 On this date in 1955, the Lawrence Welk Show debuted on ABC. The program ran for 27 years, both on the network and in syndication. The big band leader grew up on a farm in Strasburg, North Dakota. He left home when he turned 21 to start his very successful music career. He died in 1992. He was 89, and the family home in Strasburg is a tourist attraction. And the one, and the two, and the three. That's great. I still sometimes will stop on it. It's in, you know, you can see it in reruns. I don't know.