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...unpublicized gold mine of show business. Not for everyone. The star of the fair circuit must be folksy, decent, no-putting-on-airs, and never, never step out of character. Williams is the circuit's ideal singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford its ideal comic, Liberace its favorite pianist, Lawrence Welk its ideal bandleader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Gold in Them Thar Hills | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...just like me. It restores me." If the weather and the season are right, he and George go fishing for bluegills on a lake on the farm, and on Saturday nights they sit in the comfortable Shuman parlor and watch Gunsmoke and Charlie's perennial favorite, Lawrence Welk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Born. To Peggy Lennon, 26, second oldest of Lawrence Welk's four bubbly Lennon Sisters, and Dick Cathcart, 40, the champagne orchestra's lead trumpeter: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...other show in NAFBRAT'S objectionable category seems to have been unfairly included. This is Broadside, which is condemned only because it is "devoid of depth." This makes little sense when set alongside NAFBRAT'S recommended category, which includes Ed Sullivan, My Favorite Martian, Lassie, Lawrence Welk, Kentucky Jones, Hollywood Palace and the Farmer's Daughter-all of which have a collective depth of just over 3/16th of an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watch Out for Children | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...LAWRENCE WELK SHOW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). 1955 was hardly a vintage year for this strictly domestic champagne, but bubbly Lawrence Welk is already celebrating his "tenth anniversary" - quick, before it goes flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 9, 1964 | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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