Customer Reviews

Upstairs at Larry's: Lawrence Welk Uncorked

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I'm a huge Lawrence Welk fan and was somewhat apprehensive upon ordering this cd. I did not want in anyway the delightful sounds of Lawrence Welk to be comprimised. But to my surprise, techno music incorporated with the Bubbly Sounds takes Lawrence Welk to a higher level.

Who ever thought that Lawrence Welk could be anything but "old school cool?" With a revamped and remixed image from some of the best DJ's around Lawrence Welk has been re-invented and club kids and hipsters allover will soon be sipping champagnes and grooving to Lawrence Welk. With songs like "You are My Sunshine" and "Baby Elephant Walk" backed by thumping beats and mellow grooves like "Caravan" this album would be a perfect fit at any trendy club or trendy lounge type bar. It is best listened to the whole way through because the album is so wonderfully constructed song by song it takes you on a journey that comes full circle. All in all an fabulously fun and clever album.

It's the most amazing thing I've heard since Erasure and the Pet Shop Boys!!!! Who would have believed that the bubbling sounds of the Welk orchestra would sail into the new century with a hit CD playing in dance bars, cocktail lounges and livng rooms? I've always enjoyed Welk. I was a kid when CALCUTTA, YELLOW BIRD, RUNAWAY, MY THREE SONS, LAST DATE, SCARLETT O'HARA and BABY ELEPHANT WALK were in the Billboard charts....being played on Top 40 stations. In fact, BABY ELEPHANT WALK was No. 1 in Oklahoma City and 50,000 watt Top 40 giant KOMA played the number 1 song for 24 hours straight 1 day per week. Those recordings were not even close to "Champagne Music" or "Ah 1 and Ah 2".
BABY ELEPHANT WALK was my favorite Lawrence Welk single and to hear it in two different remixes on this CD is a real treat.
The biggest surprise was Guy and Ralna's recording of YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE. Imagine Jimmy Davis in his heavenly home looking down on dancers stomping to his signature tune.
You don't even have to have heard of Lawrence Welk to love this cd!
One of 2004's best releases.

I never heard Lawerence at my house since "hee haw" showed at the same time each saturday, so I don't know some of the origins of these songs, but I do know that whomever crafted these modernistic views of their cheesy classics have me perking up and appreciating this compilation. Being a ballroom dancer by trade, I love this cd for what it makes of a very hypersynthetic factoid of those people who lived near my family growing up and never used their living room and never got down home to play with the country folk. I grew up with country and shuned it as a child, thinking that there were better sounds with the top 40. Then as I grew up, I realized through the ballroom industry that I was missing something and this cd has a wonderful way of depicting the synthetic fakeness of the plastic set of the sixties and early seventies. I love the chill sound of these modern technological means and even if you never heard the sounds of the "welk" family, you will love the sheer 'lounge' of the new versions. I thought that I would buy this cd for a childhood friend of mine for she grew up with that plasticity, deciding that I wanted to keep it for myself. If you are a lover of silly songs done with a very modern take, then you might want to keep this one too. It is a lounge/ chill classic.

I'm not quite sure I want to know what is going on Upstairs at Larry's but if he's having half as much fun as we did last night, then he must be a happy man this morning...I picked up a copy of this CD based upon the recommendation of a good friend for a mixer at the house last night and everyone loved it! (of course the flowing Kristal might have helped)...at one point we were all doing the Baby Elephant Walk and then broke out into a loud boisterous singalong of You Are My Sunshine...oh, my rolling eyeballs...who says you can't get jiggy to Lawrence Welk. This CD and the Junior Jack 'Trust' CD are a must have!!!

I remember having to watch Lawrence Welk with my granparents, and counting the seconds until we could change the station. With that being said I saw this cd and thought that I would buy it for when my parents come to visit and I could make them suffer like I used to.

Turns out I really like the music, the songs themself are strong and take you back to a happier time. Throw in the remixes and it is like walking into a hip bar. If I never knew these songs were on the original show, I would immediatly take a liking to them. I have listened to the cd now several times and have not fast forwarded any song. It was like discovering new music!!!!

The reason for the 4 stars is by the end of the cd you start to notice the mix / beat more than the original song, it is almost a bit of an overkill.

A great complication of Welk's music remixed for a newer generation. I originally heard 'Bubbles in the Wine'
(Dex Dubious) on WXPN in Philly a few years back and a few other selections from the album over the
last few years.

If you are into remixes, and diverse music, you'll really enjoy this album. Also the album is rootkit free, so it
will play on any any CD player.

This CD is such a cool renewal of Lawrence Welk, I can't say enough positive things about it. There is wit and style in this CD. It brings a smile to my face just thinking about it. Try it.