Bobby has traveled as a spokesman for Disneyland across the United States and down to Australia where he was originally quite a matinee idol as a young, teenage Mouseketeer. [9], He married Kristie Floren, the daughter of Welk accordionist Myron Floren on Valentine's Day (February 14), 1971. Bobby Burgess' Original Dance Partner. Bobby says, "My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.". her performances. The two have known each other since childhood; both attended the same dance school where they were first paired together. "tardiness." Bobby is very proud of his lifetime achievement award given him by Dance Masters of America. "Who knew we'd still be singing and dancing together 50 years later!" They have four children. In 1955 he was selected as one of the original Mouseketeers by Walt Disney to appear on his new daily television program The Mickey Mouse Club. Cissy was the best at doing acrobatic lifts. Stahl, Scarlett; August 16, 2014. Burgess called her a few months after their fateful dance and asked her to appear as his guest partner on “The Lawrence Welk Show.” It was February 1967, and Barbara Boylan was taking a quick break from the show to get married. Now, Burgess Cotillion classes receive the benefit of Bobby's lifetime of dancing experience. She was the first of Bobby Burgess's three dancing partners on the show. Bobby Burgess was born on May 19, 1941 in Long Beach, California, USA as Robert Wilkie Burgess. 1979), Wendi Ellen (b. That partnership lasted for twelve years. By the time he turned 11 years old, he had appeared in some 75 television shows in the Los Angeles area. [4] He also guest starred on The Donna Reed Show as a suitor of Mary Stone (Shelley Fabares). An agent saw him and called the station and got him signed. Mar 7, 2012 - Bobby Burgess (right) with dance partner Cissy King and Lawrence Welk, 1969. Bobby and Barbara vied against countless other ballroom couples in competitions waged all over the country, finally scoring a grand coup by being named King and Queen of the national Call's Grand Medal Ball. Over the course of the show's run, Bobby had three dance partners: Barbara Boylan from 1961 to 1967 and was a temporary fill-in for a few shows in 1979, Cissy King from 1967 to 1978, and Elaine Balden from 1979 until the show ended in 1982. Bobby and his three partners kept ballroom dancing alive on television before the days of Dancing with the Stars. He also leads cotillion classes at three middle schools in Palos Verdes, California and instructs the prestigious high school group called the Assembly, also in Palos Verdes. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-01-ca-2223-story.html, https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2014/09/18/an-interview-with-bobby-burgess/, https://www.micechat.com/77564-ear-bubbles-the-story-of-mouseketeer-bobby-burgess/, http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affairs/20140105/about-town-former-mouseketeer-makes-learning-social-graces-fun-at-miraleste-intermediate-cotillion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby_Burgess&oldid=981731993, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, BLP articles lacking sources from March 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 03:26. Corres. Appeared on The Lawrence Welk show as a regular after winning a Dance Partners When Barbara left the Welk show to be married, Bobby found his next wonderful partner, Cissy King, in Albuquerque. ... Bobby Bones, a radio host, and his pro dance partner, Sharna Burgess… As busy as he was filming daily television shows, performing at Disneyland on weekends, and touring the country in live shows, Bobby also found time to begin ballroom dancing. "Every time we recorded a new song, they'd create a special dance routine, and the viewers' reaction was tremendous. During the few years between The Mickey Mouse Club and The Lawrence Welk Show, Bobby graduated magna cum laude from high school, attended Long Beach State University, and made lifelong friends as a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. In 1974, she was honored with the Dance Masters of America award for outstanding contributions to the field of dance. Mouseketeers and Early Career Bobby was a major part of early television through his performances on two of the most famous family-oriented shows: The Lawrence Welk Show and The Mickey Mouse Club.

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