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6 unusual facts about Lawrence Welk


Della Gould Emmons

Later he toured the Midwest in a fleet of white buses with his nine performing children, "Jay Gould's Million Dollar Circus." Documents also show that he gave Lawrence Welk of TV fame one of his first jobs as an accordion player.

Go! You Packers! Go!

The rights to "Go! You Packers! Go!" were at one point owned by Lawrence Welk, who also recorded a version of the song.

Green Tambourine

Lawrence Welk covered the song and his version appeared on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

Helen Steiner Rice

Her poems received wide exposure in the 1960s when several were read by Aladdin on the poetry segment of the Lawrence Welk television show.

KOSF

In earlier days, it simulcast its AM sister station of the same name, occasionally airing a stereo version of the Lawrence Welk show.

Larry Hooper

Born in Independence, Missouri and raised in Lebanon, Missouri, he joined the Welk band in 1948 when they were doing evening performances at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.


Anacani

After completing high school, Anacani's career took a new turn when she and her family went to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido, California, where she was discovered by bandleader Lawrence Welk himself.

Bobby Burgess

In 1961, while attending Long Beach State University, he and his childhood friend (and dancing partner) Barbara Boylan entered a Calcutta dance contest held by Lawrence Welk and his orchestra based on the hit song of the same name.

J-Men Forever

The Bug's first victims are square record moguls Lawrence Milk and Jive Davis, who are hypnotized or otherwise prodded into killing themselves, and 'Scream' Dorsey, whose car is simply taken over and then run off a cliff.

Joan O'Brien

Lawrence Welk hired O'Brien as a one-week replacement for his champagne lady Alice Lon in July 1959.

Ken Delo

His introduction to Lawrence Welk came from Arthur Duncan, the show's featured tap dancer who had known Delo from their days in Australia.

Mineola, Iowa

The Palisades featured a variety of famous performers, including the Lloyd Hunter Orchestra of North Omaha, Nebraska, and Lawrence Welk, along with movies, bingo, and school programs with a saloon and lunchroom in front.

Radio Recorders

For many years, Lawrence Welk pre-recorded the music for his popular television show, becoming the most important client; in addition, in the 1960s and 1970s Annex mastered for such labels as Uni Records, Dot Records and Ranwood Records, as well as cutting early pressings of Barbra Streisand's hit single "The Way We Were." The Annex's location now houses The Record Plant Studios.


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Anacani

She also did duets with fellow Welk star Tanya Falan, toured with rest of the music makers on the road and released an album called Lawrence Welk presents Anacani through Ranwood Records and she serves as the Latino spokesman for Yuban Coffee.

Bobby Burgess

Burgess shared with Mary Lou Metzger as host of the wraparound segments on The Lawrence Welk Show's PBS reruns in 2010.

Kathy Sullivan

Kathie Sullivan, American gospel singer and performer on the Lawrence Welk Show

The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka

The two shows mentioned in the title and throughout the song—Hee Haw, a CBS series on which Clark was a co-host; and The Lawrence Welk Show, which aired on ABC—were among those shows canceled by their networks in 1971 as part of the rural purge; demographics (a rural audience for Hee Haw, an elderly-leaning audience for Lawrence Welk) was the most cited reason.