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

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 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.

Originally performed on Freberg's CBS Radio series, the single spoofed the mediocre musicianship among some of Welk's musicians ( including Welk himself ).

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

Mike Dosch, an established musician from Strasburg, ND ( Lawrence Welk's hometown ) was featured on several of the live shows and had his own late-night program of organ music for many years.

Ranwood acquired Welk's Coral Records and Dot Records catalog for reissue on Ranwood.

Most of Welk's recorded musical output from that point on was released on the Ranwood label.

Lawrence Welk's appearance at the Concord Pavilion on June 13, 1982 was billed as his farewell performance.

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.

" When he was asked about his ancestry, he would always reply " Alsace-Lorraine, Germany ," from where his forebears had emigrated to Russia ( and which, at the time of Welk's birth in 1903, had become part of the German Empire ).

Welk's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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 band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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" The film is noteworthy for its invocation of silent film techniques and an insistence on the jump-cut for effect.

While some recent scholars have questioned the existence of a large-scale Domitian persecution, others believe that Domitian's insistence on being treated as a god may have been a source of friction between the Church and Rome.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

Leon Trotsky at first supported the Mensheviks, but left them in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

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Mainly on the insistence of the Army, many independent churches were tolerated, although everyone still had to pay tithes to the established church.

In 2011, while waiting for certification, several service members were discharged under DADT at their own insistence, until July 6 when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals re-instated Judge Phillips ' injunction barring further enforcement of the U. S. military's ban on openly gay service members.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

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His insistence on recognition as such by the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1489 resulted in the granting of this recognition in 1514 by Emperor Maximilian I to Vasili III.

After the 2010 season, the Marlins continued their string of dealing players when their contracts became too much to bear, dealing power-hitting second basemen Dan Uggla to the Atlanta Braves after his insistence on an extra year in his possible contract extension went nowhere with the front office.

The Hosken Report, in particular, was criticized for its alleged ethnocentrism, its negative statements about African society, and its insistence on Western intervention.