9/7/2005: North Dakota musician Lawrence Welk said his first real break came in 1937, when his band was playing in Chaska, MN. Will Osborne’s band was playing in nearby St. Paul, and one day Welk told his band he was taking them into the city for lunch and to “listen to a real artist at work.” One of his band members joked, “If you’re going to treat.[the] guy must be good!”