Word: welk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken many forms. Bach wrote a good bit of it in one style; Victor Herbert ground out much of it in another. But most obnoxious of all are the mindless whinings that seep out of loudspeakers as "background music." Within this broad category are several subdivisions: airport music, Lawrence Welk music, dentist office music, Waldorf music...
...Lawrence Welk Show (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). An-a-one, an-a-two, an-a-three, an-a-four, an-a-five, an-a-six, an-a-seven, an-a-eight years of Welk-schmerz on TV are celebrated tonight by Lawrence and all the Gang...
...ENTERTAINMENT will range from the Old Vic and the Philadelphia Symphony to Lawrence Welk and Elvis Presley. A $2,000,000 midway, unhappily called "The Gayway." will provide thrills, rides and freak shows. And of course the fair will have its undraped girls, in a "Las Vegas-type revue" to be produced by one Gracie Hansen, an entrepreneuse who promises "a daring show with some nudity, but all in good taste." Mrs. Hansen admits, however, that her last production, in a Cascade Mountains logging town, proved "too adult for the P.T.A...
After-dinner musicales in the East Room of the White House have been rather distressing in recent years. During the Eisenhower occupancy there were the schmalzy tunes of Hildegarde and Lawrence Welk. Before that, Oscar Levant played for company, but in the family circle there were the shaky soprano of Margaret Truman and her father's ricki-tick piano. Going back to the F.D.R. years, there was Kate Smith. Last week the Kennedys changed all that, with an evening of chamber music that sent shards of rapture through the world of serious music...
Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...