I remember the Strat snd Tele solos when they would stand up and play them. Him and the other guitar player were the best. Floren played polkas and popular tunes of bygone days in America. I watched Lawrence Welk Show every Sunday night with my parents. * Also playing in Baltimore: Jim Roberts, veteran concert tenor, Floren's "big band" 13-piece orchestra, clarinetist Henry Cuesta and marimba player Jack Imel. accordionist on the durable Lawrence Welk Show, Myron Floren (19192005) perhaps. Fascinated by Jo Ann Castles pianistics on the Lawrence Welk show.
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Spent almost a decade overseas, played with Lionel Hampton's group before Welk signed him, more recently played in the movie "Tap" and did stints with Tony Martin, Barbara McNair and the Gene Krupa Band. Johnny Hodges has spent a lifetime playing piano in theme parks and pizza parlors. * Arthur Duncan: longtime singer and dancer, left Pasadena City College to "see what this show business was all about" and never returned, has performed in nightclubs and on TV since. Played 52nd Street jam sessions in New York with such jazz stars as Sid Catlett, Billie Holiday, J.C. * Barney Liddell: veteran pop and jazz trombone star, joined Welk in 1948 after wartime service. Boylan left the show in 1967 to be married to Greg Dixon, came back occasionally to dance with Burgess and now teaches dance near Denver.
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Robert Howard Ralston (born July 2, 1938, in Upland, California) is an American pianist and organist who performed on televisions The Lawrence Welk Show from 1963 until 1982, when the series ended.
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Prior to joining Lawrence Welk's orchestra way back in 1934, he played with the Bill Klitz and Harry Turner bands plus he also taught piano as well. Not to be confused with Robert Ralston (17611836), Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist.
One of the most successful and fondly-remembered shows in TV history, 'The Lawrence Welk Show' featured musical numbers and skits, with host Welk leading the band. MORE BIOS OF YOUR WELK STARS: JERRY BURKE organist and pianist was born in Marshalltown, Iowa on July 26, 1911. Lawrence Welk, (born March 11, 1903, Strasburg, N.D., U.S.died May 17, 1992, Santa Monica, Calif.), American bandleader and accordion player, whose effervescent brand of champagne music was featured for more than 30 years on his successful show, one of the longest-running programs on television (195571). Is a regular in theater-in-the-round and nightclub shows and a Disney spokesman. The Lawrence Welk Show: With Lawrence Welk, Myron Floren, Dick Dale, Jimmy Roberts. A full-time Disney Mousketeer for four years, Burgess spent two decades on the Welk show, once with Boylan beat 11,000 others in a national dance contest. Kathie Lee outed him in her autobiography when she wrote about her first husband, who was gay and 'lived with a gay performer on the Lawrence Welk Show.' I dont know if there were any other gays on the show, but piano player Bob Ralston was married to the harshest looking Dutch lady you ever saw. 2.24 75 Lawrence Welks Top Tunes and New Talent 17Mar1958 ABC Mon Boston Globe Host Lawrence Welk Highlights: Irish tenor Danny Tyrell and a grade school dance group from Our Lady of Peace School, Sepulveda, California. * Bobby Burgess and Barbara Boylan: a dancing duo on and off since they met in dancing class at 13. Host Lawrence Welk Highlights: Harmonica player Eddie Laine.
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