NORTH COUNTYNORTH COUNTY — About five miles north of Escondido, just east of Interstate 15 and off Champagne Boulevard, the resort founded by iconic television personality and big band leader Lawrence ...

BREA – Norma Zimmer, known as the “Champagne Lady” on TV’s “The Lawrence Welk Show,” has died. She was 87. She died Tuesday in her home in Lake Park Brea, a mobile-home community. Zimmer, who ...

A guitar player born and raised in Adams, N.D., was in high demand, and played backup to many of this country's lead singers and musicians of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Neil LeVang had the ability to ...

Norma Zimmer, internationally known as the Champagne Lady on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” died Tuesday at her home in Brea, Calif. She was 87. Zimmer, a 5-foot-2-inch blonde, was a featured soloist on ...

Carol Knish of Munster has proven she can polka with the best of them. It's been nearly a decade since a touring tribute to the legendary Lawrence Welk waltzed anywhere near our readership. In October ...

Several cast members of “The Lawrence Welk Show” will share behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running musical variety series tonight at the Paley Center For Media in Beverly Hills. Anacani, ...

The Lawrence Welk Resort just north of Escondido can be a reviving getaway in San Diego’s backyard. Surrounded by green hillsides sprinkled with boulders, the secluded location offers serene views and ...

“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 ...

Lawrence Welk was born May 11, 1903, in Strasburg, N.D., about a 70-mile drive southeast from Bismarck. The sixth of eight children, his parents were part of the wave of Germans from Russia who moved ...

The pre-Beatles era, 1960-1963, had some odd singles ascend to the number one position on the Billboard Magazine Pop Singles Chart. In retrospect, none may have been odder than “Calcutta” by Lawrence ...