They were too poor to rent rooms, so they usually slept and changed clothes in their cars. Initially, the band traveled around the country by car. ĭuring the 1930s, Welk led a traveling big band that specialized in dance tunes and "sweet" music (during this period, bands which played light, melodic music were referred to as "sweet bands" to distinguish them from the heavy, loud, rhythmic swing bands of artists like Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington). "Spiked Beer" featured Welk and his Novelty Orchestra. Īlthough many associate Welk's music with a style quite separate from jazz, he did record one notable song in a ragtime style in November 1928 for Richmond, Indiana-based Gennett Records. In 1927, he graduated from the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His band was also the station band for popular radio station WNAX in Yankton, South Dakota. These included the Hotsy Totsy Boys and later the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra. He led big bands in North Dakota and eastern South Dakota. During the 1920s, he performed with various bands before starting his own orchestra. On his 21st birthday, having fulfilled his promise to his father, Welk left the family farm to pursue a career in music, which he loved. Any money he made elsewhere during that time, doing farmwork or performing, would go to his family. in 2022) He promised his father that he would work on the farm until he was 21, in repayment for the accordion. Welk decided on a career in music and persuaded his father to buy a mail-order accordion for $400 (equivalent to $ Error when using : |end_year= 2,022 (parameter 4) is greater than the latest available year ( 2,019) in index " US". They spent the cold North Dakota winter of their first year inside an upturned wagon covered in sod. Growing up speaking German and English, Welk left school during fourth grade to work full-time on the family farm. The family lived on a homestead, which is now a tourist attraction. (Welk's mother and Schweitzer's paternal grandmother were siblings.) Welk's grandparents, Moritz and Magdalena Welk, emigrated in 1808 from Alsace-Lorraine to Ukraine. Lawrence Welk was a first cousin, once removed, of former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer. He was sixth of the eight children of Ludwig and Christiana (née Schwahn) Welk, ethnic Germans who emigrated to America in 1892 from Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Welk was born in the German-speaking community of Strasburg, North Dakota.
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