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Welk and audience
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.
In 1982, both he and Rosemary appeared in the audience of The Lawrence Welk Show.
If the number was more of a dance tune, Welk would frequently dance with ladies from the audience, for which he wh became somewhat known.
These singers were bound by an unofficial set of morals ( artistic and personal ) dictated by Welk, and if he believed the audience did not find them wholesome enough, they would be fired.

Welk and would
Whenever the orchestra played a polka or waltz, Welk himself would dance with the band's female vocalist, the " Champagne Lady.
Welk himself was indifferent to the tune, but his musical director, George Cates, said that if Welk did not wish to record the song, he ( Cates ) would.
After some debate, Anakin decided that Lomi Plo and Welk should join them, although Zekk predicted that they would be double-crossed by the Dark Jedi.
Soul Train was part of a national trend toward syndicated music-oriented programs targeted at niche audiences ; two other syndicated series ( Hee Haw for country music, and The Lawrence Welk Show for traditional music ) also entered syndication in 1971 and would go on to have long runs.
Each week, Welk would introduce the theme of the show, which usually inspired joyous singing and / or patriotic fervor.
Welk frequently had performers sing and play standards from the big band era and the first half of the 20th century ( Welk had a particular admiration for contemporaries Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer and similar composers ), although the show's repertoire was in reality much broader and would often include pop songs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as well as country music, patriotic music, and religious music, especially if it was thought to appeal to older listeners ( and, as Welk stated in 1956, " as long as it's done in the champagne style ").
A further reason was a dispute over what kind of songs she would be singing, and since Welk insisted on playing what he felt his audiences wanted to hear, generally older " standards ", she rebelled against such restrictions.
Welk wished to announce her age on the air, but she informed him that revealing her actual age publicly would jeopardize her job as an underage Las Vegas bar and nightclub entertainer.

Welk and such
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.
Welk enjoyed playing golf, which he first took up in the late 1950s, and was often a regular at many celebrity pro-ams such as the Bob Hope Desert Classic.
For many years after that, Geritol was largely marketed on television programs that appealed primarily to older viewers, such as The Lawrence Welk Show, What's My Line ?, Hee Haw, and Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour.
Welk Music Group revitalized the label, reissuing much of its extensive folk and popular music back catalogue ( a good deal of which had been out of print for several years ) on CD, as well as signing a number of new artists ( such as Matt Nathanson, Mindy Smith, Greg Laswell, and Trevor Hall ) along with established musicians ( such as Merle Haggard, John Fogerty, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Shawn Mullins, and Linda Ronstadt ).
During the summers of 1972-77, Daugherty played Hammond organ at county fairs across the Midwest for various popular music stars such as Bobby Vinton, Boots Randolph, Pee Wee King, and members of The Lawrence Welk Show.
ABC also was looking for younger audiences, and in May 1971 cancelled shows that skewed toward rural viewers ( such as The Johnny Cash Show ) or older viewers ( Make Room for Granddaddy and The Lawrence Welk Show ).
This 750 seat showroom, whose opening act was comedian Red Skelton, made entertainment a priority at Harrah's and saw luminaries such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne, Bob Dylan, The Supremes, Donna Summer, Peggy Lee, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Dolly Parton, Sergio Franchi, Joan Rivers, Liza Minnelli, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Carol Burnett, Danny Thomas, Dean Martin, Jimmy Durante, Harry Belafonte, Sarah Vaughan, Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Gobel, Wayne Newton, Sonny & Cher, Phyllis Hyman, Lawrence Welk, Bill Cosby, and Sammy Davis, Jr., among others.
Other versions of " Nadia's Theme " have been recorded, including easy listening renditions by such artists as Ronnie Aldrich, Ray Conniff, Ferrante & Teicher, the orchestra of The Lawrence Welk Show, and James Galway ; a semi-rock version by The Ventures ; and David Hasselhoff's vocal rendition, which incorporated De Vorzon's and Botkin Jr .' s lyrics, for his 1997 album Lovin ' Feelings.

Welk and performances
Welk was not pleased by the record, built around satirical out-of-tune performances and an out-of-control " bubble machine " that sent the entire Aragon Ballroom out to sea.

Welk and on
Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the Clarinet Polka entitled " Disco Accordion ".
( 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.
In 1996, Welk was ranked # 43 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Welk decided on a career in music and persuaded his father to buy a mail-order accordion for $ 400 ( equivalent to $ as of ).
Welk collaborated with Western artist Red Foley to record a version of Spade Cooley's " Shame on You " in 1945.
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.
During its first year on the air, the Welk hour instituted several regular features.
After Welk and his band went on television, she appeared as a guest on the show, where she sang Latin American songs and favorites that were popular when she was traveling with the Welk band.
Welk also reserved one number for himself to solo on his accordion.
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.
In fact, Welk headlined two weekly prime-time shows on ABC for three years.
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.
A resort community developed by Welk and promoted heavily by him on the show is named for him.
His organization, The Welk Group, consists of: his resort communities in Branson and Escondido ; Welk Syndication, which broadcasts the show on public television ; and the Welk Music Group, which operates record labels Sugar Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood.
* Myron Floren-Accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show

Welk and show
Musical satirist Stan Freberg and his frequent collaborator, arranger Billy May, recorded a scathing 1957 parody of the Welk TV show titled " Wun ' erful!
During one show, Welk brought a cameraman out to dance with one of the women and took over the camera himself.
Welk thanked ABC and the sponsors at the end of the last network show.
After retiring from his show and from the road in 1982, Welk continued to air reruns of his shows, which were repackaged first for syndication and, starting in 1986, for public television.
The repackaged shows are broadcast at roughly the same Saturday-night time slot as the original ABC shows, and special longer Welk show rebroadcasts are often shown during individual stations ' fund-raising periods.
* The Lawrence Welk Show, television show hosted by Lawrence Welk
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 salsa-inspired track was ironic ; Chatelaine, a women's magazine, once chose lang as its " Woman of the Year ," and the song's video depicted lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colors and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show.
In 1969, as her popularity grew, she left the Welk show in favor of sporadic guest appearances.
Among the stars, Ann-Margret, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Johnny Carson, Petula Clark, Eva Gabor, Helen Hayes, Dean Martin, Eve McVeagh, Vincent Price, Tony Randall, Buddy Rich, Joan Rivers, Ginger Rogers, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas, Lawrence Welk, Flip Wilson, Shelley Winters and Patty Andrews of The Andrews Sisters all appeared during the run of the show.
The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk.
When the show was canceled by the head of programming there, Welk formed his own production company and continued airing the show, on independent stations and, often during non-prime time, also on some of the ABC affiliates on which he had previously appeared as well as some stations affiliated with other networks.

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