My Tribute 

I sure miss The Lawrence Welk Show, and Johnny's fantastic trumpet!

I'm playing this for my 92 year old mom with cancer because she loved you on Lawrence Welk. She watched everyone on the show faithfully since the beginning and then as long as the reruns were on and loved your jazzy songs too. If you ever read this Johnny, thank you for playing this so beautifully and for being a good person.

My favorite...thank you Johnny Zell!!

Inspired me to find and play this work in church, so many years ago. Since then, I've probably played this 1000 times, and every time, I think back to this first night when I heard this work, and to the spiritual and musical inspiration it provided. I got my Bach Bb from Zepp's Music Center the following Christmas, and this song was among the first I played in church! To GOD Be The GLORY!

This is the way you play trumpet. Forget all of the screaming and fast playing. Great video!!!

RIP Johnny Zell.

His breath control is great...... and does anyone else hear shades of "MY WAY" in that song???

Now that put a smile on my face, many more blessings to Johnny Zell and family

One of my favorites Gospel songs. I Have played it a lot of times w/ my trumpet.

great song and the perfect key to play it in. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

Johnny- this is great, smooth and perfect-Thanks!

Beautiful!!!!

super beautiful !!

Beautiful playing!

Please please post Ralna English singing this on the Welk Show, she also knocked it over the fence!!!

LOL.....WHAT A HAM !!

I love the "Welk stance," arm positioning, and over the top valving. PBS viewers eat this junk up.

No Cardi b here true talent back then

The good news is that Johnny Zell was a good trumpet player. The bad news is that he was ALMOST as good as he thought he was. Someone commented awhile back about the standard 'Welk positioning' and the too-structured posture. That was one thing that made Welk's show so bland despite some fine musicians.