Can you imagine inviting Madonna over for dinner? It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when people didn’t worship the ground celebrities walked on. In the immortal words of Lawrence Welk, it was ...

SHERMAN OAKS – Kenny Kotwitz sipped his drink and slipped back into an accordion memory 50 years in the making. He was just a teenager from Milwaukee, playing squeezebox in a combo and getting work ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norma Zimmer, the "Champagne Lady" of TV's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. She was 87. Zimmer died ...

Norma Zimmer, the "Champagne Lady" of TV's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. She was 87. Ms. Zimmer died Tuesday at her home in ...

Grandma only let me watch two TV shows in her upstairs lair. Not her stories; those soap operas were far too risque for a tyke such as I. No, these two mid-1960s programs were so radically different ...

When a police officer pulled over Barney Liddle a trombone player with then up-and-coming Lawrence Welk Orchestra who was rushing from a gig in Milwaukee to meet his wife in Chicago the officer couldn ...

BREA – Norma Zimmer, known as the “Champagne Lady” on TV’s “The Lawrence Welk Show,” has died. She was 87. She died Tuesday in her home in Lake Park Brea, a mobile-home community. Zimmer, who ...

Bandleader Lawrence Welk achieved fame with his bubbly “Champagne music” and beloved variety TV show — but the star’s grandson insisted his goal wasn’t to become a household name. “He didn’t care ...

Lawrence Welk, the band leader whose folksy charm and bubbly brand of “Champagne music” shaped the longest-running show in television history, died Sunday evening at his home in Santa Monica, Calif.