Lawrence Welk Exotica???

O-o-o-o-o-ka-a-a-a-y.... well I wasn't too convinced, but this was in a batch I ended up getting at one of the thrift stores in bulk, and I was really really really hesitant to play the damn thing.

But I did.

Wow.

Aside from the incessant scratcher, this AIN'T HALF BAD. George takes some of the Tiki Standards and merrily screws with them ("Now Is The Hour" in 3/4 time?? "Hawaiian War Chant" as a cha-cha??). One of the featured players is Buddy Cole on the Novachord ("...sometimes as a string section, other times as part of the percussion effect..."), and the lead female vocal is none other than (are you sitting down?) Norma Zimmer. Yes, THAT Norma Zimmer your grandpappy had the hots for every time Larry fired up the bubble machine. Another notable player is Alvino Rey on one of the steel guitars (no spoken stuff this outing though), and Milt Holland "in the percussion section".

The pressing is on Dot from some time in the early 60s, and it is quite clean. I didn't have to doink with the noise reduction too awful much, and, as usual, this is encoded in Fraunhoffer 320/44 true stereo MP3.

So, there you have it. I am gonna do the rar archive thing again, so download this little surprise here!

Again, my apologies for no scans, the kids still have the damn digital camera (something about Barbie, Godzilla, and the Kitten from Hell).