Bandleader Lawrence Welk achieved fame with his bubbly “Champagne music” and beloved variety TV show — but the star’s grandson insisted his goal wasn’t to become a household name. “He didn’t care ...

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.

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2002, file photo Edna Schwab walks toward the front door of the Lawrence Welk farm house in Strasburg, N.D., where Welk taught himself to play accordion. The State Historical ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Lawrence Welk has been dead for 21 years, but the Escondido resort that bears the TV bandleader’s name keeps his legacy alive through the tireless work of 50-year employee Adriene ...

Lawrence Welk's niece recalls happy days at the family home in Strasburg, N.D. Fern Welk was a nurse and a nutritionist and a ferocious protector of her husband's diet, but when he came home to ...

When he died in 1993, Lawrence Welk was the second-richest entertainer in America. In order to acquire his wealth, Welk spent many years barely making a living while striving to become an appreciated ...

FARGO — Prairie Public is celebrating one of North Dakota’s most beloved sons with a new documentary about bandleader and television icon Lawrence Welk. “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy” ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The grandsons of the late Lawrence Welk, who is well known as the host of the popular Lawrence Welk show, are speaking out after taking legal action ...

A biography of bandleader Lawrence Welk penned by University of Saint Francis President Lance Richey has won him an Independent Press Award. Richey’s three-volume recounting of the life of the man ...

Phil Gardener remembers the excitement when Lawrence Welk and his Hotsy Totsy Boys played at Bernard's Dance Hall just south of Broken Bow, Neb., in the 1930s. As we reported earlier, we visited ...