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Lawrence Welk Wiki Biography

• Lawrence Welk was born on 11 March 1903 in The Bronx, New York City, USA, and was a singer, television host, and impresario, best known in the world as the host of his own show, The Lawrence Welk Show, which aired from 1955 to 1982. 
• Lawrence died in May 1992. 
• Have you ever wondered how wealthy Lawrence Welk was when he died? 
• According to authoritative sources, Lawrence’s net worth was reported to be as high as $8 million, a sum he acquired through his prosperous career in the entertainment industry. 
• Lawrence was of German and Ukrainian descent, as his parents were refugees living in Strasburg, North Dakota. 
• Lawrence was the third youngest of eight children born to Ludwig and Christian Welk. 
• Growing up poor at a family farm, Lawrence left school to support his family. 
• As he grew older, he fell in love with music and was able to convince his father to give him an accordion, but on the condition that Lawrence would work on the farm until 21 and give his father all the money, he would have earned. 
• When he was 21 years old, Lawrence left the family home and proudly started to pursue a career in music. 
• He played with the major North and South Dakota bands at the beginning, before finally forming a band of his own. 
• In the 1930s, he became more confident in his abilities and led his own band performing throughout the United States. 
• Little by little, his name became increasingly popular in the music scene, mainly in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas, but in the 1940s he and his band were frequent guests at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago and later at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. 
• Lawrence started his own record label named Randy Wood’s Ranwood Records, from which he released most of his albums. 
• Lawrence released more than 50 singles during his musical career, many of which boosted his success and net worth. 
• Some of the most successful ones include “I Won’t Tell a Soul,” which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 list, “The Moon Is a Silver Dollar” No. 7, “Don’t Sweetheart Me” No. 2, “Oh Happy Day,” which was on No. 5, “Calcutta,” a chart-top instrument, and “Southtown, USA,” which was his last album. 
• In recognition of his good career and contribution to both television and music, Lawrence won several awards, including two Hollywood Walk of Fame stars, and was introduced to the International Polka Music Hall of Fame in 1994, among several other awards. 
• Lawrence’s net worth has benefited from his career as a businessman, investing in a number of sectors and businesses, including real estate and music publishing, among others. 
• Lawrence died at his home, at the age of 89, from bronchopneumonia, leaving behind his 71-year-old wife, Fern Veronica Renner, and their three children. 
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Lawrence Welk Trademarks

1. “An-a one, an-a two.”
2. Theme song: “Champagne Time” (1970 – 1982)
3. Theme song: “Bubbles in the Wine” (1955 – 1970)

Lawrence Welk Quotes

• We cater to the people who want a melody as it was originally written. Our audiences want songs that tell a story. We don’t want any song with questionable moral standards.

Lawrence Welk Important Facts

• He is a first cousin, once removed, of Montana governor Brian Schweitzer. Lawrence’s mother, Christiana Schwahn, was the sister of Brian’s paternal grandmother, Franziska Schwahn.
• Ex-father-in-law of Tanya Welk.
• Co-founder (with Randall Wood, former owner of Dot Records) of Ranwood Records in 1967.
• He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6613 Hollywood Boulevard and for Television at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• Dropped out of school in the fourth grade to work on the family farm. At age 21, he left home to make his way in the music business.
• Registered his car with a vanity license plate that read “A1 AN A2”.
• His show was initially cancelled by ABC-TV in 1971, after 17 years as a Saturday night perennial on the network, because of a question of viewer demographics. Advertisers and networks were convinced that they should gear their shows to younger, urban audiences, who were thought to have the buying power, and Welk’s audience was simply considered too old. In what was then considered a bold move, Welk began producing shows for first-run syndication, and by the start of the 1971 fall season he was back on the air, where he remained until he retired eleven years later. Ironically, many of the stations that carried his show were local ABC affiliates.
• Parents, Ludwig and Christina Welk, emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine via Russia to Strasburg, North Dakota, where Lawrence was born.
• A common misconception is that Welk did not learn English until he was 21. In fact, he began learning English as soon as he started school. The part of North Dakota where he lived had been settled largely by Germans from Russia; even his teachers spoke English as a second language.
• In the early 1990s, the U.S. Congress refused federal funding to restore Welk’s boyhood home in Strasburg, N.D., as a museum. His many still loyal fans, hearing of this, donated the money themselves, and to this day the Welk Home and Museum has been restored and maintained entirely by private funds.
• Served as his own producer for most of his years on TV, via Teleklew Productions. The name was made up of “tele” for television and “klew” was Welk spelled backwards.
• Founder of the still-thriving Lawrence Welk Resort and Country Club in Escondido, California.
• A good judge of talent, Welk’s discoveries included Lynn Anderson and Pete Fountain, both of whom got their starts with his band.
• Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1989.
• Recorded prolifically before and during his TV years, primarily for Columbia, Coral, Dot and Ranwood, scoring a #1 single and album with “Calcutta” in 1961.
• Welk’s show was originaly entitled “The Dodge Dancing Party,” after his first national sponsor. His longest-lasting sponsors were two over-the-counter medicines, Geritol and Serutan (“That’s ‘nature’s,’ spelled backwards!”).
• Welk’s son, Larry Welk (aka Lawrence Welk Jr), is owner/operator of the “Welk Resort” in Branson, Missouri.
• Welk’s grandson, Larry Welk (aka Lawrence Welk III), is an airborne traffic and breaking news reporter in “Sky Nine” helicopter for KCAL-TV, Ch 9, Los Angeles.

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