Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welkwas an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fansas "champagne music"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth11 March 1903
CountryUnited States of America
music home joy
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
father musical pumps
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
music pittsburgh hospitality
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
music orchestra makers
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
I just had an idea that went right over my head.
Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
women nice clean
I like clean ladies and nice ladies.
talking down-and conversation
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
real people crowds
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
bad-day long world
You know, it's a long world.
joy able use
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
voice quality attributes
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.