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1963 recording
Samuel Bailey's audition tape for Lawrence Welk
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January 27, 2022 - 1:06 pm
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I would like to share an audio recording of my grandfather(Thomases great grandfather) playing an audition tape he sent into the Lawrence Welk show back in 1963. Although I have the entire recording, for some reason i was only able to copy a few minutes of the first song, Czardas. He died shortly after this and I never asked my father if anything was even heard back. But he was a sensational violinist. He, too, loved fiddlin' music, with one of his songs(as you can hear my father say at the beginning)was Fiddlin' the Fiddle.

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January 27, 2022 - 1:34 pm
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Really GREAT STORY! 

Would've loved to hear the complete recording.

Thank you for sharing this - love the History. 

Hope the tradition continues. 😊

- Emily

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January 27, 2022 - 3:11 pm
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great playing, agree with Emily would have liked to hear all of it.

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January 27, 2022 - 5:38 pm
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That is so very cool,

Thanks for sharing thus.

 

Mark

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January 27, 2022 - 6:35 pm
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thats a family treasure right there!  Im sure you have several copies made as backups.  Glad you were able to share. 

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Thank you everyone. I thought I had the entire recording swapped over onto a disk but for some reason I cant play it. So I have...believe it or not....the entire recording on a cassette tape, LOL. I am trying to find someone to transfer it over again onto a disc and thumbdrive. 

Jim(Thomases Dad)

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I have several cassettes I wanted to convert to MP3s. I found this inexpensive player that plays the cassette though USB and I recorded using the free Audacity audio editor on my laptop. 

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