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78 RPM Record

Artist:Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music
Label:  Coral
Country:Canada
Catalogue:60893
Date:Dec 1952
Format:10"
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Community: 2 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
ALawrence Welk And His Champagne MusicOh Happy DayDon Howard KoplowRate
BLawrence Welk And His Champagne MusicYour Mother And MineSammy Fain, Sammy CahnRate


Notes

A side vocal: Larry Hooper.
B side vocal: Roberta Linn.

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mojofilter
17th Jan 2013
 Review
The original, horribly pedestrian recording of "Oh Happy Day" by Don Howard (omitting his surname), accompanied only by his barely-competent skills on acoustic guitar, is on YouTube. On the page, you can read the story of how it came to be recorded, and how, despite his name and photo being on the sheet music, it wasn't actually written by Koplow in the first place. The 17-year-old learned it from his girlfriend, who learned it from the woman who wrote it, Nancy Binns Reed, who played the song for her charges when she was a leader at the summer camp that Koplow's girlfriend had attended some years previous. In the accompanying YouTube video, a newspaper clipping is shown of an article about the record, in which a local DJ hated it so much, he recommended playing the 45 at 78. Nonetheless, it became a local hit that picked up national distribution, and that's how it came to the attention of Lawrence Welk.

The song is given a classy treatment here by the Welk band, who with basso Larry Hooper turn it into a proper hit record. I believe this was Hooper's recording debut, and he sounds so nervous, you can hear him trembling. "Oh Happy Day" would become his signature song.

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