Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the Clarinet Polka entitled " Disco Accordion ".

Other niche programs such as The Lawrence Welk Show ( which targeted older audiences ) and Soul Train ( a black-oriented program ) also rose to prominence in syndication during the era.

During the show's peak in popularity, Hee Haw often competed in syndication against The Lawrence Welk Show, a long-running ABC program which had also been canceled in 1971, also in an attempt to purge the networks of older demographic-leaning programs.

Like Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk was picked up for syndication in the fall of 1971, and there were some markets where the same station aired both programs.

( The success of Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk in syndication, and the network decisions that led to their respective cancellations, were the inspiration for a novelty song called " The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka ," performed by Clark ; the song became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1972.

The song was also sung at Bush's 2005 inauguration by Guy Hovis, former cast member of The Lawrence Welk Show.

* 1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician ( d. 1992 )

** Lawrence Welk, American television musician ( d. 1992 )

* November 5 – Myron Floren, American accordionist ( The Lawrence Welk Show ) ( d. 2005 )

* May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician ( b. 1903 )

** Buddy Merrill, American musician, The Lawrence Welk Show

* August 13 – Barney Liddell, American musician ( The Lawrence Welk Show ) ( died 2003 )

** Norma Zimmer, American singer ( The Lawrence Welk Show ) ( d. 2011 )

Lawrence Welk ( March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992 ) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982.

The 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.

Befitting the target audience, the type of music on The Lawrence Welk Show was almost always conservative, concentrating on popular music standards, polkas, and novelty songs, delivered in a smooth, calm, good-humored easy listening style and " family-oriented " manner.

Despite its staid reputation, The Lawrence Welk Show nonetheless did keep up with the times and never limited itself strictly to big-band era music.

During its network run, The Lawrence Welk Show aired on ABC on Saturday nights at 9 p. m. ( Eastern Time ), moving up a half-hour to 8: 30 p. m. in the fall of 1963.

The Lawrence Welk Show continued on as a first-run syndicated show on 250 stations across the country until the final original show was produced in 1982.

Lawrence Welk at ground breaking for the new Union Bank N. A.

One of his sons, Lawrence Welk Jr., married fellow Lawrence Welk Show performer Tanya Falan ; they later divorced.

He also appeared as Dick Burlingame and Charles Lawrence in the 1960 episodes " The Blue Goose " and " Dark Fear " of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

The " Live Lawrence Welk Show " makes annual concert tours across the United States and Canada, featuring stars from the television series, including Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Gail Farrell, Anacani and Big Tiny Little.

* Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show

* The Lawrence Welk Show, television show hosted by Lawrence Welk

In 1955, the network picked up the national broadcast rights to KTLA's Dodge Dancing Party, which eventually evolved into The Lawrence Welk Show, becoming an ABC fixture throughout the late 1950s and 1960s.

* Jack Imel, television producer, Lawrence Welk Show

* Gail Farrell – Cast member of The Lawrence Welk Show.

`` All is not sex '', declared Lawrence.

Lawrence Lipton, in The Holy Barbarians, stresses that for the beat generation sex is more than a source of pleasure ; ;

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

Schwab also declared there is no proof of Weinstein's entering a conspiracy to use the U.S. mails to defraud, to which federal prosecutor A. Lawrence Burbank replied:

Young Larson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Larson, 5847 SW Nevada Ct., Portland.

And Lawrence Chase, son of the Ransom Chases, is listed at his new address in Oxford, Eng..

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

* 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.

Albert Lawrence Brooks ( born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947 ) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.

It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the oldest of the University of California system, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dr. Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States ) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.

* the Inverness Coal Field in the western part of the island along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is significantly smaller but hosted several mines

Chicago is a world port city as the St Lawrence Seaway connects Lake Michigan with the Atlantic Ocean.