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Almost as long as there’s been television, there’s been music on television. From the music revues of the 1930s BBC to the reality-singing competitions of today, there’s been no shortage of sound to go with the picture. Fifty years ago, some profound changes in the TV landscape affected not one, not two, but three iconic music shows. The three shows, each promoting very different genres, laid new foundations for music on television ten years before the advent of MTV and helped kicked off a run of other programming that shaped the televised delivery of music. Those programs were
Editor s note: This month, The Sun will dive into some of Gainesville s underrepresented community leaders and their work. We focus first on Elois Waters and her decades spent shaping generations of Alachua County residents lives and bringing dance to underserved families.
Girls and boys in black leotards and tights or T-shirts and athletic shorts fill the room, stretching along the mirrored walls and practicing pliés, high kicks and their latest choreography. Later, men and women will take their places and perform the same ritual.
Kirk Franklin songs play in the background, singing messages of confidence, love and worship.
You re looking at Ministries of Expressive Song & Dance Inc., a nonprofit affordable dance company for children and adults led by longtime Gainesville teacher, author and minister Elois Waters, 60.
Q: Iâm looking for a needle in a haystack. I have an 83-year-old father who wants nothing more than to watch Lawrence Welk episodes 24/7. I have exhausted every possible means to find the entire Lawrence Welk series, color episodes only, from eBay, Amazon and so on â to no avail. I have only been able to find four episodes here and there. Can you possibly assist?
M.D.
Answer: The reason you can t find any Lawrence Welk DVDs is because they don t exist. Susie Dowdy, the publicist for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, which has produced several Lawrence Welk specials said, âWe syndicate the series therefore no DVDs are available for purchase. Any found on the internet are made by fans and are illegal. We do have DVDs of our specials but those are few and only available through stations for a pledge of support.
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After more than a half-century of family ownership, the Welk Resorts portfolio, including the original Escondido location, is being sold to Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation for $430 million.
Once the still pending sale is finalized by early in the second quarter Marriott says it plans to rebrand the Welk vacation resorts in California, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico and Cabo San Lucas as Hyatt Residence Club properties. The purchase price includes roughly 1.4 million Marriott Vacations common shares.
The acquisition represents a major milestone for a company started 57 years ago by the late television bandleader Lawrence Welk, whose hospitality empire took root in 1964 when he was driving through rural Escondido and noticed a 100-space mobile home park and an adjacent nine-hole golf course with a clubhouse, 60-seat restaurant and a four-room motel.