When the Jazz Arts Group Big Band takes the stage this afternoon to play music from Lawrence Welk's TV show, the tunes will be a blast from the past, not only for the audience but also the players.

Lawrence Welk, one of the nation's foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his 'champagne music” to Cedar Rapids four times during his long career. Welk was born in 1903 in Strasburg ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born March 18th, 1934, singer Charley Pride, left his birthplace of Sledge, Mississippi, at age 16 and later became one of the most successful country artists of all time. But that wasn’t exactly what ...

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.