Ears & Bubbles: Dancing My Way from The Mickey Mouse Club to The Lawrence Welk Show

Bobby's book is a good read. If you like books about dancing, it is a must read.

I am a Long Beach girl!!! Bobby brings such beautiful memories and great experiences that I was fortunate to have had growing up in the great city of Long Beach! I know Bobby and his lovely family and I can tell you that I have such respect and admiration for Mr. Burgess!I loved this book! I am a Long Beacher (even though I now live behind the Orange Curtain ~O.C.). Long Beach is a very special place if you were fortunate enough to grow up there in the 50's and 60's! Bobby brought back so many great memories of the place I am so fond of and had forgotten over the years! I had the pleasure of meeting Bobby in the late 1980's in which I became involved in his Cotillion. I know his lovely family and wonderful wife Kristie and they are what every family strives to be; good, honest, caring, fun and loving people to each other and all those that are lucky enough to know them!! Bobby Burgess is one of the most genuine people I know, a true gentleman and a great family man that he has made such a fine example for others! His book was a great read; easy to read, hard to put down!! I must say I was so impressed by ALL his fantastic experiences, meeting and performing with such famous stars and it never took away the down to earth mannerisms and genuinely great man Bobby is today!! Bobby's fame never went to his head and he has kept friendships with those he grew up with, those he worked with and is always the same friendly, warm and wonderful man he has been probably all his life!!! If you want to be entertained, laugh and experience a life of integrity, hard work, great family and friends and FUN do yourself a favor and get your copy of Ears & Bubbles!!! The title will make more sense when you read it if you are young and couldn't be a part of an era that was so GRAND and meaningful!!! Experience it through Bobby's book if you were not able to live it yourself or if you did live it but might have forgotten how truly wonderful from 1945 on was for so many!! ENJOY!!! Monica

I go way back as a Bobby Burgess fan: I was a little kid in the early years of his Welk career, and I enjoyed seeing him on Mickey Mouse Club re-runs and then watching him on the Lawrence Welk Show with my family. His memoirs put him on display as a highly entertaining storyteller whose life is an intriguing and amusing tale of being in the right place in the right time--after having done the hard work necessary to take full advantage of a favorable development. This is a man who has truly lived a worthwhile life among interesting people. Unfortunately his editor was not as professional as Bobby. Punctuation errors, misspelled words, and grammatical lapses create unnecessary distraction and detract from the value of the book, which I purchased as a gift. I'd give Bobby seven stars and the editor two.

I very much liked this book because in a very entertaining way, Bobby describes his life from his years with the Walt Disney Mousketeers on television to his later many years performing as a dancer with different dancing partners on the Lawrence Walk television show which went into syndication for many years after the live programs terminated.. He gives many stories and insights about his life as a Mouseketeer and about his transitioning as an adult to a career on the Lawrence Welk show. He tells about his wife and their family and their activities as their family grew. He also tells us what it was like to see and talk briefly for the last time to Walt Disney and Lawrence Welk. Both occasions struck me as being very sad. I found his personal stories about his lasting long-relationships with his fellow Mousketeers moving and took me into thems as though I were present as a close-up observer. He tells stories that fascinated me about his growing up from a youngster very much suported and encouraged in his dancing career by his mother and father to his marriage to the daughter of Myron Floren, the accordianist in the Welk musical group. I enjoyed his stories about his many different experiences with the Mouseketeers and with the Lawrence Welk orchestra. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to anyone wanting an inside look into showbusiness from the viewpoint of a youngster who grew up in the business going from "Ears" -to "Bubbles" and beyond..

I am a 77 year old man who watched The Mickey Mouse Club just about every day back in the 50s. I remember all the Mousekateers and was in love with Darlene! I really enjoyed every page of this book, not only Bobby's extremely interesting life, but also learning about all his Disney friends, Walt Disney himself, and also Lawrence Welk (I still watch his program on PBS) and updates on the Welk performers!I had heard the story that he writes about when he met a lone Walt Disney near Lake Tahoe at the Devil's Postpile National Monument. By happenstance, the two were the only ones there! Burgess writes that they greeted each other, said a few words, and walked on. Walt died a few months later!

My reason for purchasing this was to learn more about Annette Funicello and the Lennon Sisters. However, there wasn't any information that I didn't already know. While Bobby is very flattering about all of them he really doesn't spend many pages talking about them. I can understand that because this is his story. Most of the book is about his dancing, his different dance partners, touring, his dance school and his family. He seems like a very nice sincere guy. Very positive. What makes it interesting for me is that he grew up and works in Long Beach, California. I was born and raised in Long Beach and many of the places that he talks about are places I have frequented. You will finish reading this book with a smile on your face.