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Lawrence Welk

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Lawrence Welk (1903–1992) was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. The program was known for its light and family-friendly style, and the easy listening music featured became known as "champagne music" to his radio, television, and live-performance audiences. Welk, a native of North Dakota who was born to German immigrants from Russia, began his career as a bandleader in the 1920s in the Great Plains. He gradually became more known throughout the country due to recordings and radio performances, and he and his orchestra were based in Chicago in the 1940s, where they had a standing residency at the Trianon Ballroom. By the start of the next decade, Welk relocated to Los Angeles and began hosting his eponymous television show, first on local television, before going national when the show was picked up by ABC in 1955. The show's popularity held through the following years, and with its focus on inoffensive entertainment, it was embraced by conservative audiences as an antidote to the counterculture of the 1960s.
  1. Lawrence Welk ) Young At Heart ) date is unknown (MCA Living Sound US)
    26:36
  2. Lawrence Welk ) Winchester Cathedral ) 1966 (Dot Records US)
    24:55
  3. Lawrence Welk ) Lawrence Welk's Hits Of Our Time ) 1967 (Dot Records US)
    26:39
  4. Lawrence Welk ) 200 Years of American Music ) 1975 (2LP Ranwood US)
    1:09:12
  5. Lawrence Welk ) Live At Lake Tahoe ) 1979 (2LP Ranwood US)
    1:08:56