[Trombone-l] Lawrence Welk's trombones

[Philip Brink]

All I remember from the Welk show [this was after I achieved a certain
sophistication on bass trombone {huh?}] was that the section [including bass
trombone] used this incredible [overdone] slide vibrato [which seemed to me
to be ordained by Welk himself]... That was the last time [1970-something]
that I even bothered to watch the Welk show... did I miss anything?

My personal favorite was Larry Hooper with his enormous basso voice!

Phil Brink

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Denny Seifried <ddsbstrb at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> When I was a kid growing-up, I used to watch the show, as I always liked
> Pete Fountain, when he was on the show. In the late 1950's I know Pete
> Lofthouse was the original bass trombonist on the show. When he left the
> show Barney Liddell was playing tenor and made the switch to bass trombone.
> I never realized that Kenny Trimble was in the trombone section for the
> entire run of the show. I can remember when Warren Luening, who was very
> young at the time, would be featured on the show, maybe even before he
> joined the trumpet section.
>
> The same thing happened with Kenny Trimble's trombone-playing son, Jim. I
> remember when a very young, Jim Trimble, would be a guest on the show and
> play a duet with his father, Kenny. The next thing I know, I buy one of my
> first Buddy Rich LP's, and there is Jimmy playing lead on the Rich band. He
> was always one of my favorite lead players on that band.
>
> I was really surprised to see that jazz & session bassist, Buddy Clark, was
> also on the Welk-Band for a short period of time. I know Buddy was on some
> of those great Terry Gibbs, recordings, with Mel Lewis, which I own.
>
> Denny Seifried
> Bass Trombone-Springfield (OH) Symphony & Dayton Jazz Orch.
> Adjunct Trombone-Wittenberg Univ. Dept. of Music
> Forum Moderator-The Trombone Forum
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <John.McVey at frb.gov>
> To: "Tony Clements" <ttuba at comcast.net>
> Cc: "List Trombone" <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>;
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> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Lawrence Welk's trombones
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> Hi Tony,
>
> Given that information in Wikipedia should usually be taken with a grain of
> salt, here is a list of all players and singers from 1955 through Welk's
> retirement in 1982 when the show went into syndication.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawrence_Welk_Show
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> John
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> Is there a history somewhere of Welk¹s trombones? And indeed the whole
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> Thanks.
> Tony Clements
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Philip Brink
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College of Music, Mahidol University
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