#LAWRENCE WELK CAST FEMALE SINGERS SERIES#
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Their talent notwithstanding, they became a hard act to book with a repertoire of songs that included 'My Favorite Things,' 'Getting to Know You' and 'Zip A Dee-Doo-Dah.' They were plainly out of sync. In the early 70s, The Lennon Sisters became frequent guests on The Andy Williams Show (1962) and subsequently performed with the singing star in Las Vegas on a fairly steady basis.

#LAWRENCE WELK CAST FEMALE SINGERS SERIES#

Personal tragedy hit in the midst of shooting the series when, on August 12, 1969, their father, William, was shot and killed by a deranged fan of Peggy's at the Venice golf course where he still worked. Although the eponymous sisters started off promisingly enough in their own sweetly sentimental musical variety show Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (1969), the pairing of Jimmy Durante and the girls proved too odd a mixture and the show lasted only a season. In 1968, the now adult sister group decided to leave the security of the Welk show (the parting was rather acrimonious) in order to branch out, but found the going extremely difficult as a pristine Camelot-era vocal group caught up in the radical Vietnam-era age. Dianne retired for marriage in 1960 and the quartet became a trio until Diane's return in 1964. So popular were the girls that they became a merchandising factory with coloring books, lunch boxes and doll collections all doing very brisk business. Welk professionally adopted the girls and The Lennon Sisters became regulars on his show every Saturday night for the next thirteen years.Дubbed 'America's Sweethearts of Song,' they recorded their first of many albums entitled 'Let's Get Acquainted' in May of 1957. Their a cappella version of 'He' proved a scene-stealing success and America fell hard for the four pretty little innocents and their angelic vocal blend. Completely charmed and impressed, Welk booked the girls immediately. In 1955, a friend to Lawrence Welk arranged a meeting and audition between the Lennons and the famous bandleader. Living humbly in Venice, California during their formative years, the Lennon girls' musical prowess was discovered early.

The daughters were four of eleven children born to devout Catholics William, a milkman who also worked for a gold course, and Isabelle ('Sis') Lennon.

#LAWRENCE WELK CAST FEMALE SINGERS TV#

Making their singing TV debut in the mid-1950's, they became an instant household name on The Lawrence Welk Show (1955), a clean, old-fashioned variety show, with sixteen-year-old Dianne Lennon (Dee Dee), fourteen-year-old Peggy Lennon, twelve-year-old Kathy Lennon and nine-year-old Janet Lennon on board. They were a young, wholesome, crisply harmonic quartet of siblings who called themselves simply The Lennon Sisters.

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