And a one, and a two...
Nevermind the saccharine-sweet and, sometimes just plain obnoxious skits; the Lawrence Welk Show ran nationally on ABC for nearly 28 years. Welk\u2019s bandleading style and arrangement lead to the term \u201cchampagne music\u201d, which is what he called his orchestra. Here they are with, ahem, If You Can't Get A Drum With A Boom, Boom, Boom. Get A Tuba With An Oom-pah-pah.
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\nWelk\u2019s famous accent actually embarrassed him in early years, prompting him to have someone else introduce musical numbers. But the public seemed to love the \u201cand-a-one, and a-two\u201ds and the like. It might have surprised said public that Welk was born in\u2026South Dakota. Strasburg, actually, in a community of Germans from Russia, a name given to ethnic Germans who left the Russian Empire.
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\nWant to see the very first pilot of the Lawrence Welk show? Go to Soundbeat.org right now.