Welk's big band performed across the country but particularly in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.

In addition to the above mentioned " Spiked Beer ", Welk's territory band made occasional trips to Richmond, Indiana and to Grafton, Wisconsin to record a handful of sessions for the Gennett and Paramount companies.

Since Welk's show targeted an audience of mature, middle-aged viewers, the band would rarely play tunes from the current charts except strictly as novelty numbers.

After this band broke up, four years later Fountain was hired to join the Lawrence Welk orchestra and became well known for his many solos on Welk's ABC television show, The Lawrence Welk Show.

" The resort is open to the public and contains two golf courses, dozens of upscale timeshares, and a theater that contains a museum of Welk's life.

Although many associate Welk's music with a style quite separate from jazz, he did record one notable song in a ragtime style in November 1928 for Indiana-based Gennett Records.

To make Welk's " Champagne Music " tagline visual, the production crew engineered a " bubble machine " that spouted streams of large bubbles across the bandstand.

Jayne left Welk's show after her marriage and later pregnancy.

" featuring Freberg, voice actor Daws Butler and members of Jud Conlon's Rhythmairs, mocking the show's corny nature, the band's more predictable arrangements and Welk's own mediocre accordion work.

Studio musicians on the session included top Hollywood jazz players, many of whom scorned Welk's music and eagerly participated in the parody.

Welk's musicians were always top quality, including accordionist Myron Floren, concert violinist Dick Kesner, guitarist Buddy Merrill, and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain.

Welk's insistence on wholesome entertainment led him to be a somewhat stern taskmaster at times.

Welk's variety show has been parodied in a recurring 2000s sketch on Saturday Night Live, in which he is portrayed by Fred Armisen.

It is the site of Lawrence Welk's Desert Oasis Hotel / resort located in the Cathedral Canyon Country Club.

To replicate Welk's sound, May and some of Hollywood's finest studio musicians and vocalists worked to clone Welk's live on-air style, carefully incorporating bad notes and mistimed cues.

Billy Liebert, a first-rate accordionist, copied Welk's accordion playing.

Another example of being bound by Welk's set of morals was famed clarinetist Pete Fountain, renowned for his New Orleans-style jazz, was a valued member of the Welk cast who was rumored to have quit when Welk refused to let him " jazz up " a Christmas carol.

The first was that the network had to cut programming due to the institution of the Prime Time Access Rule in 1971 ; the other was the fact that Welk's viewership was mostly of people over forty-five, mostly because of the music he chose to play, but also because younger viewers, the core viewing target that networks coveted, were typically out during the Saturday night time slot.

Welk's program was among a group of syndicated niche programs, others including Hee Haw and Soul Train, that flourished during this era.

The film was a retrospective on Welk's life and career, featuring interviews with surviving members of Welk's " musical family ", and scenes from the show.

The record was arranged by Billy May, who handled the music on Freberg sessions and was known to despise Welk's style of music.

Working with May and Freberg, who portrayed Welk, were some of Hollywood's best studio musicians, some of them jazz veterans who also held Welk's music in equal contempt.

Collaboration with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead continues, under the band name The Dead.

Because religion continues to be recognized in Western thought as a universal impulse, many religious practitioners have aimed to band together in interfaith dialogue, cooperation, and religious peacebuilding.

Richman continues to perform, often solo and preferring acoustic instruments, and currently has no plans to undertake another group like his original band.

Arthur, former lead singer of the band The Chart Commandos, still continues to perform with " Big Black Bomb " and is still considered to be an innovating force on the Newcastle music scene.

* August – Gratian continues down the Danube to the " Camp of Mars " ( frontier fortress near modern Niš ) where he loses several men in an ambush by a band of Alans.

April & May were filled with dates in Germany, and the band continues to perform a selection of old and new as they travel to other European countries.

This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C. and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public.

As of 2010, the company continues to thrive with artists like Lisa Mitchell, Evermore ( the New Zealand band ), Kylie Minogue, and newly signed Brisbane act Dead Letter Circus.

Despite multiple lineup changes, the band has remained commercially successful and continues to tour and record.

Founded in 1850, this band continues a tradition of community music with numerous concerts each season.

Fama continues its saga as a band whose music has

The band continues to tour regularly, playing around 70 dates a year.

Kira Roessler continues to record and perform with the band DOS, a duet with then-husband and Minutemen bassist Mike Watt.

Worrell left the band in 1981, but continues to contribute to P-Funk studio albums and occasionally appears live with Parliament-Funkadelic as a special guest.

Mike Hampton has been the lead guitarist for P-Funk since 1973, and continues to tour with the band to the present day.

South Hadley continues to have one of the only competitive marching band programs in all of Western Massachusetts.

The band continues to play in summer concerts and festivals, continuing its long tradition of community performances.

Blood, Sweat & Tears continues its heavy touring schedule throughout the world with its current line-up of members, some of whom have been with the band previously during the past two decades.

The promo features the band while sports analyst Lee Corso crowd surfs to the stage, where he continues his sports reporting.

Mark Farner also tours with his band NRG, and continues to record under his own name.

The band has released eleven studio albums and several EPs and DVDs and continues to tour and record.

The traditional power trio continues to be represented by newer groups such as Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Subways, Biffy Clyro, Wolfmother, Radio Moscow, Cog, Back Door Slam, Russian Circles, Los Lonely Boys, The Fall of Troy, The Wombats, Johnny Foreigner, State Radio, Junkyard Choir, The Young Knives, Rose Hill Drive, Seether, The Steepwater Band, Super 400, North Mississippi Allstars, The Joy Formidable and the John Mayer Trio, among many others who have sprung out of the jam band scene.

He later played with the band MDC ( Millions of Dead Cops ) from 2001 through 2003., Batross continues to live in NYC and has been the sole American member in three all-Japanese bands to date, curiously enough, also based in NYC called The Plungers, The Spunks and Gelatine.

The band continues to perform, but on a limited basis.