Lawrence Welk was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the television program The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large audience of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music".
Lynn Rene Anderson, was an American country singer and television personality. Her signature recording crossover hit, "Rose Garden," was a number one hit in the United States and internationally. She had five number one and 18 Top-10 hit singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded as one of country music's most significant performers.
The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for four years, from 1951 to 1955, then nationally for another 16 years on ABC from 1955 to 1971, followed by 11 years in first-run syndication from 1971 to 1982. Repeat episodes are broadcast in the United States by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations. These airings incorporate an original program—usually, a color broadcast from 1965 to 1982—in its entirety. In place of the commercials, newer performance and interview clips from the original stars and/or a family member of the performers are included; these clips are occasionally updated.
The Lennon Sisters are an American vocal group initially made up of four sisters from a family that had seven sisters in all and five brothers. The original quartet consisted of Dianne, Peggy, Kathy, and Janet. All 12 Lennon children were born in Los Angeles, California.
Myron Floren was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1980. Floren came to prominence primarily from his regular appearances on the weekly television series in which Lawrence Welk dubbed him as "the happy Norwegian," which was also attributed to Peter Friello.
Ralna Eve English is an American-born singer from Haskell, Texas. She gained fame as half of the husband-and-wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis, both of whom were featured performers on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Jimmy Roberts was an American tenor singer. He was a featured performer on the TV variety program The Lawrence Welk Show during its entire broadcast run from 1955 to 1982.
"Anacani" María Consuelo Castillo-López y Cantor-Montoya is a Mexican singer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program.
Norma Zimmer was an American vocalist, best remembered for her 22-year tenure as Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Robert Wilkie "Bobby" Burgess is an American dancer and singer. He was one of the original Mouseketeers. Later, he was a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Louis van Amstel is a Dutch-American ballroom dance champion, professional dancer, and choreographer who appears on the U.S. reality television series Dancing with the Stars. He is the creator of the popular dance fitness program LaBlast.
Kym Herjavec is an Australian professional ballroom dancer and television performer who appeared in the first three seasons of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, before moving to the U.S. version of the franchise from 2006 to 2015. Johnson returned as a professional to the U.S. series in 2017 for its 24th season. She also served as a judge on the Australian version of the show from 2013 to 2015. She is married to Robert Herjavec.
Barbara Boylan is an American dancer and former television personality who was featured on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1961 to 1967, and briefly for a few months in 1979.
The Aragon Ballroom on Lick Pier in the Ocean Park district of Santa Monica, California, was a social-dance venue opened under the Aragon name in March 1942 by dance promoter Harry Schooler.
Jayne Walton Rosen was an American entertainer, singer and actress, who worked as Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady from 1940 until 1945.
Jillian La Valette is a professional ballroom dancer and teacher. With her dance partner James Arnell she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship six times between 1955 and 1965.
Helen Ramsay is an American singer and entertainer. She is best known for being in the Lawrence Welk group "The Champagne Ladies" from 1947 to 1949, before being replaced by Roberta Linn.
Florence Walton was a vaudeville dancer and cabaret performer in the 1910s and '20s.
Casa Loma Ballroom is a historic dance hall in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located at 3354 Iowa Avenue in the city's Gravois Park neighborhood.
