It's Wunnerful Down Here in Tex-is!
Thu, 03/26/2020 - 4:00am
A plaque in the lobby of the Lawrence Welk Museum proclaims: “A total of 10,300,000,000 people! (That’s 10.3 BILLION!) have tuned in” to the TV show. Welk started his first TV show in 1951, at the age of 48. He had been performing since he was a teenager. Anyone interested in music has heard of the Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, the Crosby Brothers, all these Big Band orchestra leaders who were contemporaries of Welk.
