Lawrence Welk, one of the nation's foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his 'champagne music” to Cedar Rapids four times during his long career. Welk was born in 1903 in Strasburg ...

When the Jazz Arts Group Big Band takes the stage this afternoon to play music from Lawrence Welk's TV show, the tunes will be a blast from the past, not only for the audience but also the players.

Before he became a household name as the host of his own self-titled television show, Lawrence Welk was a hardworking bandleader shaped by the rural Midwest, European folk traditions, and the rhythms ...

They don't want you to believe what she saw. There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them ...

It's an hour of Gold Record hits including a medley of Lawrence Welk's own hits. Get ready for an hour of nothing but "Gold Record Hits" hosted by Michael Redman ...

Strange things are happening in the Citadel of Square. Inside the Santa Monica headquarters of the Welk Music Group, the champagne music that bubbled in the blood of mainstream America for four ...

Hip dude that I was in the early 1970s, I caught only glimpses of The Lawrence Welk Show on the tube on my way out of the house on Saturday nights. No doubt, to many Americans, Welk and his clean-cut ...

Frank Scott made it big as the pianist and top music arranger for Lawrence Welk. James "Jim" Hendrickson, now of Onamia, Minn., knew Frank well. They grew up two doors away from each other in Fargo.

Jules Herman, 93, a former trumpet player for Lawrence Welk, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Mendota Heights, Minn., his daughter said. Herman grew up on a farm near Milnor, N.D., and ...

Born March 18th, 1934, singer Charley Pride, left his birthplace of Sledge, Mississippi, at age 16 and later became one of the most successful country artists of all time. But that wasn’t exactly what ...