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American bandleader and TV impresario (1903–1992)

Lawrence Welk
Welk with Norma Zimmer in 1961
Born	(1903-03-11)March 11, 1903 Strasburg, Due north Dakota, U.S.
Died	May 17, 1992(1992-05-17) (anile 89) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Alma mater	MacPhail Middle for Music
Occupation	Accordionist bandleader goggle box impresario
Spouse(s)	Fern Veronica Renner (yard. 1931–1992; his death)
Children	3

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to exist known to his large audition of radio, television, and live-functioning fans (and critics) as "champagne music".^[1]

Early life [edit]

Welk was born in the German-speaking community of Strasburg, North Dakota.^[two] He was sixth of the 8 children of Ludwig and Christiana (née Schwahn) Welk, Roman Catholic ethnic Germans who emigrated in 1892 from Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine).^{[3] [4]}

Welk was a first cousin, once removed, of sometime Montana governor Brian Schweitzer (Welk's female parent and Schweitzer's paternal grandmother were siblings).^[v] Welk's paternal great-great-grandparents, Moritz and Magdalena Welk, emigrated in 1808 from Germanophone Alsace-Lorraine to Ukraine.^{[half dozen]}

The family lived on a homestead that is now a tourist allure. They spent the cold N Dakota winter of their start year inside an upturned carriage covered in sod. Welk left schoolhouse during fourth course to work total-time on the family subcontract.^{[iii] [7]}

Welk decided on a career in music and persuaded his begetter to purchase a mail-gild accordion for $400 (equivalent to $5,167 in 2020)^{[8] [9]} He promised his father that he would work on the farm until he was 21, in repayment for the piano accordion. Any money he made elsewhere during that time, doing farmwork or performing, would go to his family.^[ten]

Welk did not acquire to speak English until he was twenty-one and never felt comfortable speaking it in public.^[eleven] Welk became an iconic figure in the German-Russian customs of the northern Dandy Plains—his success story personified the American dream.^[12]

Early career [edit]

On his 21st altogether, having fulfilled his hope to his male parent, Welk left the family subcontract to pursue a career in music. During the 1920s, he performed with various bands before forming an orchestra. He led big bands in North Dakota and eastern South Dakota, including the Hotsy Totsy Boys and the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra.^[thirteen] His band was also the station band for the popular radio programming WNAX in Yankton, South Dakota. The Lawrence Welk Orchestra scored an immediate success and began a daily radio show, which lasted from 1927 to 1936. The radio show led to many well-paying engagements for the band throughout the midwestern states. In 1927, he graduated from the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[14]

Although many associate Welk's music with a style quite separate from jazz, he recorded one notable vocal in a ragtime style in Nov 1928 for Gennett Records, based in Richmond, Indiana: "Spiked Beer", featuring Welk and his Novelty Orchestra.^[15]

During the 1930s, Welk led a traveling big band specializing in dance tunes and "sweetness" music (during this menses, bands performing light-melodic music were referred to as "sweet bands" to distinguish them from the more rhythmic and assertive "hot" bands of artists similar Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington). Initially, the ring traveled around the country past car. They were too poor to rent rooms, so they usually slept and changed clothes in their cars. The term champagne music was derived from an date at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, after a dancer referred to his band'due south audio equally "light and bubbly as champagne." The hotel also lays claim to the original "bubble machine," a prop left over from a 1920s motion picture premiere. Welk described his band'southward sound, proverb, "Nosotros still play music with the champagne manner, which ways light and rhythmic. We place the stress on melody; the chords are played pretty much the way the composer wrote them. We play with a steady beat so dancers tin can follow information technology."^[xvi]

Welk's big band performed across the state, but particularly in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. In the early 1940s, the band began a ten-yr stint at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, regularly cartoon crowds of several thousand. His orchestra also performed frequently at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during the belatedly 1940s. In 1944 and 1945, Welk led his orchestra in ten "Soundies", three-minute motion picture musicals considered to exist the early pioneers of music videos.^[17]

Welk collaborated with Western artist Ruddy Foley to record a version of Spade Cooley's "Shame on Y'all" in 1945. The record (Decca 18698) was number 4 to Cooley's number 5 on Billboard'southward September 15 "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records" listing.^[xviii] From 1949 through 1951, the band had radio programming on ABC, sponsored past Miller Loftier Life, "The Champagne of Bottled Beer."

Recordings [edit]

In add-on to the above-mentioned "Spiked Beer", Welk'south territory band made occasional trips to Richmond, Indiana, and to Grafton, Wisconsin, to record a scattering of sessions for the Gennett and Paramount companies. In November 1928 he recorded iv sides for Gennett spread over two days (i side was rejected), and in 1931 he recorded viii sides for Paramount (in ii sessions) that were issued on the Broadway and Lyric labels. These records are rare and highly valued.

From 1938 to 1940, he recorded frequently in New York and Chicago for Vocalion Records. During this menses Welk recorded numerous instrumentals especially for radio stations; these transcription records became a broadcasting staple. Welk signed with Decca Records in 1941, so recorded for Mercury Records and Coral Records for brusk periods of time before moving to Dot Records in 1959.

In 1967, Welk left Dot Records and joined its erstwhile executive Randy Wood in creating Ranwood Records. Welk bought back all his masters from Dot and Coral, and Ranwood became the outlet for all of Welk's many artists. They started with a huge reissue of old Dot albums in 1968 to become them started on the right foot.^{[nineteen] [20]} Woods'southward interest was sold to Welk in 1979. In 2015, Welk Music Group sold the Vanguard and Saccharide Hill labels to Concord Wheel Music while retaining buying of the Ranwood itemize. Welk'southward manor licensed the Ranwood catalogue to Concur Music Group for 10 years.^[21]

The Lawrence Welk Show [edit]

In 1951, Welk settled in Los Angeles. The same yr, he began producing The Lawrence Welk Show on KTLA in Los Angeles, where it was broadcast from the Aragon Ballroom in Venice Beach. The prove became a local hit and was picked upwards by ABC in June 1955.

During its first twelvemonth on the air, the Welk hour instituted several regular features. To make Welk'southward "Champagne Music" tagline visual, the production crew engineered a "bubble machine" that spouted streams of large bubbling across the bandstand. While the bubble motorcar was originally engineered to produce soap bubbles, complaints from the band members about soapy build-ups on their instruments led to the machine beingness reworked to produce glycerine bubbling instead. During the bear witness'due south first year, the bubble machine operated continuously, with the bubbles wafting across the musicians' faces and instruments for the entire hour. Within a year, the bubble auto was retired except for the opening and closing "Champagne Music" selections. Whenever the orchestra played a polka or waltz, Welk himself would dance with the ring's female singer, the "Champagne Lady". This was a long-standing tradition in the Welk band; the offset Champagne Lady was Lois Best (1939 to 1941), followed during the war years by Jayne Walton.

Beginning with the Welk show's freshman year, Welk was conscientious to programme current songs in add-on to the traditional big-ring standards. The Boyd Bennett stone-and-roll striking "My Male child Flat Top" was featured on two dissimilar programs (November 26, 1955 and December 10, 1955, the latter featuring Buddy Merrill on electrical guitar). The policy was relaxed over the next year, with new songs still being included but now being treated every bit novelty arrangements. In the Dec 8, 1956 broadcast, "Nuttin' for Christmas" became a vehicle for Rocky Rockwell dressed in a child's outfit, and Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Savage" was sung past the violinist Bob Lido, wearing simulated Presley-way sideburns.^{[ citation needed ]} In another episode, the Lennon Sisters and Norma Zimmer performed the Orlons' No. 2 popular hitting "The Wah-Watusi" with the bass vocalizer Larry Hooper wearing a beatnik outfit.

These stood in comparison to the gimmicky American Bandstand, which catered to a teenager audition and featured the latest acts. In a 1971 episode, Welk infamously billed the Brewer & Shipley single, "1 Toke Over the Line" (performed every bit a duet past Gail Farrell and Dick Dale), as a "modern spiritual";^[22] social conservatives of the era saw it as subversive. Later in the 1970s, even so, Welk'due south programs oftentimes included current adult contemporary songs performed by his singers, including "Feelings" and "Love Will Proceed Us Together" (made famous by Morris Albert and Captain & Tennille, respectively), and current songs were included up through 1982, the final year of production of the testify.

Whenever a Dixieland tune was scheduled, Welk harked back to his days with the Hotsy Totsy Boys and enthusiastically led the band. Befitting the target audition, the blazon of music on The Lawrence Welk Testify was conservative, concentrating on popular music standards, show tunes, polkas, and novelty songs, delivered in a smooth, calm, practiced-humored easy-listening mode and "family-oriented" fashion. Although described by one critic, Canadian journalist and entertainment editor Frank Rasky, equally "the squarest music this side of Euclid",^[23] this strategy proved commercially successful, and the show remained on the air for 31 years.

Welk's musicians included accordionist Myron Floren, the concert violinist Dick Kesner, the guitarist Buddy Merrill, and the New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain. Though Welk was occasionally rumored to be tight with a dollar, he paid his regular band members top scale. Long tenure was common amid the regulars. For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the show's run. He was noted for spotlighting individual members of his ring.

Welk had a number of instrumental hits, including a encompass of the song "Yellow Bird". His highest charting record was "Calcutta", written by Heino Gaze, which achieved hit status in 1961.^[24] Welk himself was indifferent to the tune, but his musical director, George Cates, said that if Welk did not wish to record the song, he (Cates) would. Welk replied, "Well, if it's adept enough for y'all, George, I judge it's good plenty for me."^{[ This quote needs a citation ]} Although the rock-and-whorl explosion in the mid-1950s had driven most older artists off the charts, "Calcutta" reached number i on the U.South. pop charts betwixt 13 and 26 February 1961; it was recorded in only one take.^[25] The tune knocked the Shirelles' "Will Y'all Dear Me Tomorrow" out of the number 1 position, and information technology kept the Miracles' "Shop Around" from becoming the group'southward offset number-1 hitting, belongings their recording at number two. Information technology sold more one meg copies and was awarded a golden disc.^[26]

The album Calcutta! also achieved number-one condition. The albums Terminal Appointment, Xanthous Bird, Moon River, Young World and Infant Elephant Walk and Theme from the Brothers Grimm, produced in the early 60s, were in Billboard 's top ten; nine more than albums produced betwixt 1956 and 1963 were in the meridian twenty. His albums continued to nautical chart through 1973.^[24]

Welk's insistence on wholesome amusement led him to exist a taskmaster at times. For instance, he fired Alice Lon, at the time the prove'south "Champagne Lady," because he believed she was showing too much leg.^[27] Welk told the audience that he would not tolerate such "cheesecake" performances on his show; he later tried unsuccessfully to rehire the vocaliser after fan post indicated overwhelmingly that viewers opposed her dismissal. He so had a series of curt-term "Champagne Ladies" earlier Norma Zimmer filled that spot on a permanent basis. Highly involved with his stars' personal lives, he often arbitrated their marital disputes.^[28] His musical conservatism acquired occasional controversies every bit well. Despite the authentic New Orleans Dixieland clarinet that made him a popular bandage member, Pete Fountain left the orchestra in a dispute with Welk over adding a jazz solo to a Christmas song.

Reflecting the controversies about the quality of Welk'southward music amongst the cognoscenti, in 1956, musical satirist Stan Freberg, known for his love of jazz, wrote and recorded a biting Welk satire, "Wunnerful! Wunnerful!" Freberg impersonated Welk. Recorded with some of Hollywood'southward best jazz musicians, bundled by Billy May to sound like authentic Welk, the single mocked Welk's accordion work, his sometimes-stumbling patter between songs and the music of such Welk favorites Rocky Rockwell ("Stony Stonedwell"), Champagne Lady Alice Lon ("Alice Lean") and Larry Hooper ("Larry Looper"). Welk was not amused, and when he met Freberg years later, claimed he never used the "Wunnerful! Wunnerful!" term. Ironically, it became the title of Welk's 1971 autobiography.

Despite its staid reputation, The Lawrence Welk Testify nonetheless kept up with the times and never limited itself strictly to music of the large-band era. During the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the prove incorporated cloth by such contemporary sources as the Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Neil Sedaka, the Everly Brothers and Paul Williams (as well as, in the most notorious case, Brewer & Shipley), all arranged in a format that was easily digestible to older viewers. Originally produced in black and white, in 1957 the show began being recorded on videotape, and it switched to color for the autumn 1965 season.^{[ citation needed ]}

During its network run, The Lawrence Welk Show aired on ABC on Sabbatum nights at 9 p.grand. (Eastern Fourth dimension), moving up a half-hour to 8:30 p.m. in the fall of 1963. In fact, Welk headlined ii weekly prime number-time shows on ABC for three years. From 1956 to 1958, he hosted Top Tunes and New Talent, which aired on Monday nights. The series moved to Wednesdays in the fall of 1958 and was renamed The Plymouth Prove, which ended in May 1959. During that time, the Saturday show was also known as The Dodge Dancing Party. During this menstruum, the networks were in the process of eliminating programming that was seen as having either too old an audience, did not appeal to urban residents, or both (the so-chosen Rural Purge). As The Lawrence Welk Show fit into this category, ABC ended its run in 1971. Welk thanked ABC and the sponsors at the end of the concluding network show. The Lawrence Welk Testify continued on as a first-run syndicated programme shown on 250 stations across the country until the last original testify was produced in 1982, when Welk decided to retire. While many longtime Idiot box shows suffered a serious ratings drop during the counterculture motion of the late 1960s, The Lawrence Welk Testify survived largely intact and fifty-fifty had increased viewership during this time.^[29]

For the unabridged run, musical numbers were divided fairly evenly between prerecorded lip- and finger-sync performances and those recorded live on flick or tape. Generally, the big production numbers featuring dancing and singing performances were recorded earlier in the mean solar day or the day earlier, often at famous recording studios in and around nearby Hollywood, while the more than intimate numbers were recorded alive on tape or moving picture.

Personal life [edit]

Welk was married for 61 years, until his decease in 1992, to Fern Renner (August 26, 1903 – February 13, 2002), with whom he had three children. One of his sons, Lawrence Welk Jr., married fellow Lawrence Welk Bear witness performer Tanya Falan; they later on divorced. Welk had many grandchildren and peachy-grandchildren during his lifetime.

Known as a adept businessman, Welk had investments in existent manor and music publishing. He was the general partner in a commercial real manor development at 100 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. The 21-story white tower, located on the bluffs overlooking Santa Monica Bay at Ocean Avenue, is the tallest building in Santa Monica.^[30] It was a joint venture with the engineering business firm Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall. Its largest original tenant was GTE, now Verizon. Welk as well endemic the adjacent 16-story luxury apartment building at 1221 Ocean Avenue--^[31] the "Lawrence Welk Champagne Towers", and Welk made his personal residence in the complex. He built the adjacent 11-story Wilshire Palisades function building at 1299 Ocean Avenue at Arizona Street.^[32] Designed to resemble a white bounding main liner, it has a wedge-shaped "bow" edge, receding "decks" with railings, and air conditioner covers that look like smokestacks. Its shape creates a landscaped plaza on the corner, and the event is a landmark.^{[ citation needed ]}

Welk enjoyed playing golf, which he starting time took up in the late 1950s, and was often a regular at many celebrity pro-am tournaments, such as the Bob Promise Desert Archetype.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Welk was awarded four U.s.a. pattern patents:

• A musically themed eatery menu^[33]
• An accordion-themed tray for serving nutrient at a eating house^[34]
• An piano accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant^[35]
• An accordion-themed ashtray^[36]

A devout Roman Catholic, Welk was a daily communicant, as corroborated past numerous biographies, by his autobiography and by his family unit and his many staff, friends and assembly throughout the years.^[37]

After years [edit]

Later on retiring from his bear witness and from the road in 1982, Welk continued to air reruns of his shows, which were repackaged first for syndication and, starting in 1986, for public tv set. He likewise starred in and produced a pair of Christmas specials in 1984 and 1985. In addition, he owned a eating place and club in Escondido, where he filmed atomic number 82-ins for reruns of The Lawrence Welk Evidence.

Welk died of pneumonia on May 17, 1992, at historic period 89 in his Santa Monica apartment, surrounded by his family. He was buried in Holy Cantankerous Cemetery, in Culver City, California.

Singles [edit]

Year	Single	Chart positions
		Usa	CB	US – Air-conditioning
1938	"Colorado Sunset" b/due west "There'southward A Faraway Wait In Your Eyes"	17	–	–
	"Modify Partners" b/due west "I Used to Be Colour Blind"	13	–	–
	"I Won't Tell A Soul" /	viii	–	–
	"Two Sleepy People"	thirteen	–	–
1939	"Annabelle" b/w "Then I Wrote A Song Virtually Y'all"	10	–	–
	"The Moon Is A Argent Dollar" b/westward "I'm A Lucky Devil"	7	–	–
	"Bubbling In The Wine" b/westward "On Sweetheart Bay"	thirteen	–	–
	"I'one thousand Happy About The Whole Thing" b/w "In A Moment Of Weakness"	18	–	–
1941	"Daddy's Lullaby" /	21	–	–
	"Maria Elena"	22	–	–
	"Little Sleepy Head" b/w "Sweet and Low"	21	–	–
1942	"Dearest Dwelling In Holland"	21	–	–
1944	"Cleanin' My Rifle (And Dreamin' Of You lot)" /	23	–	–
	"I Wish That I Could Hide Inside This Letter"	20	–	–
	"Don't Sweetheart Me" /	two	–	–
	"Mairzy Doats"	16	–	–
	"Is My Baby Blue Tonight?" b/w "One Little Lie Also Many"	13	–	–
1945	"Shame On You"* b/westward "At Mail Call Today" Both sides with Red Foley	thirteen	–	–
1953	"Oh Happy Solar day" b/w "Your Mother and Mine"	5	3	–
1955	"Bonnie Bluish Gal" b/w "Sam, The Old Accordion Man"	–	27	–
1956	"Moritat" (Theme From "The Threepenny Opera") b/w "Stompin' at the Savoy"	17	–	–
	"The Poor People of Paris" b/w "Nobody Knows But The Lord"	17	–	–
	"On the Street Where You Live" b/w "I Could Have Danced All Night"	96	–	–
	"Weary Blues" (with The McGuire Sisters) /	32	42	–
	"In the Alps" (with The McGuire Sisters)	63	–	–
	"Tonight Y'all Belong to Me" (with The Lennon Sisters) /	17	iii	–
	"When the Lilacs Flower Again"	70	18	–
1957	"Cinco Robles" b/w "Whispering Heart"	–	29	–
	"Liechtensteiner Polka" b/w "You Know Likewise Much"	48	–	–
1960	"Last Engagement" b/west "Think Lolita"	21	103	–
	"Calcutta" b/due west "My Grandfather's Clock"	1	1	–
1961	"Theme From 'My 3 Sons'" /	55	28	–
	"Out Of A Clear Blue Heaven"	–	128	–
	"Yellowish Bird" b/w "Cruising Downwardly the River"	71	–	–
	"Riders In The Sky" /	87	69	–
	"My Love For Yous"	–	141	–
	"A-One A-Ii A-Cha Cha Cha" b/westward "You lot Gave Me Wings"	117	94	–
1962	"Runaway" b/w "Happy Love"	56	87	–
	"Baby Elephant Walk" /	48	84	10
	"Theme From 'The Brothers Grimm'"	–	130	–
	"Zero-Zip" b/due west "Dark Theme"	98	79	–
1963	"Scarlett O'Hara" /	89	100	–
	"Breakwater"	100	101	–
	"Blue Velvet" /	103	–	–
	"Fiesta"	106	111	–
1964	"Stockholm" b/w "The Girl From Barbados"	91	115	–
1965	"Apples and Bananas" b/w "Theme From 'The Addams Family'"	75	88	17
1967	"The Beat Goes On" b/w "And so You Can Tell Me Goodbye"	104	94	–
1968	"Green Tambourine" b/westward "Scout What Happens"	–	–	27
1970	"Southtown, U.S.A." b/w "Hello, Dolly!"	–	–	37

* "Shame On You" as well made the U.s.a. State charts (No. ane) as well as its flip side, "At Mail Telephone call Today" (No. 3)
** "Calcutta" besides fabricated the U.s.a. R&B chart, reaching No. 10

Honors [edit]

In 1961, Welk was inducted as a charter fellow member of the Rough Rider Laurels from his native North Dakota.^[38] In 1967, he received the Horatio Alger Award from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.^[39] He later served equally the G Marshal for the Rose Bowl's Tournament of Roses parade in 1972. Welk received the Gilt Plate Honour of the American University of Accomplishment in 1980.^[40]

In 1994, Welk was inducted into the International Polka Music Hall of Fame.^[41]

Welk has a star for recording on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6613½ Hollywood Boulevard. He has a second star at 1601 Vine Street for idiot box.

In 2007, Welk was a lease member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana.

Legacy [edit]

Welk'south band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri. In add-on, the tv set show has been repackaged for broadcast on PBS stations, with updates from show performers appearing as wraparounds where the original shows had commercial breaks. The repackaged shows are broadcast at roughly the same Saturday nighttime fourth dimension slot every bit the original ABC shows, and special longer rebroadcasts are oftentimes shown during individual stations' fund-raising periods. These repackaged shows are produced by the Oklahoma Educational Television Authorisation.^[42]

A resort customs developed by Welk and promoted heavily by him on the show is named for him. Formerly known as Lawrence Welk Hamlet, the Welk Resort and Champagne Hamlet are just off Interstate fifteen north of Escondido, California, virtually 38 miles (61 km) n of downtown San Diego. Welk lived in a rather flush "cottage" in Lawrence Welk Village. The resort is open to the public and contains ii golf courses, dozens of upscale timeshares, and a theater that contains a museum of Welk'south life. The Welk Resort Theatre performs live Broadway musicals yr-round.

His arrangement, the Welk Group, includes Welk Resorts (run past his grandson Jon Fredricks), backdrop in Escondido; Palm Springs; Branson, Missouri; Lake Tahoe; and Cabo San Lucas, United mexican states. Information technology besides includes Welk Syndication, which broadcasts the show on public television, and the Welk Music Group, which operates the tape labels Saccharide Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood. From the belatedly 1950s to the mid-1980s, the Welk Grouping was known as Teleklew, in which tele stood for television and klew was Welk spelled backwards.

The "Alive Lawrence Welk Show" makes almanac concert tours across the The states and Canada, featuring stars from the television series, including Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Gail Farrell and Anacani.

Welk'due south variety bear witness has been repeatedly parodied in U.S. pop amusement for decades. The one-act show Saturday Night Live had a recurring sketch during the tardily 2000s and early 2010s, in which he was portrayed past Fred Armisen.^{[43] [44]}

Books by Welk [edit]

All books written with Bernice McGeehan and published by Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, Due north.J.), except where indicated:

• Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk, 1971, ISBN 0-thirteen-971515-0
• Ah-I, Ah-2! Life with My Musical Family, 1974, ISBN 0-13-020990-2
• My America, Your America, 1976, ISBN 0-13-608414-1
• Lawrence Welk's Musical Family Anthology, 1977, ISBN 0-13-526624-6
• Welk with McGeehan, Lawrence Welk's Bunny Rabbit Concert, illustrated by Ballad Bryan, Indianapolis: Youth Publications/Saturday Evening Post Co., 1977, ISBN 0-89387-501-v (children'south book)
• Yous're Never Also Young, 1981, ISBN 0-thirteen-977181-6

Run across also [edit]

• The Lennon Sisters – mainstay singers for Welk from 1955 to 1968
• Aragon Ballroom (Ocean Park)

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Further reading [edit]

• Coakley, Mary Lewis. Mister Music Maker, Lawrence Welk (1958).
• Govoni, Albert. The Lawrence Welk Story (1961)
• Kloberdanz, Timothy J. "Symbols of High german-Russian Ethnic Identity on the Northern Plains." Great Plains Quarterly 8#1 (1988): three–15 online.
• Miller, John. "From the Bang-up Plains to LA: The Intersecting Paths of Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson." Virginia Quarterly Review 79.2 (2003): 265.
• Miller, John East. "Lawrence Welk and John Wooden: Midwestern pocket-sized-town boys who never left home." Journal of American Studies 38.one (2004): 109–125.
• Schweinher, William K. Lawrence Welk: An American Institution (1980).
• Vickery-Bareford, Melissa. "Welk, Lawrence" American National Biography (1999) https://doi.org/ten.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803327
• Zehnpfennig, Gladys. Lawrence Welk: Champagne Music Human (1968)

External links [edit]

• Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show
• Lawrence Welk at IMDb
• North Dakota Land Univ. database of Lawrence Welk Music Arrangements
• Lawrence Welk'southward recordings in the 1920s and 1930s, along with other info
• Welk Musical Family website
• Welk Musical Family web log

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk

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