In 1938 the orchestra garnered performance exposure for a concert at the St. Paul Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the group’s music earned the descriptive “Champagne Music” from a listener who pronounced that the orchestra’s music was “effervescent, like champagne.” From that time forward, the band was billed as The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk. […] a 1951 late-night appearance on television station KTLA became the springboard for his later national fame — Discogs
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Here’s another 1950s polka album with Orplid on the cover.