Before him lay a tremendous pilgrimage, an unending succession of one night stands throughout the territory that lies between the Great Lakes and the Rockies. He had no working English he could not read music in his pocket were three one‐dollar bills. On the morning of his 21st birthday, with the accordion he had obtained by four years of indentured labor to his father, he left the family to whom he was devoted to seek his musical fortune. As a boy who dis liked farming and was “obsessed with music,” he often played the ac cordion-polkas, schottisches, popu lar tunes-at the wedding feasts and name‐day festivities that were the principal diversions of this cheerless region. There he was born in 1903 into a German‐speak ing community in a bleak section of the Middle Border. Welk tells us in “Wunnerful, Wunnerful!” go all the way back to Strasburg, N. Nixon for manipulating by his schemes what he calls the silent majority. Mencken ever had about what he called, in his furious despair, the Boobus Americanus, and every hope of Mr. Taken altogether the production would confirm every horrid fear that H.
Beneath the rather wooden baton is a rod that is ab solutely iron. Ev ery note, pleasantry, girl and boy in time, in place. It is all very richly mounted-the music stands and even the folk sing ers glisten- and all is smoothly dovetailed within the game plan. Welk passes out news of the family -bad back, new baby-and dances a few steps with ladies in the studio audience.
There are also young wom en who are as dislocating to the senses as the girl next door. Welk calls his musical family, and thinks of as his boys are very clean cut men. It may be that the Champagne Music is to Louis Arm strong as Cliquot Club is to Veuve Cliquot and that the sentiment stirred up is to the heyday of the blood as Geritol, which sponsors the exercise, is to a physician's prescrip tion. There are polkas and tap dances and horseplay with the instruments and songs for every occasion. Patrick and the Armed Forces to Mother's Day. Welk with his big band touches all bases from St. For many a jejune moon he has been right on target. Welk shoots away from the hippie- and other current distractions- straight to the heartland. Welk thinks of in genuine affection as “wonderful people.” They are, as he often says, the hard working, God‐fearing, home‐loving, law‐abiding, beer‐drinking “respec table folks.” In practicing his art Mr. Those watching and listening are what Mr. During this hour there is some smoke that gets in your eyes, some of her laughter across a crowd ed room and some of the second wind supposed to blow as the days dwindle down. Lawrence Welk and his Cham pagne Music Makers play familiar tunes on television on Saturday nights.
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