The Miracles only hit #1 once during the entire time Smokey Robinson led the group. That was in 1970, when “The Tears Of A Clown,” which they’d recorded four years earlier, finally made its ascent.

Hip dude that I was in the early 1970s, I caught only glimpses of The Lawrence Welk Show on the tube on my way out of the house on Saturday nights. No doubt, to many Americans, Welk and his clean-cut ...

Thirty-three years after it first went on the air, the ”Lawrence Welk Show” is alive and kicking, at least onstage in theaters across America. The polkas, waltzes and other forms of ”champagne music,” ...

STRASBURG, N.D. -- It has been decades since anyone has lived on the small farmstead that made this small North Dakota farming community famous. But listen carefully. As visitors drive up from the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Feeney, a tenor who crooned “Danny Boy” and other standards for 25 years on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” died Wednesday. He was 76. Feeney died of emphysema at a hospice in ...

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 ...

A guitar player born and raised in Adams, N.D., was in high demand, and played backup to many of this country's lead singers and musicians of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Neil LeVang had the ability to ...

While Lawrence Welk amassed most of his $800-million fortune through a prosperous song-publishing business, he will probably best be remembered for “The Lawrence Welk Show,” a variety show televised ...

Mickey McMahan, 77, a trumpet player with big-band leaders Lawrence Welk, Les Brown and others, died June 11 at his home in Van Nuys of neuropathy and an unrelated blood disease, his stepson Steve ...