancers Bobby and Cissy and the
Orchestra performing
“Goody, Goody.” Ken Delo sings “Fools Rush In,” and
the whole cast
gets together in the “Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.”
01 – Goody, Goody - orchestra intro., danced by Bobby Burgess and Cissy King
02 – Days of Wine and Roses - orchestra, featuring guest Henry Mancini on piano
03 – All His Children - Guy Hovis and Ralna English
04 – Dearly Beloved - Norma Zimmer
05 – Jeepers Creepers - danced by Arthur Duncan
06 – Dream - Sandi
Griffiths, with Dick, Cissy, Norma, Charlie, Gail, Curt,
with Bob Ralston on organ, Buddy Merrill and Neil Levang
on guitars, Richard Maloof on bass, and featuring Russ Klein
on saxophone
07 – Charade - Myron Floren on accordion
08 – You Must Have
Been a Beautiful Baby - Larry Hooper and Gail Farrell,
both singing and playing piano
09 – That Old Black Magic - orchestra
10 – Dear Heart - Jimmy Roberts
11 – Fools Rush In - Ken Delo
12 – Theme from “Laura” - orchestra
13 – Send a Little
Love My Way (from “Oklahoma Crude”) - Norma, Gail,
Tanya, Sandi, Anacani, Ralna, danced by
Bobby Burgess, Cissy King, Jack Imel and
Mary Lou Metzger, with Neil Levang on banjo,
Myron Floren on accordion and Richard
Maloof on tuba
14 – Hey, Porter
- Clay Hart, also on guitar, with Buddy Merrill and Neil Levang
on electric guitars
15 – Moon River - Joe Feeney, with Bob Ralston on organ
16 – Blues in the
Night - Henry Cuesta on clarinet, Bob Havens on trombone,
Johnny Zell - on trumpet, Dick Dale on saxophone
and the rhythm section
17 – Sweetheart
Tree - Gail, Mary Lou, Ralna, Sandi, Norma, Ken, Jimmy,
Guy, Joe, danced by Bobby and Cissy, with Henry
Mancini at the player piano
18 – Accentuate the Positive - Anacani and Tanya Falan
19 – In the Cool,
Cool, Cool of the Evening - Arthur, Mary Lou, Ken, Cissy,
Bobby, Tanya, Dick, Sandi, Larry,
Anacani, Ralna, Guy, Gail, Norma,
Jimmy, Joe