I watch these all the time. Daly was an utterly brilliant man and the perfect choice as show moderator.

I had always assumed, until I googled him, that he was from Europe. Even though he was born in the US, Lawrence welk didn't learn to speak English until he was in his 20's. Fascinating men and fascinating story.

I am black and I loved Lawrence Welk and his show! I'm from the 'hood and that's saying a whole lot! I found the show when I was young and watched it into syndication. Don't tell my guys.

The Lawrence Welk show was my grandmother's favorite program. Lots of memories watching it with her.

The young perfume sniffer, Howard Kennedy, ended up with a wonderful career in the perfume industry. According to his bio, "His extensive perfume work for the company (Revlon) resulted in five FiFi Award wins for Fragrance of the Year. His winning fragrances were Iron, Lady Stetson, Stetson for Men, Sophia and Nuance. Two of these, Stetson and Sophia)" -- it's fun to see his humble beginnings here!

I discovered WML around the time the pandemic hit. This lovely sweet show has gotten me thru these very tough times. Every evening I escape to another time, another era...when people were well-mannered and always civil to one another. Oh, that our days would once again be such.

When I was 7 or 8 I thought Lawrence Welk was just for old people now I watch his reruns.

I may have said it before, but maaannn.. just listen to that applause for Welk. A Star.. who had his act together!

Mr. Welk was a perfect gentleman and tremendous entertainer and orchestra leader!!!!;

I loved watching "The Lawrence Welk Show" every Saturday night in the 1970s. Lawrence Welk never finished school beyond the 3rd grade. Lawrence Welk actually directed the band on several occasions. He also danced with some of the female members of his musical 🎼 family and he danced with some female members of the audience. He chose a lot of extremely talented singers, dancers, and musicians for his show. He was an extremely humble person on the show and in real life. No musical show has been better than "The Lawrence Welk Show." It was on the air for over 20 years. I really miss that show and watching Lawrence Welk.

A true gentleman in the business, Lawrence Welk exemplified grace, modesty, and talent. He was a man who defined a long-lost generation of lovers of real music... we haven't seen the likes of him since his passing, and aren't likely to.

And- a one and- a two🤣. I just couldn't resist. Love Lawrence Welk.

Brings back lots of memories of my Dad preparing his Sunday School lesson while watching the Lawrence Welk show.

Lawrence Welk was and is still popular in my home county, San Diego. North of Escondido is a place originally called Lawrence Welk Village, where his music style is still performed. He lived there off and on in a palatial "cottage" which also has a couple of golf courses (Welk loved golf).

Phyllis Newman was such a cutie. So sorry we lost her last year.

I grew up on Lawrence Welk, every Saturday night with homemade pizza! Sweet memories. ❤️

Well-liked man. Show more popular now than when aired.

My dad never missed the Lawrence WelkShow even when I was a child.I watched that show as a teenager and liked the songs, bright colors, and the voices of the Lennon sisters sang well.

My mother love that show (LW) so much that she had us watching it every single week, she got a special joy out of watching a guy do his tap dance -- the guy would go all out in his performance. To this day I know how to say good night in multiple languages because of that show

Keep a song in your heart ❤️

Unless I'm mistaken, this was the first appearance of Robert Q. Lewis in quite a long time. I'm glad to see that he got back at least once more before the series ended.

I met Lawrence Welk briefly at a book signing in 1974. He was exactly the same sweet, gentle man seen in this mystery guest appearance. This is one of the most genuine, honest portrayals of Mr. Welk that I have ever seen. Whether or not Bennett Cerf's wife continued watching Lawrence's show, we don't know, but it was cancelled by ABC in 1971 and went into syndication thereafter on "the Lawrence Welk network". LW also appeared in the syndicated version of WML, I believe with host Larry Blyden.

Lawrence Welk had a long history of playing concerts in the Midwest before he ever made it to TV. This is a delightful story from the old days; I laughed so much at this when I first read it: "Mr. Welk knows personally many of the Nebraska farmers who attend his dances. Once he was driving from Des Moines to Norfolk, Neb., pointing out to his vocalist, Joan Mowery, the homes and farms of his acquaintances. Finally, at Hooper, Neb., Joan said, 'Listen, Lawrence, why don't you stop kidding us? You don't really know all these people.' 'I don't, eh?' he said, and swung the car into the next farm. 'It happened to belong to my friend Harry Kerstein,' Welk recalls. 'He was in his overalls, milking a cow. He said, 'Lawrence, you and your friends have got to stay for breakfast.' We stayed for dinner too, and had a typical Nebraska meal, with four kinds of meat and six kinds of vegetables and three kinds of bread. The people with me couldn't move afterwards. When we finally left I continued calling off the names of people who lived along the way. And you know, Joan never said another word about it.'" (The Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine, July 13, 1947)

I grew up with the Lawrence Welk Show. Wonderful memories watching with my grandparents.🎶♥️🎶

Back when life was a little gentler.

"Oh--We just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Lawrence Welk and EVERYTHING he and his music represent!! More please!! MUCH MUCH MORE!! We will cherish this music FOREVER!!" -Black people and ALL minority races

Oh, and by fortunate coincidence, today is the birthday of Lawrence Welk!

My Grandparents told us that during the 20's and thirties they danced to the music of Lawrence Welk at the Normana Hall(Sons of Norway) in Everett Washington, He and his band made a regular circuit of the Normana halls when they were first starting out. I grew up listening to his show at my grandparents and my folks were fans. In an example of early childhood tv exposure leading to life long patterns, the first time i flunked the iron test when donating blood, My first and only thought was to rush out and get some Geritol for my iron poor blood. I never realized how deeply i had been programmed by watching all those years of bubble music.

That was indeed a hearty ovation Lawrence Welk received. When I was in college (early 70s) I took a class in ballroom dancing, and the teacher frequently used his records, as they were very easy to dance to. Then my vocal music teacher gave me an old album from the Lawrence Welk TV show, featuring a 1957 Dodge on the back. Songs included Champagne Time, Bubbles In the Wine, and a lively rendition of the Clarinet Polka played on the accordian by Myron Floren. If I had a phonograph, I'd pay good money for a copy of that album.

I loved watching this show as a kid and enjoy it all over again.

I remember watching Lawrence Welk with my Grandfather.

"They're pyjamas, not pants!" A comment that initially made me confused, but after a trip to Wikipedia, I've learnt something new today.

Lawrence Welk. Still in syndication on PBS...... I once saw a parody commercial in the early 80's where the spokesman who was mimicking him said 'Tank you, tank you. If you bought a VHS tape of every Lawrence Welk show it would cost you more than $ 200,000!!!!! '. Could very well be . He certainly was the longtime Saturday night TV main attraction for the older set who never missed him. He became an American institution.

When I was a child I would turn the knob on the tv set the other, long way around to avoid even a second of Lawrence Welk. He was the head statesman of uncool. I would listen to the radio (EGADS!) at night rather than Lawrence Welk. But, now, as I sink down into my dotage, I like him and can listen to his music. I guess it's time one of you lil' fellers applied the resuscitation to me. Lord, lord, lord. Life support here I come!

OMG, I'd "have" to sit and watch the LW show with my grandmother. Hated it. What I wouldn't give to sit through another one with her now!!

This is a later WML than I'm used to. John Daly is looking older but still dapper. The women now have the bee hive hair do.

We watched his show every week. Loved it ❤️

Bennett Cerf was my favorite panelist on this show!

Phyllis pajama pants suit and Arlene's gown must have been eyes full collectively in color.

What a delight to see such professional friendship among talented, 20th century folks instead of the 21th century, professional back-stabbing by 21th century, untalented nobodies. The NOTHING people WE lived through the best! You are welcome to the rest. Much good may it.do you!

Wunnerful, wunnerful!

Last Days of Grace, culture, elegance in dress and care in appearance= respect for the audience and panelist. Such a Gentleman as Lawrence Welk will probably be only in our dreams.

Everyone loved Lawrence Welk, my grandparents would never miss his show, so schmaltsy

An aside -- I have two degrees of separation between Welk and me. I taught the son of Welk vocalist Sandi Jensen Griffith in one of my 1990s college composition courses at what evolved into U V U, Orem Utah.

I remember seeing this episode when it originally aired. I also remember seeing Lawrence Welk as a mystery guest a few years later on the syndicated WML.

Q could play the game as the second game illustrates -- in reverse. Q also substituted enough times for Bud Collyer on "To Tell the Truth" that it is noticeable in the Wikipedia TTTT lists.

Arlene Francis was 59 years old, when this What's My Line episode aired -- she looks great.

Why did it take so long for Lawrence Welk to appear on the program? He was one of the biggest TV stars of the Golden Age of Television, and of the elderly TV audience. So surely, he could have found the time to make an appearance on WML.

Coincidentally, both Welk and WML would later follow their very successful network runs with long-running syndicated versions.

I'm sad that Lawrence Welk didn't make little bubble drawings when he signed in. More bubble drawings!

I always enjoyed the Lawrence Welk show & never met him but I played Dixieland Jazz Music with several of his key members to incl, Pete Fountain, Peanuts Hucko, Peewee Irby, Al Hurt, & I was a stdt at University of Miss, "Ole Miss", at same time w/Guy Hovis. Lawrence Well was a great host & musician as we're his 75 piece orchestra & singing staff There may never be another band like Welks. Joe G. Bowen. Miss Gulf Coast. Riviera of the south

I had no idea who Phyllis Newman is, but she looks really good.

Lawrence Welk. Speechless. I have wanted to see this episode for years, especially when I found out from W G W that the episode was somehow not lost. Welk, I hear, started on radio back in the 30s and on a local Los Angeles TV station in 1951. Both Welk's show and WML started as mid season / summer replacement programs that did great in the ratings. In the 1950s, Welk's audience was big and wide demographically. By the late 1960s his audience evolved to the older. In 1971, ABC-TV cancelled his program on the issue of his older demographic. Welk followed G-T's lead with WML and its supposedly older demographic and created a syndication network of his own. Very soon he was on more stations than in the entire ABC Network. Syndicated Welk lasted from 1971 to 1982, with specials from 1983 - 1985. Then off to PBS went his collection. I don't know how much of the Welk Archive survived the years, but there was a lot of it -- and it went to color in 1965 early in ABC color TV history.

I want to be the first to say that by an extraordinary and extremely felicitous coincidence, this video has been made public here on the birthday of Lawrence Welk!

Just love the panel when they learn the “lines” They smile and laugh.

My Mom loved the Lawrence Welk show never missing an episode ...fond memories

Maybe it's because I'm from ND & grew up watching the Lawrence Welk Show but, I would've recognized him by his yes & no sounds.

🤍WAS SO CURIOUS TO SEE, LAWRENCE WELK, ON THE PROGRAM. HE WAS A GREAT PROMOTER, BESIDES EVERYTHING ELSE HE DID🍂

I love these old black-n-white shows!

Thank you for uploading this! I've been wanting to see this episode for awhile now. I've been a fan of Mr. Welk's since I was a baby (20, you can do the math), and this is just a treat to watch.

Welk had a great smile. Parents fave program.

Wonderful Lawrence Welk and Walt Disney every Sunday night. The good old days.

My parents favorite show. Mr. Welk has a wonderful smile. Should have spent some champagne music money to fix his grill.

It's bittersweet watching these shows since most of those folks are long gone now.

Daly looks even more sad saying goodbye thwn he did last week!

Gotta luv Lawrence !

Sweet! This aired the day before my 10th birthday!

Lawrence's "keep listening" comment made me wonder... the 1966-1967 season winding up (days away to reruns) was in a tie as 10th most popular but 1967-1968 season dropped to 17th for easy to assume the popularity had been waning for some weeks prior to this May 28th air date. but wasn't canceled until Apr 17, 1982 last airing (15 y later)

The return of the Q

My great aunt loved Lawrence Welk. ♥️

When I was a little fellow, I watched this show on Saturday nights with my grandparents. When the show when to color and then from live to video tape, they prerecorded the singers and skits, so most of them lipsinked their music and speaking parts. It annoyed me that it wasnt live and they couldnt keep up with the recordings, so they were not in sink with their recordings. I think it was better when it was all live performances. Sorry the show is gone. I havent seen it in years. If Lawrence Welk was born in North Dakota, why did he speak with an accent. I thought he was from Canada and had a French Canadian accent. It was all nice while it lasted.

Lucille Ball about Welk [after he appeared on her show]: "Well, he's not too bright"...lol

Revlon sponsored some of the late 1950s game shows that were embroiled in the quiz show scandals. And they sponsored big time Miss America in the 1950s and 1960s.

Lawrence Welk gets in a good jab! But you can tell they are getting nostalgic about the shows cancellation.

Lawrence Welk. What a nice man.

Lawrence Welk had twin daughters..He named them: Anna 1....Anna 2

I lived in Pendleton Oregon for years where the lady weight lefter was from

Once again Bennett Cerf "guesses" the mystery guest. As he admitted in November 1966, his wife, Phyllis, was told the name. We are expected to believe she only slipped up once.

Lawrence Welk's license plate read; A1 AN A2. My grandparents always watched him, but I must admit that, being a teenager back then, I was not a fan of champagne music.

Why did Mr. Daly start saying, “sign in after you’ve entered please.” What happened to his spirited, “Enter and SIGN IN PLEASE!”

Some that I don't think were ever on, Frank Nelson (JACK BENNY and Lucille Ball radio/TV), Billy De Wolfe (DORIS DAY, THAT GIRL, FROSTY HE SNOWMAN., GOOD MORNING WORLD,, the first one, with Bing Crosby DIXIE, the two with Doris Day LULLABYE OF BROADWAY & TEA FOR TWO), Fred Waring (many records/radio shows, FRED WARING SHOW,etc.)

God i love those beehive hairdos!

I have been watching the 1950's episodes and suddenly this came on autoplay and I wondered why everyone looked so much older, seems this is 1967, 10+ years on, yikes, the picture quality looks the same as 1955 so I assumed it was still the mid 50s.

Bennett Cerf is back!

Phyllis Newman was before her time, the college kids wear pajamas outside now.

I just looked up Lawrence Welk. Turns out both his parents were German. Growing up, my mom always said he was Scandinavian. Nope. German. She also always said Mama Cass died from choking on some food. Nope. She died of heart problems. No food found in her throat.

Bennett Cerf aged well

The moderator is really great!

That's how out of it RQ Lewis was. Even from a polite audience, I doubt President Johnson would have gotten an ovation of great acclaim in May of 1967. Maybe his little brother Dinky, but not Lyndon. It would have been polite, but not a Kennedy style screamfest. Remember the war in Vietnam was becoming very unpopular (and NYC was hardly hard hat land) and riots and general discombobulation in the country was roaring.

That sounds like Johnny Olson as the announcer.

Phylis has the cutest laugh.🙂🙂🙂🙂

There are certain myth's about Welk's music and musical style that persist even though they have no basis in fact. Old person's music from 1965 to 1982 it was not -- necessarily. In 1960, Welk's orchestra recorded "Calcutta" which actually was a hit that demonstrated to Welk at least that good music and something with a reasonably contemporary sort of beat were compatible. Certainly in syndication Welk's orchestra played contemporary music but not what could be called this season contemporary. A few months later, Welk hired for a year a person that became a star of contemporary country music -- Lynn Anderson.

Whenever Phyllis Newman laughs, she sounds like she's going to huck out a lung or something. Such a sharp contrast to the refined elegance that is our most beloved Arlene Francis.

Love the dress Mrs. Thorne's wearing

I was 10 when this aired. I always thought Phyllis Newman was hot. Note her hairdo compared to the earlier episodes in the 50’s and early 60’s.

Mr. Kennedy was one of very few black guests who was on the show merely for his line, as opposed to being a celebrity mystery guest.

Johnny O was right in 1967 a lot of things were going better with coke.

Tammy had quite the hairdo! 😜

John Daily is starting to age very rapidly..

Both John Charles Daly and Arlene Francis look hungover