Although the eponymous sisters started off promisingly enough in their own sweetly sentimental musical variety show Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (1969), the pairing of Jimmy Durante and the girls proved too odd a mixture and the show lasted only a season. In 1968, the now adult sister group decided to leave the security of the Welk show (the parting was rather acrimonious) in order to branch out, but found the going extremely difficult as a pristine Camelot-era vocal group caught up in the radical Vietnam-era age.
Dianne retired for marriage in 1960 and the quartet became a Popular were the girls that they became a merchandising factory withĬoloring books, lunch boxes and doll collections all doing very briskīusiness. Dubbed "America's Sweethearts of Song," they recorded theirįirst of many albums entitled "Let's Get Acquainted" in May of 1957. Welk professionally adopted the girls and The Lennon Sisters became regulars on his show every Saturday night for the next thirteen years.
Their a cappella version of "He" proved a scene-stealing success and America fell hard for the four pretty little innocents and their angelic vocal blend. Completely charmed and impressed, Welk booked the girls immediately. In 1955, a friend to Lawrence Welk arranged a meeting and audition between the Lennons and the famous bandleader. Living humbly in Venice, California during their formative years, the Lennon girls' musical prowess was discovered early.
The daughters were four of eleven children born to devout Catholics William, a milkman who also worked for a gold course, and Isabelle ("Sis") Lennon. Twelve-year-old Kathy Lennon and nine-year-old Janet Lennon on board. Sixteen-year-old Dianne Lennon (Dee Dee), fourteen-year-old Peggy Lennon, Making their singing TV debut in the mid-1950's, they became an instant household name on The Lawrence Welk Show (1955), a clean, old-fashioned variety show, with They were a young, wholesome, crisply harmonic quartet of siblings who called
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