{"id":24013,"date":"2014-10-08T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24013"},"modified":"2021-06-12T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:53:40","slug":"follow-up-3-lawrence-welk-presents-top-tunes-and-new-talentin-todays-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24013","title":{"rendered":"October 8, 1956&#8230;Lawrence Welk Adds Second Weekly ABC Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/3\">#3<\/a>&#8230; &#8216;Lawrence Welk Presents Top Tunes and New Talent&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s first post on events that happened on this day in television history, this show is listed as debuting October 8, 1956. I&#8217;m adding this to clear up any confusion&#8230;you&#8217;ll see why as you read on.<\/p>\n<p>On May 11, 1951, &#8216;The Lawrence Welk Show&#8217; began as a local program on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. The original show was broadcast from the since-demolished Aragon Ballroom at Venice Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Welk made his national television debut on ABC Television on July 2, 1955 and the show was called &#8216;The Dodge Dancing Party&#8217;. Then, due to huge ratings, on October 8, 1956, ABC added a second weekly Welk show called &#8216;Lawrence Welk Presents Top Tunes And New Talent&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Both shows were an hour and had good ratings, but in &#8217;59, ABC merged the two shows into a once a week prime time show called &#8216;The Lawrence Welk Show&#8217;. The photo above is thought to be from 1956 at the ABC Television Center at the Prospect lot. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/738584572845761\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Follow-Up-3...-Lawrence-Welk-Presents-Top-Tunes-and-New-Talent-In-todays-f\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/738590179511867\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Up #3&#8230; &#8216;Lawrence Welk Presents Top Tunes and New Talent&#8217; In today&#8217;s first post on events that happened on this day in television history, this show is listed as debuting October 8, 1956. I&#8217;m adding this to clear up any confusion&#8230;you&#8217;ll see why as you read on. On May 11, 1951, &#8216;The Lawrence Welk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,724],"class_list":["post-24013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62826,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions\/62826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}