The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Lawrence Welk, one of the nation's foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a 1939 film clip that shows Lois Best Herman singing and smiling next to a very young Lawrence Welk as his orchestra plays on. "You see her natural personality on the video. That was my mom," ...

Singer Guy Hovis, who rose to fame performing alongside his former wife Ralna English on The Lawrence Welk Show, has died. He was 84. English, 83, announced news of Hovis’s death on Facebook, writing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A two-photo collage of Guy Hovis. Guy Hovis, the beloved singer best known for his many appearances on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” ...

Guy and Ralna, one of the most popular singing couples associated with the iconic, long-running television series 'The Lawrence Welk Show' since 1969, continue to entertain more than three million ...