WELK MUSICAL FAMILY

Dick Dale has, here in this musical number with Gail Farrell from 1971 singing about being with a real live girl.  

As plenty of us Welk fans know, Frank Scott was a multi-talented keyboardist and arranger for the Lawrence Welk Orchestra from 1956 to 1969....

From 1968, here's the boys in the band with their rendition of the instrumental piece known to music lovers everywhere as just one word....

I was thinking of doing something different to put on my blog, to keep it fresh. One day, and idea came to me when I listened to repeats o...

You have to dress accordingly, which depends on the place you're visiting.... For a trip to Niagara Falls, stay dry like Guy in a rain...

You may have heard about last month's devastating tornadoes that struck Joplin, Missouri. The Lennon Sisters, just one of the many sta...

This week's show, if you were able to get it, was the Carnival episode from 1981. Let's see what is going on over at the midway......

A commercial that runs two minutes and 43 seconds? That's unheard of in today's television! But back in the late 1950s, it was the...

If you went to a live Welk concert around 1966 to 1967, chances are you might have purchased this program as well. It was also around thi...

Diving into the treasure chest that is You Tube, I found this gem from 1980. It's a Lawrence Welk Show promo from KATU in Portland, Oreg...

Both the Northwest Ohio PBS stations were in mini-pledge mode.... Luckily, the would-be scheduled show is Occupations from 1969 which I a...

This nice collecters item, which can be found on ebay, was first published in 1974 to celebrate Lawrence Welk's 50 years in show busines...

It's always nice to have a three day weekend..... And don't forget to remember those who gave their lives so we can live free....

Just as you thought last year's Lennon Sisters Christmas Show at the Welk Resort would be the last one in Branson ever, think again.... ...

Straight from the Silver Champagne Era, here's Buddy Merrill on his Fender Stratocaster playing the ever-popular "Buddy's Boogi...

Well, the supposed Rapture came and went and nothing happened... Better luck next time doomsday sayers! In the meantime, I invite you to h...

To us Welk fans, and those growing up on the Mickey Mouse Club, he's is just eternally youthful.... Happy Birthday Bobby!

It's something we like to call that Honeymoon Feeling. And this classic Roy Clark hit song is covered here by the Aldridge Sisters fro...

Let's take a look at what happened on this week's episode.... Myron plays a medley of Van Halen songs on the PAN accordion.... ...

In the last few days, the newspaper and media coverage of Norma Zimmer's passing has been fast and furious. There has been many obitua...

The written tributes are coming in paper by paper..... The first one comes from Rita Sherrow of the TULSA WORLD Another fine tribute co...

The Lawrence Welk Show begins it's long run on television when it debuts on KTLA in Los Angeles. Sixty years later, the world is a bet...

I found out last night over on Facebook that Champagne Lady Norma Zimmer has passed away yesterday. She was as Lawrence Welk described, on...

In this month's entry, we stay in the kitchen for another recipe of home cooking from one of the Champagne Music Makers! First publis...

First off, Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there, including my own! Watched the repeat of the 1968 California show last night, it...

From 1980, here's Kathie from the Love Songs episode as she sings "Why Do I Love You?" .....with Joe Livoti leading the str...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of our favorite Italian daughter-in-law of the Maestro....Tanya Falan. She can sing all sorts of song s...

....also known as Bob Havens' birthday Happy Birthday Bob!

So let's get down to the Town & Country Polka from 1960..... ....with Rocky Rockwell ....and Janet Lennon.  

Well, this week all the public television stations will air the Salute to Grammy Winning Songs episode from '74. Which leads me to tod...