![]() ![]() "Ruby" is the kind of string-laden, easy listening music most listeners would expect from Welk, but "Save the Last Dance for Me" - performed with what sounds like a harpsichord on lead - returns to rock & roll territory. On Calcutta!, Welk covers a number of recent hits, including "Perfidia" (with electric guitar inspired by the Ventures' single) and "Corrine Corrina" (revived by "Ray Peterson"). Welk, for a time, converged with other instrumental artists like Bill Justis and Billy Vaughn, whose music, too, was often on the periphery of rock & roll. ![]() But Welk's early-'60s Dot albums, with their weirdly generic cover designs and crazy assortments of rock and pop tunes, were often quite good. "Calcutta" might be the least remembered number one hit of the '60s its brisk rhythm, hand claps, wordless chorus, and prominent melody add up to an infectious instrumental, but anything associated with the name Lawrence Welk tends to be dismissed out of hand. ![]()
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