Lawrence Welk was born in 1903 in Strasburg, North Dakota. His TV show started on a local L.A. station in 1951 and ended on PBS in 1982. After that, reruns continued to be shown on PBS hosted by Welk and after his death in 1992, by former cast members.
Category Archives: Music
Turn Turn Turn
The lyrics to Pete Seeger‘s Turn Turn Turn come from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In 1965, The Byrds version of the song topped the charts.
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles, performed by The Crests, became a doo-wop hit in 1958. The song’s sentimentalism is ideal for a punk guitar to rip apart.
Hanah Jon Taylor
In the 1980s, the superb flute and saxophone player Hanah Jon Taylor performed regularly at The Cove and the Hotel Del Prado in Hyde Park. In the 1990s he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where in 2019 he opened Cafe Coda.
I want to tell you
When we remember the past, sometimes we must confront behaviors that now make us cringe.
Paul Mason Fotsch 