In May of 1992, he had contracted pneumonia. His apartment/suite/floor (?) Was on the 8th floor. His address was 1299 – in a building called the Wilshire Palisades, nicknamed the Champagne Towers. He lived on Ocean Avenue, in Santa Monica. They had a hit with, “The Lady in Blue Taught Me How To Pray.” Nuff said. They were his big act for most of the initial run. Welk was ultra conservative, and made sure his shows reflected only the highest of moral standards. He and his wife of 61 years, Fern, had one son and two daughters. After that, he did a few performances here and there, until he retired completely in 1989. It was shot at the Hollywood Palladium.Īfter that, he signed up more than 250 independent television stations in the U.S and Canada, and kept his show on for 11 more years.Īll in all, there were 1542 episodes, until it’s demise in 1982. In 1951 he appeared on a Los Angeles TV show, and became a hit. The Lawrence Welk Show ran on ABC from 1955 until 1972, when they dropped him.
He worked without much success, for 25 years. When he turned 21, he left the family home to try to make it as a musician. That’s where Lawrence was born.įor an interesting story about Lawrence’s birthplace, and his lack of interest in it, go to this link – on a very cool website called Roadside America. In 1892, they moved to the United States, and settled in Strasburg, North Dakota. His family then immigrated to Russia in 1878, to escape religious persecution. His parents were from Alsace-Lorraine, a region of present day France that once was part of Germany.
This guy made “wunnerful, wunnerful,” and “ah-one and ah-two” household expressions. I don’t regret it so much in retrospect, but at the time… No matter what was on television at the time – we had to watch him. I think it was because my grandmother was living with us, and she loved it. If they can’t hum it after we play it, it’s not for us.
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