Welk in a sentence

After Welk and his band went on television, she appeared as a guest on the show, where she sang Latin American songs and favorites that were popular when she was traveling with the Welk band.

From the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, the Welk Group was known as "Teleklew," in which tele stood for television and klew was Welk spelled backwards.

He also owned the adjacent 16-story luxury apartment building at 1221 Ocean Ave., citation "The Lawrence Welk Champagne Towers," and Welk made his personal residence in the complex.

One of his sons, Lawrence Welk Jr., married fellow Lawrence Welk Show performer Tanya Falan ; they later divorced.

Harnick’s words to “Sunrise, Sunset,” a bittersweet wedding song, quickly became a hallmark of Jewish life cycle events — but the song was also so thoroughly embraced by non-Jews that it even featured in a Lawrence Welk Easter special.

Act Four begins with Lawrence Welk’s retirement in 1982 and takes the audience into the present time of a national resurgence of patriotism.

Nevadans might ask why they were on the hook for the Lawrence Welk museum in North Dakota or the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska.

In preparation, Welk formed his own production company and continued airing the show over some ABC affiliates.

Norma Zimmer (from left), Lawrence Welk and Tom Netherton.

While we were waiting for the doors to open, we walked around and found a small wall garden with a statue of Lawrence Welk.

As The Lawrence Welk Show fit into this category, ABC ended its run in 1971.

As Welk's show mainly targeted older viewers, they seldom played recent music that the audience might not be familiar with.

During its first year on the air, the Welk hour instituted several regular features.

During one show, Welk brought a cameraman out to dance with one of the women and took over the camera himself.

In 2015, Welk Music Group sold the Vanguard and Sugar Hill labels to Concord Bicycle Music while retaining ownership of the Ranwood catalog.

In addition, he owned a restaurant and club in Escondido where he filmed lead-ins for reruns of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Like Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk was picked up for syndication in the fall of 1971, and there were some markets where the same station aired both programs.

Other niche programs such as The Lawrence Welk Show (which targeted older audiences) and Soul Train (which targeted black audiences) also rose to prominence in syndication during the era.

Post-Intelligencer obituary Despite its staid reputation, The Lawrence Welk Show nonetheless did keep up with the times and never limited itself strictly to big-band era music.

Recordings In addition to the above-mentioned "Spiked Beer", Welk's territory band made occasional trips to Richmond, Indiana and to Grafton, Wisconsin to record a handful of sessions for the Gennett and Paramount companies.