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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norma Zimmer, the "Champagne Lady" of TV's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. She was 87. Ms. Zimmer died Tuesday at her home in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norma Zimmer, the "Champagne Lady" of TV's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. She was 87. Zimmer died ...

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 ...

Mickey McMahan, 77, a trumpet player with big-band leaders Lawrence Welk, Les Brown and others, died June 11 at his home in Van Nuys of neuropathy and an unrelated blood disease, his stepson Steve ...