

While all of these un-compliments are accurate from a “how much money can we make off this guy and his champagne music” point of view by the music industry executives there are always two sides to a story. In the 1960s, his style of music was declared un-hip, un-cool, un-fashionable, un-popular, and square by the media.

Lawrence Welk has long been blamed for the disappearance of polka music in the United States. We shall now dispel the image of Welk as someone who caused the decline of the popularity of polka music. Last month we discussed about the importance of Texas to Lawrence Welk in his early years. Hunkered down in the suburbs of Fayetteville.
