Lawrence Welk
““Wunfeful, Wunerful"”
““AND I'M JUNICE””
Lawrence Welk is a bandleader who appeals to the Bluehairs when he went off the air in 1982. Today, his show is the most watched show on PBS next to "Sesame Street" and "The News Hour".
Life of Lawrence Welk[edit | edit source]
Lawrence Welk was born in 1903 in Hitler, North Dakota which is near Bismarck and is the 3rd largest city in North Dakota. Both his parents were from Germany and they encouraged him to be as German as possible, but at the age of 21 he started to speak English which angered his parents. So Welk bought an accordion and he was reconsidered by his own family.
At that time, Welk would try to play in jazz bands, but they considered the accordion a lame instrument. Until he joined a Polka Jazz Band and once he was in the band...he took it over.
Welk would never get fame until 1955 when he would have a TV Show named after himself and it would be sponsored by Geritol. The show would end in 1982 and Welk would retire and 10 years later, he died.
But no fret Bluehairs...Lawrence Welk would be frozen alongside with Walt Disney and once he dies...Billy Gahram. These three guys are frozen so they can run for Presidency on the Republican side.
The Lawrence Welk Show[edit | edit source]
The Lawrence Welk Show aired in 1955 on ABC. The show had The Lennon Sisters, Bobby and Cissy, Myron Floren, Art Duncan, Alice Lon, Norma Zimmerman, The Irish Tenor, and The Meryl Sisters. Alice Lon was the first Champange Lady and was fired because not only she showed her legs, but she was making love to the trumpet player. The trumpet player got fired too, but Norma Zimmerman got hired in 1956.
When the show came in color in 1965, Lawrence Welk had a new set of sisters named The Meryl Sisters and though there were four, Junice was the one that stuck-out like a sore thumb. She had baby hands, a big forehead, and a raspy voice who would ad lib. Unfortunately, The Meryl Sisters sketches were mostly unused since many people never thought of Junice as a comfort character who would eat dead cats and put turkeys in the toilet.