Thursday, April 17, 2008

Joe Feeney, R.I.P.




It was reported by family members that former long-time regular on The Lawrence Welk Show, Nebraska-born Irish tenor Joe Feeney passed away this past Wednesday at age 76.

Joe was a regular on the Welk show from 1957 until 1982, when Lawrence pulled the plug on the show. The top vidcap was from September 5, 1959, the middle vidcap was from February 22, 1964, and the one in color, with pianist Frank Scott, was from the October 23, 1965 show.

My mom always enjoyed listening to Joe singing on the Welk show.


You can find a tribute to Joe at:

http://welknotes.com/joefeeneytribute.htm

2 comments:

Judy said...

One of our members on an internet Lawrence Welk group that I moderate sent the url to your page mentioning Joe Feeney's passing. Thank you for remembering him. We have put up a Tribute at:
http://www.welknotes.com/joefeeneytribute.htm
Turn your sound up.

Bob said...

Thank you very much, Judy.