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Show UTAH BUND & AWNING 57 EAST TRUMAN 2330 So. Between State & Main c. Nowmet . Thejirst 4G6-876- 4 Patio Doore Need Jtelp patio cover designed SHUTTERS FIRST LESSON FREE American Ball Room or Disco. Single and Couples. Class now forming. With or without partners. Lawrence Welk and Brigitte Jennison, a secretary , do a bit of hoofing in Welk's office in Santa Monica, Calif., to the kind of music Welk likes, Dixieland, but rarely plays on his enormously popular weekly television program. What he plays on the air is for his fans, the music of Welk s Champagne Music Makers. Enroll Now NEW LOCATION 2331 So. State St. S.LC. tt titurfu! u rr;fi u ( ' x. y i w- - 1)) " & fe y l- - ts 521-056- 6 it tit i't ilk ylrih ur'JJS(urray - i- ir hunch 'to p-- " cvjr We change people into couples." Jt S. 2478V2 Washington Blvd. Jerr Buck 393-504- 1 Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES If you have a touch of gray on top and a passion for that rhythm, lend me an ear. This is about Lawrence Welk. The mamas and the daddies, theyre our closest fans, says Welk. I grew up with them and theyre still with me. AS FOR THE young, Welks Champagne Music Makers may never replace Kiss or Billy Joel, but he thinks hes making headway. We have more young people coming to us all the time, but senior citizens are our No. 1 audience. I think we can hold onto them because not too many shows cater to people in my age bracket." Welk leads what may be America's most popular band, and his weekly syndicated television show is sent to 227 stations in the United States and 31 in Canada. His U.S. audience alone is estimated at 23.6 million. ABC DROPPED THE show in 1971 after 15 years, and it looked Uke the end. I think they were looking towards a more permissive type of show instead that were plain vanilla. More than a million letters of protest, plus thousands of telegrams and phone calls, flooded the network. Instead of drying, Don Fedderson Productions and Welk's long-tim- e sponsors moved the show into syndication. Welk, in a bright green sweater and green and yellow checked pants, puts an old 78 record on a windup Victrola. Twelfth Street Rag blares out. Thats me on the accordian, when I still played regularly. He directs his financial empire, which includes office buildings, apartment houses, hotels, restaurants, and trailer parks, from a seventh-floo- r office overlooking the beach at Santa Monica. He owns the building. "MY FANS ARE like myself. I was poor farm people and I punched along until things got going good for me. Welk is trim and healthy, and doesn't look his 76 years. He comes from hardy See Page T-- Column 3 PLAYER PIANO of plain vanilla. Not Give your family the fun of a The Salt player piano! Great family times, Great teenage Lake parties, Super fun for small children! OLD TIMERS 900 p 1 ONLY NEW PLAYER Rolls, Bench, Ukelana (rinky fink piano), etc. $ 1,495 1,995,. 3.350 liCMsfa Daily & Sat. 10-- 6 mm p.m. 2233 South 7th last May 13, 1979 T J years, some milocation wiBiiiiiifiiimi9iiiwrTi'riiwtiJwMW ibwib 15 iiiiiiim 3 |
