"Mother's Day Show"
Host: Mary Lou Metzger

Original Air Date:  May 12, 1956

 

 

"I Want a Girl" - orchestra

"I Got Lost in His Arms" - Alice Lon

" Melody in F (Welcome Sweet Springtime)" - orchestra

" Pal of My Cradle Days" - Jimmy Roberts

"Saturday Night Waltz" - Myron Floren on accordion

"Blue Suede Shoes" - Buddy Merrill on electric guitar

"Kentucky Babe" - The Lennon Sisters

"Moritat (Mack the Knife)" - Jerry Burke and Larry Hooper on pianos

"Grandfather’s Clock" - Larry Hooper

"Ballin’ the Jack" - orchestra

"Chihuahua Polka" - orchestra, danced by Lawrence Welk and Alice Lon

"Can You Find it in Your Heart"- Larry Dean

Medley:  Bye Bye Blackbird/ Bill Bailey/ Four Leaf Clover - Big Tiny Little on ragtime piano

"Shifting Whispering Sands" - Aladdin, with the Lennon Sisters

"Rock Island Line" - Bob Lido

"When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver" - Dick Kesner on violin, with violinists Bob Lido and Aladdin

"I’ve Got the World on a String" - guest Donna Bailey, with husband Norman bailey on trumpet

Medley:  That Wonderful Mother of Mine/ Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Lawrence Welk on the organ

"The Birds and the Bees" - Alice Lon and Buddy Hayes

"When I Take My Sugar to Tea" - Rocky Rockwell (also on trumpet), with a comedy assist by Curt Ramsey

"Chicago" - orchestra