Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion pla… Read Full Bio ↴Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. Contents [hide]
Lawrence was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, as one of nine children to Catholic, German-speaking immigrants from the French portion of Alsace-Lorraine, via Odessa, Ukraine.
The family lived on a homestead outside of town, which today still stands as a tourist attraction. The first year they lived there, they spent the cold South Dakota winter underneath an upturned wagon covered in sod.[citation needed] Never intent on being a farmer, Welk became interested in a career in music, convincing his father to purchase a mail-order accordion for $400. He made a promise to his father that he would continue to work on the farm until he turned twenty-one; in exchange, he would work on the farm and any money he made working elsewhere, whether doing formwork or putting on a show, would go to his family.
Welk didn't learn English until he was 21 because he always spoke German at home. To the day he died, he spoke with a noticeable German accent. When he was asked about his ancestry, he replied always with "Alsace-Lorraine, Germany"; this is explained in his autobiography, entitled "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!"
On his twenty-first birthday, Welk, having fulfilled his promise to his father, left the family farm to pursue a career in music. During the 1920s, he first performed with the Lincoln Boulds and George T. Kelly bands, before starting his own orchestra. He led big band engagements in North Dakota and eastern South Dakota. These bands included the Hotsy Totsy Boys and later the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra.[citation needed] His band was also the station band for popular radio station, WNAX, in Yankton, South Dakota. In 1927, he graduated from the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
During the 1930s, Welk led a traveling big band, specializing in dance tunes and "sweet" music. The term "Champagne Music" was derived from an engagement at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, when a dancer referred to his band's sound as "light and bubbly as champagne." The band performed in many places across the country, particularly in the Chicago area. In the early 1940s, the band began a regular 10-year stint at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, regularly drawing crowds of nearly 7,000.
His orchestra also performed frequently at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during the late 1940s. From 1944 to 1945, Welk led his orchestra in many motion picture "Soundies," considered to be the early pioneers of music videos [citation needed], and the band had its own syndicated radio program, sponsored by Miller High Life Beer.
In 1951, Welk settled in Los Angeles, California. That same year, he began producing "The Lawrence Welk Show" on KTLA in Los Angeles where it was broadcast from the Aragon Ballroom in Venice Beach. After being a local hit, the show was picked up by ABC in the spring of 1955. Welk's television program had a policy to play well-known songs and tunes from previous years, so that the target audience would only hear numbers that they were already familiar with. Very occasionally, in the TV show's early days, the band would play a tune from the current charts, but strictly as a novelty number ("Nuttin' for Christmas" became a vehicle for comic singer Rocky Rockwell, dressed in a child's outfit; Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" was sung by violinist Bob Lido, wearing fake Elvis Presley sideburns).
Welk never lost his affection for the hot jazz he'd played in the 1920s, and when a Dixieland tune was scheduled, he would enthusiastically lead the band.
The type of music on "The Lawrence Welk Show" was almost always conservative, concentrating mostly on popular music standards, polkas, and novelty songs, delivered in a smooth, calming, good-humored easy listening style and "family-oriented" manner. Although described by one critic as "the squarest music this side of Euclid,"[citation needed] this strategy proved commercially successful, and helped it stay on the air for 28 years.
Much of the show's appeal was Welk himself. His unusual accent appealed to the audience. (On one 1955 show, he mentioned Danny Thomas's series, "Mek Room fur Deddy.") While Welk's English was passable, he never did grasp the English "idiom" completely, and was thus famous for his "Welk-isms," such as "George, I want to see you when you have a minute, right now." His TV show was recorded as if it was a live performance, and was sometimes quite freewheeling. Another famous "Welk-ism" was his trademark count-off, "A one and a two.." which was immortalized on his California automobile license plate that read "A1ANA2".[citation needed] This plate is visible on the front of a Model A Ford in one of the shows from 1980.
He often took ladies from the audience for a turn around the dance floor. During one show, Welk brought a cameraman out to dance with one of the ladies and took over the camera himself.
Welk's musicians were always top quality, including accordionist Myron Floren and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain. Though Welk was occasionally rumored to be very tight with a dollar, he paid his regular band members top scale - a very good living for a working musician. Long tenure was very common among Welk's regulars. For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the show's run. He was noted for spotlighting individual members of his band and show. His band was well-disciplined and had excellent arrangements in all styles.[citation needed] One notable showcase was his album with the noted jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges. Welk had a number of instrumental hits, including a cover of the song "Yellow Bird". His highest charting record was his recording of "Calcutta". 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 good enough for you, George, I guess it's good enough for me.” Despite the emergence of rock and roll, "Calcutta" reached number 1 on the U.S. pop charts in 1961, and was recorded in only one take.
However, Walk’s insistence on wholesome entertainment led him to be a somewhat stern taskmaster at times. For example, he fired Alice Lon, the original "Champagne Lady," on the air after she crossed her legs on a desk. [Citation needed] Welk told the audience that he would not tolerate such "cheesecake" performances on his show. He often arbitrated marriage disputes for his stars.
"The Lawrence Welk Show" embraced changes on the musical scene over the years. The show continued to feature fresh music alongside the classics for as long as it existed, even music originally not intended for the big band sound. During the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the show incorporated material by such contemporary sources as The Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, The Everly Brothers and Paul Williams, albeit in Welk's signature "Champagne" style. The show, which was originally produced in black and white, was recorded on videotape starting in 1957, and it switched to color for the fall TV season that started in September of 1965. In time, it would feature synthesized music and, toward the end of its run, early chroma key technology would add a new dimension to the story settings sometimes used for the musical numbers. He referred to his blue screen effect in one episode as "the magic of television."
During its network run, "The Lawrence Welk Show" aired on ABC on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. (Eastern Time). In fact, Lawrence headlined two weekly prime time shows on ABC for three years. From 1956 to 1958, he hosted a show entitled 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 Show, which expired in May 1959. During that time, the Saturday show was also known as The Dodge Dancing Party. ABC cancelled the show in the spring of 1971, citing an aging audience. However, it continued on as a syndicated show on 250 stations across the country (including many ABC affiliates, but at an earlier time), until the final original show was produced in 1982.
Welk was married for 61 years, until his death, to Fern Renner, with whom he had three children. One of his sons, Lawrence Welk, Jr., ended up marrying fellow "Lawrence Welk Show" performer Tanya Falan (they later divorced). Welk left many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of them, grandson Lawrence Welk III who usually goes by "Larry Welk", is a reporter and helicopter traffic pilot for KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.
Known as an excellent businessman, the maestro, thanks to wise investments in real estate and music publishing, was the second wealthiest entertainer in Hollywood, the wealthiest being Bob Hope. Today (2007) as one travels from Victorville to San Diego on I-15 one passes by many properties that Welk either owned at one time or helped develop.
He enjoyed playing golf, which he first took up in the late 1950s, and was often a regular at many celebrity pro-ams such as the Bob Hope Desert Classic.
After retiring his show and from the road in 1982, the maestro continued to air reruns of his shows, which were repackaged first for syndication and starting in 1986 for public television. Welk also starred and produced a pair of Christmas specials in 1984 and 1985.
He died from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California in 1992 at age 89 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
His band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri. In addition, the television show has been repackaged for broadcast on PBS stations, with updates from show performers appearing where commercial breaks were during the original shows. The repackaged shows are broadcast at roughly the same Saturday-night time slot as the original ABC shows, and special longer Welk show rebroadcasts are often shown during individual stations' fund-raising periods.
A resort community, developed by the maestro and promoted heavily by him on the show, is still named for Welk. "Lawrence Welk Village" is just off Interstate 15 north of Escondido, California, about 55 miles northeast of San Diego. Lawrence Welk Village is where Welk actually lived in a rather affluent "cottage". There are many other homes like this in this community in which notables such as John Wayne lived or came to stay to get away from San Diego or Los Angeles, as well as folks from his show who lived there, not to mention people in the Hollywood area who also owned or have owned property there. The Village has strict security; in addition, the Lawrence Welk Museum resides on a public access street also named after him, Lawrence Welk Drive.
His organization, The Welk Group, consists of his resort communities in Branson and Escondido; Welk Syndication, which is responsible for broadcasting the show on public television, and the Welk Music Group, which operates record labels Sugar Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood. From the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, the Welk Group was known as Teleklew in which tele stood for television and klew was Welk spelled backwards.
The Live Lawrence Welk Show makes annual concert tours across the United States and Canada featuring the actual stars from the television series such as Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Gail Farrell, Anacani and Big Tiny Little.
The Welk family homestead in Strasburg is now a popular tourist attraction in North Dakota
Lawrence was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, as one of nine children to Catholic, German-speaking immigrants from the French portion of Alsace-Lorraine, via Odessa, Ukraine.
The family lived on a homestead outside of town, which today still stands as a tourist attraction. The first year they lived there, they spent the cold South Dakota winter underneath an upturned wagon covered in sod.[citation needed] Never intent on being a farmer, Welk became interested in a career in music, convincing his father to purchase a mail-order accordion for $400. He made a promise to his father that he would continue to work on the farm until he turned twenty-one; in exchange, he would work on the farm and any money he made working elsewhere, whether doing formwork or putting on a show, would go to his family.
Welk didn't learn English until he was 21 because he always spoke German at home. To the day he died, he spoke with a noticeable German accent. When he was asked about his ancestry, he replied always with "Alsace-Lorraine, Germany"; this is explained in his autobiography, entitled "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!"
On his twenty-first birthday, Welk, having fulfilled his promise to his father, left the family farm to pursue a career in music. During the 1920s, he first performed with the Lincoln Boulds and George T. Kelly bands, before starting his own orchestra. He led big band engagements in North Dakota and eastern South Dakota. These bands included the Hotsy Totsy Boys and later the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra.[citation needed] His band was also the station band for popular radio station, WNAX, in Yankton, South Dakota. In 1927, he graduated from the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
During the 1930s, Welk led a traveling big band, specializing in dance tunes and "sweet" music. The term "Champagne Music" was derived from an engagement at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, when a dancer referred to his band's sound as "light and bubbly as champagne." The band performed in many places across the country, particularly in the Chicago area. In the early 1940s, the band began a regular 10-year stint at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, regularly drawing crowds of nearly 7,000.
His orchestra also performed frequently at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during the late 1940s. From 1944 to 1945, Welk led his orchestra in many motion picture "Soundies," considered to be the early pioneers of music videos [citation needed], and the band had its own syndicated radio program, sponsored by Miller High Life Beer.
In 1951, Welk settled in Los Angeles, California. That same year, he began producing "The Lawrence Welk Show" on KTLA in Los Angeles where it was broadcast from the Aragon Ballroom in Venice Beach. After being a local hit, the show was picked up by ABC in the spring of 1955. Welk's television program had a policy to play well-known songs and tunes from previous years, so that the target audience would only hear numbers that they were already familiar with. Very occasionally, in the TV show's early days, the band would play a tune from the current charts, but strictly as a novelty number ("Nuttin' for Christmas" became a vehicle for comic singer Rocky Rockwell, dressed in a child's outfit; Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" was sung by violinist Bob Lido, wearing fake Elvis Presley sideburns).
Welk never lost his affection for the hot jazz he'd played in the 1920s, and when a Dixieland tune was scheduled, he would enthusiastically lead the band.
The type of music on "The Lawrence Welk Show" was almost always conservative, concentrating mostly on popular music standards, polkas, and novelty songs, delivered in a smooth, calming, good-humored easy listening style and "family-oriented" manner. Although described by one critic as "the squarest music this side of Euclid,"[citation needed] this strategy proved commercially successful, and helped it stay on the air for 28 years.
Much of the show's appeal was Welk himself. His unusual accent appealed to the audience. (On one 1955 show, he mentioned Danny Thomas's series, "Mek Room fur Deddy.") While Welk's English was passable, he never did grasp the English "idiom" completely, and was thus famous for his "Welk-isms," such as "George, I want to see you when you have a minute, right now." His TV show was recorded as if it was a live performance, and was sometimes quite freewheeling. Another famous "Welk-ism" was his trademark count-off, "A one and a two.." which was immortalized on his California automobile license plate that read "A1ANA2".[citation needed] This plate is visible on the front of a Model A Ford in one of the shows from 1980.
He often took ladies from the audience for a turn around the dance floor. During one show, Welk brought a cameraman out to dance with one of the ladies and took over the camera himself.
Welk's musicians were always top quality, including accordionist Myron Floren and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain. Though Welk was occasionally rumored to be very tight with a dollar, he paid his regular band members top scale - a very good living for a working musician. Long tenure was very common among Welk's regulars. For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the show's run. He was noted for spotlighting individual members of his band and show. His band was well-disciplined and had excellent arrangements in all styles.[citation needed] One notable showcase was his album with the noted jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges. Welk had a number of instrumental hits, including a cover of the song "Yellow Bird". His highest charting record was his recording of "Calcutta". 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 good enough for you, George, I guess it's good enough for me.” Despite the emergence of rock and roll, "Calcutta" reached number 1 on the U.S. pop charts in 1961, and was recorded in only one take.
However, Walk’s insistence on wholesome entertainment led him to be a somewhat stern taskmaster at times. For example, he fired Alice Lon, the original "Champagne Lady," on the air after she crossed her legs on a desk. [Citation needed] Welk told the audience that he would not tolerate such "cheesecake" performances on his show. He often arbitrated marriage disputes for his stars.
"The Lawrence Welk Show" embraced changes on the musical scene over the years. The show continued to feature fresh music alongside the classics for as long as it existed, even music originally not intended for the big band sound. During the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the show incorporated material by such contemporary sources as The Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, The Everly Brothers and Paul Williams, albeit in Welk's signature "Champagne" style. The show, which was originally produced in black and white, was recorded on videotape starting in 1957, and it switched to color for the fall TV season that started in September of 1965. In time, it would feature synthesized music and, toward the end of its run, early chroma key technology would add a new dimension to the story settings sometimes used for the musical numbers. He referred to his blue screen effect in one episode as "the magic of television."
During its network run, "The Lawrence Welk Show" aired on ABC on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. (Eastern Time). In fact, Lawrence headlined two weekly prime time shows on ABC for three years. From 1956 to 1958, he hosted a show entitled 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 Show, which expired in May 1959. During that time, the Saturday show was also known as The Dodge Dancing Party. ABC cancelled the show in the spring of 1971, citing an aging audience. However, it continued on as a syndicated show on 250 stations across the country (including many ABC affiliates, but at an earlier time), until the final original show was produced in 1982.
Welk was married for 61 years, until his death, to Fern Renner, with whom he had three children. One of his sons, Lawrence Welk, Jr., ended up marrying fellow "Lawrence Welk Show" performer Tanya Falan (they later divorced). Welk left many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of them, grandson Lawrence Welk III who usually goes by "Larry Welk", is a reporter and helicopter traffic pilot for KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.
Known as an excellent businessman, the maestro, thanks to wise investments in real estate and music publishing, was the second wealthiest entertainer in Hollywood, the wealthiest being Bob Hope. Today (2007) as one travels from Victorville to San Diego on I-15 one passes by many properties that Welk either owned at one time or helped develop.
He enjoyed playing golf, which he first took up in the late 1950s, and was often a regular at many celebrity pro-ams such as the Bob Hope Desert Classic.
After retiring his show and from the road in 1982, the maestro continued to air reruns of his shows, which were repackaged first for syndication and starting in 1986 for public television. Welk also starred and produced a pair of Christmas specials in 1984 and 1985.
He died from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California in 1992 at age 89 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
His band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri. In addition, the television show has been repackaged for broadcast on PBS stations, with updates from show performers appearing where commercial breaks were during the original shows. The repackaged shows are broadcast at roughly the same Saturday-night time slot as the original ABC shows, and special longer Welk show rebroadcasts are often shown during individual stations' fund-raising periods.
A resort community, developed by the maestro and promoted heavily by him on the show, is still named for Welk. "Lawrence Welk Village" is just off Interstate 15 north of Escondido, California, about 55 miles northeast of San Diego. Lawrence Welk Village is where Welk actually lived in a rather affluent "cottage". There are many other homes like this in this community in which notables such as John Wayne lived or came to stay to get away from San Diego or Los Angeles, as well as folks from his show who lived there, not to mention people in the Hollywood area who also owned or have owned property there. The Village has strict security; in addition, the Lawrence Welk Museum resides on a public access street also named after him, Lawrence Welk Drive.
His organization, The Welk Group, consists of his resort communities in Branson and Escondido; Welk Syndication, which is responsible for broadcasting the show on public television, and the Welk Music Group, which operates record labels Sugar Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood. From the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, the Welk Group was known as Teleklew in which tele stood for television and klew was Welk spelled backwards.
The Live Lawrence Welk Show makes annual concert tours across the United States and Canada featuring the actual stars from the television series such as Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Gail Farrell, Anacani and Big Tiny Little.
The Welk family homestead in Strasburg is now a popular tourist attraction in North Dakota
Those Were The Days
Lawrence Welk Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Those Were The Days' by these artists:
A.S.A.P. THOSE HAPPY DAYS Going round in circles trying to catch a…
Aaliyah We ain't lovers no more We don't laugh no more We don't…
Alan & Kelsey Do you remember the good years in Canaan? The summers were…
Alexandra Once upon a time there was tavern Where we used…
Alphaville There is a landscape in my head I sometimes travel But this…
Angel Olsen Do you remember the way that it used to be? I…
Archie & Edith Boy the way Glenn Miller Played Songs that made the Hit…
Bad Boys Blue Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Bevan Mical Verse 1 Rules were the rules We didn’t have a say…
Bobby Vinton Once upon a time, there was a tavern, Where we used…
C.J. Lassiter I remember the days When we walked the halls of heaven Hand…
Can Sezgin Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Caroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
Cream When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long…
Damian & Brothers Hey, do you wanna go back in time c little rewind…
Dido & R Plus We were kids we'd know it all We will live we…
Dolly Parton Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Dolly Parton Featuring Mary Hopkin Porter Wagoner The Opry Gang & The Moscow Circus (Dolly Parton) It's been one of those days That reminded m…
Dolly Parton with Mary Hopkins Porter Wagoner & the Opry Gang and The Moscow Circus Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
ERIC CLAPTON &/THE CREAM When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long…
Foster & Allen You know that there were days when I would hate…
Genius / (GZA) Those were the days, back in Junior High For an 8th…
Gigi D'Agostino - Those were the days - Once upon a time, there…
GRAND THOSE WERE THE DAYS (M.Olofsson/J.Svensson/C.Björck/K.Larsen…
GZA/Genius Those were the days, back in Junior High For an 8th…
Henry Mancini Boy, the way Glenn Miller played Songs that made the…
Hermes House Band Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we…
Hopkins Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Imperial & K.I.N.E.T.I.K. See I don't like the way you got under my…
Invisible Inc. By the way Glenn Miller Plays,) Oh that Glenn Miller…
Jean Stapleton Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
Jerry Jeff Walker We were wild and young and willing to give up…
Jerry Vale Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Jerusalem Those were the days, those were the days Those were the…
Joey DeFrancesco & "Papa" John DeFrancesco Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
Johnny Mathis Once upon a time, there was a tavern Where we used…
Kiki & Herb Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Kiosk Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Lady Sovereign We used to play jump the line Or who could wrap…
Laura Marling Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Lenji Those were the days When our love was young and…
Liam Clancy Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Magnum Now open your eyes Don't tell yourself those lies Any more…
Mary Hopkin Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Mary Hopkin(메리 홉킨) Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Mary Hopkins Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Melanie Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Melo-M Don't you remember better days years ago Those were the days…
Mr. O Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
Nu Breed Y′all remember growing up Back when we was kids Outside play…
Olsen Angel Do you remember the way that it used to be? I…
Parton Dolly Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Percy Faith & His Orchestra & Chorus Do you remember the good years in Canaan? The summers were…
Peter Paul & Mary Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Peters & Lee Those Were The Days (Live) 唱︰李國祥 / 韋綺姍 / 陳德彰 /…
R / Dido We were kids we'd know it all We will live we…
Raul Malo Boy, the way Glenn Miller played Songs that made the hit…
Ray Conniff Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Redeemed Quartet As a child I roamed the hills and valleys Played beneath…
Rita Springer This is a true story. I grew up on a…
Roots 'n' Boots There were times, when I was all alone, Then you came…
Roy Drusky Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Sebastian Tadros I keep thinking ′bout that first time rush. Happened so fast…
Shaggy Feat. Nasha Long time she want me change my ways Knew as me…
Shaggy Feat. Nasha - Those Days On the top of satisfaction Yves Saint Laurent shades in the…
Shakra Was all by myself in never never land Searching my soul…
Sol Back in those days The sun came up You worked all day…
Sons of Maxwell Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Strouse Charles - Lee Adams Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
Susan Lainey Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
The Blades There's a teacher in the class With a tight grip on…
The Cats Cats - Those where the days I can still recall And I…
The Church - Brothers Hey, do you wanna go back in time c little rewind…
The Genius Those were the days, back in Junior High For an 8th…
The Hit Crew Boy, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the…
The Kelly Family Anytime in my life I'm so close to hold up the…
The Limeliters (Boris Fomin/Gene Raskin) Once upon a time, there was a tav…
The Moscow Circus Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
The National Tatarstan Orchestra And Choir Bubby burned the Latkes every Chanukah Forgot them in the fr…
The Refreshments Those were the days J. Arnell I can still recall like…
The T.V. Band Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
The Three Tenors yekhali na troike s bubentsami a vdali melkali aganki ... …
Tomas Fornstedt Many years ago when I was a kid I had a…
Turisas Once upon a time there was a tavern, Where we used…
V.A. Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used…
Various Artists When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long…
Wanda Jackson Once upon a time There was a tavern where we used…
Wasted Penguinz No one else can make me feel the way you…
Watson & Nash I'd lay on the floor until my vision was gone And…
林俊傑 当两颗心开始震动 当你瞳孔学会闪躲 当爱慢慢被遮住只剩下 黑 距离像影子被拉脱 当爱的故事像听说 我找不到你单纯的面孔 …
We have lyrics for these tracks by Lawrence Welk:
Again Again Again Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu When the clouds…
Ain't She Sweet Ain't she sweet? See her walking down that street. Yes I…
Autumn Leaves The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of…
Begin The Beguine When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound of…
Calcutta [Instrumental]…
Canadian Sunset Once I was alone So lonely and then You came, out of…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Carolina In The Morning It's three o'clock in the morning We've danced the whole nig…
Comin' Thro' The Rye O, Jenny's a' wet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry: She draggl…
Dolores How I love the kisses of Dolores Aye-aye-aye Dolores Not Mar…
Don't Sweetheart Me Don't sweetheart me if you don't mean it Don't…
Everybody Loves Somebody The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean, But…
Far Away Places Far away places with strange sounding names Far away over th…
For Me and My Gal The bells are ringing for me and my gal. The birds…
Green Leaves Of Summer A time to be reapin', a time to be sowin'. The…
Hawaii Night and you and Blue Hawaii The night is heavenly…
He Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's…
I Left My Heart In San Francisco I left my heart in San Francisco. High on a hill…
If You Were the Only Girl in the World If you were the only girl in the world And I…
In A Little Secondhand Evenings are crowded with memories Thrilling me again Like t…
It Might As Well Be Spring I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm I'm as…
Josephine There never was a gal I could love, like I…
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so…
Little Green Apples And I wake up in the mornin' With my hair…
Little Town of Bethlehem Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee…
Love In A Home Why do they think up stories that link my name…
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Love is a many splendored thing It's the April rose that…
Love Is Blue There is no greater love Than what I feel for you No…
Love Me Or Leave Me Love me or leave me and let me be lonely You…
Loveliest Night of the Year When you are in love It's the lovliest night of the…
Marianne Marianne, oh, Marianne, oh, won't you marry me? We can have…
Me and My Shadow Shades of night are falling and I'm lonely Standing on the…
Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you You're so like…
Moonlight Bay We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay We could hear the…
My Blue Heaven Don't know when I've been so blue Don't know what's come…
My Calico Gal The bells are ringing for me and my gal. The birds…
My Man It's cost me a lot But there's one thing that I've…
O Little Town Of Bethlehem Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee…
Oh The sun is shinin', oh, happy day-ay No more troubles and…
Organ Grinder's Swing Who's that coming down the street? Good old organ grinder Pe…
Paradise And then she holds my hand, mm And then I understand.…
Peg O' My Heart Peg o'my heart I love you, don't let us part I love…
People Will Say We're In Love Why do they think up stories that link my name…
Remember Oh, give me something to remember you by When you are…
Riders In The Sky To tell you that as a result of your many,…
San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
Santa Claus Is Comin I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Snowbird Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass li…
Someone to Watch Over Me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still were…
Stand By Your Man Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Stumbling 'Tention folks, speak of jokes This is one on me Took my…
Swingin' Down The Lane Everybody's hand in hand Swingin' down the lane Everybody's…
Take Me Home Country Roads Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue ridge mountain, Shenandoa…
Tea for Two Oh honey Picture me upon your knee, With tea for two and…
That Old Black Magic Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
The Christmas Song Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at you…
The Moon Is a Silver Dollar The moon is the silver dollar Shining in the sky There′s the…
The Old Balck Magic Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
The Old Black Magic Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
The Song Is You I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme…
The Umbrella Man When there's a lull and things are dull He sharpens knives…
There's A Small Hotel I'd like to get away, Junior Somewhere alone with you It cou…
Three O'clock in the Morning It's three o'clock in the morning We've danced the whole nig…
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree I'm comin' home, I've done my time Now I've got to…
Till We Meet Again Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu When the clouds…
Tonight Though you belong To somebody else, Tonight you belong to me…
When I Grow Too Old To Dream We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
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Ramon McGee
Seeing Mr. Welk's show always brings back wonderful memories of cuddling up next to Mom and enjoying terrific performances. And New Year's was never the same without Lawrence and Mom. :) Thanks for posting these shows.
Canadian Lawrence Welk Fan
You're most welcome and glad you enjoy these shows.
Shane Spangler
I had never seen this episode before, but this has some of the best performances I’ve seen! Thank you again! A new favorite!!
Canadian Lawrence Welk Fan
Shane Spangler my pleasure and glad you like it 😀
Jesse Coffey
This was the final Welk show to air in Tucson, having run on KUAT's PBS6+ subchannel on August 21, 2021 at 6:00 PM. Filler programming will be seen on 6.3 on August 28, and from September 4 onward, Welk will be replaced on 6.3 with the British reality series Escape to the Chateau, ending the champagne music maker's 55-year history on Tucson TV screens.
Peter Moran
Obviously, Mr. Welk should have just torn that ugly plaid outfit into rags.