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.

For all the talk in “The Music Man” of big brass bands and boatloads of trombones, what’s remarkable about this never-gets-old show is the way some of its best musical moments spring from the sparest ...

2002-05-18 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- George Cates, composer, arranger, conductor and record producer who began playing tenor sax in various bands and later became musical director of "The Lawrence ...

“The Lawrence Welk Show,” which ran for more than a quarter of a century and often featured accordion music from the late Myron Floren, was the focus of a special event held Friday at the Yorkville ...

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 ...

Soon after he bought his first accordion, his father said: 'Accordion playing is all right for fun, Lawrence. But it’s not a life’s work... You’d better start thinking more about the farm.' Lawrence ...

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 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Pop the cork and start the bubble machine: North Dakota has agreed to buy the boyhood home of Lawrence Welk, the maestro of “champagne music” and the one of the state’s most famous ...

The Miracles only hit #1 once during the entire time Smokey Robinson led the group. That was in 1970, when "The Tears Of A Clown," which they'd recorded four years earlier, finally made its ascent.

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 ...