On this week's episode of "Mobituaries," "Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca sits down with former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and star of HBO's "Los Espookys" Fred Armisen (who famously parodied Welk on "SNL") to memorialize the accordionist, band leader and television host. ![]() He would make a name for himself across the Upper Midwest leading a ten-piece band called the Hotsy-Totsy Boys, and in 1951 "The Lawrence Welk Show" began as a local program on KTLA in Los Angeles. In exchange, Welk worked on the farm until he was 21, turning over any monies earned from gigs. ![]() His father sold a cow to pay for Welk's first accordion. Welk was raised on a farm in Strasburg, North Dakota, the child of German immigrants who made their way to the United States by way of the Ukraine.
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