Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from...
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The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for...
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The Lennon Sisters (category Lawrence Welk)
June 15, 1946). From 1955 to 1968, the group appeared regularly on The Lawrence Welk Show (receiving union scale wages) before having their own television...
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Norma Zimmer (category Lawrence Welk)
vocalist, best remembered for her 22-year tenure as Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" on The Lawrence Welk Show. Born Norma Larsen on a dairy farm in Shoshone...
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Arthur Duncan (category Lawrence Welk)
"Entertainer's Entertainer," known for his stint as a performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1964 to 1982. This, along with his earlier inclusion (despite...
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Joe Feeney (category Lawrence Welk)
April 16, 2008) was an American tenor singer who was a member of The Lawrence Welk Show television program. Born to an Irish-American family in Grand Island...
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Tanya Falan Welk (born May 4, 1948) is an American singer who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1968 to 1977. Born and raised in Glendale, California...
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Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2008–09 (section The Lawrence Welk Show)
parody of the original "mildly-entertaining" Lawrence Welk Show, this PBS rerun, hosted by Fred Armisen as Welk, features the singing act The Maharelle Sisters...
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Myron Floren (category Lawrence Welk)
2005) was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1980. Floren came to prominence primarily from...
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Ava Barber (category Lawrence Welk)
singer and performer. She is best remembered for her performances on The Lawrence Welk Show throughout much of the 1970s and early 1980s. She is also known...
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the group headed to Los Angeles to audition for The Lawrence Welk Show only for host Lawrence Welk to refuse to hear them sing; they met the Lennon Sisters...
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States and Mexico. It was founded in 1964 by television bandleader Lawrence Welk. As of 2015, the company has developed five properties in Cabo San Lucas...
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Buddy Merrill (category Lawrence Welk)
guitar player and steel guitar player, best known as a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show. Leslie Merrill Behunin, Jr. was the oldest of four children, born...
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Pete Fountain (category Lawrence Welk)
for Lawrence Welk, who saw Fountain performing at the Pier 600, brought him to the attention of Larry Welk, son of television bandleader Lawrence Welk. Persistent...
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Bobby Burgess (category Lawrence Welk)
was one of the original Mouseketeers. Later, he was a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show. Growing up in Southern California, Burgess started performing...
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Bill Page (category Lawrence Welk)
band leader, and entrepreneur who was best known for his work in the Lawrence Welk Band. Page is a World War II veteran of the European theater, serving...
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Ralna English (category Lawrence Welk)
then-husband Guy Hovis, both of whom were featured performers on The Lawrence Welk Show. English was raised in Lubbock, Texas where, as a teenager, she...
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functions and local civil events. An audition for The Lawrence Welk Show went awry after Welk snubbed the quartet, but an encounter with the Lennon Sisters...
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on The Lawrence Welk Show, which Brewer credited with giving the duo "more publicity than we could pay for." Host and bandleader Lawrence Welk later claimed...
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TV host Lawrence Welk on the 1961 Dot Records album Calcutta! was a Number One song in the United States, and the most successful hit of Welk's career...
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Mary Lou Metzger (category Lawrence Welk)
is an American singer and dancer best known as a cast member on The Lawrence Welk Show. Metzger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the only child of...
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Dick Dale (singer) (category Lawrence Welk)
featured singer and saxophone player on the television variety show The Lawrence Welk Show. A native of Algona, Iowa, he served in the United States Navy...
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television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1970 to 1982. The act consists of Guy Hovis and Ralna English, who married in early 1969 and made their Welk debut on...
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Look up Welk, welk, or wełk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Welk or WELK may also refer to: Ehm Welk (1884–1966), German writer Lawrence Welk (1903–1992)...
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Ranwood Records (category Lawrence Welk)
started in 1968 by Randy Wood (after he left Dot Records) and Lawrence Welk. Lawrence Welk owned all of the recordings that he released on Dot as they were...
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their first number one song, such as Bert Kaempfert, The Shirelles, Lawrence Welk, The Marcels, Del Shannon, Ernie K-Doe, Roy Orbison, Gary U.S. Bonds...
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Richard Maloof (category Lawrence Welk)
1, 2024) was an American musician who played bass and tuba for the Lawrence Welk orchestra. Richard Maloof was born and raised by Cy and Lucille Maloof...
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Alice Lon (category Lawrence Welk)
1981), known as Alice Lon, was an American singer and dancer on The Lawrence Welk Show during its early years on network television. By age 6, Lon was...
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RCA Thesaurus (section Lawrence Welk Orchestra)
Freddie Martin. In 1956, Lawrence Welk also signed with Ben Selvin at RCA Thesaurus for recordings on his "New Lawrence Welk Show". By 1956, Ben Selvin...
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Tom Netherton (category Lawrence Welk)
2018), was an American singer. He was known for his tenure on The Lawrence Welk Show. Netherton was born on January 11, 1947, in Munich, Germany while...
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