ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) Myron Floren, an accordion player who entertained generations of television viewers on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Saturday. He was 85. Floren died of cancer at ...

Myron Floren, an accordion player who entertained generations of television viewers on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died last Saturday. He was 85. Floren died of cancer at his Rolling Hills Estates home ...

Matt Piorkowski found himself playing his accordion on stage with Lawrence Welk more than once in the years that followed lessons sold to his parents by a door-to-door salesman from the Wurlitzer ...

Soon after he bought his first accordion, his father said: 'Accordion playing is all right for fun, Lawrence. But it’s not a life’s work... You’d better start thinking more about the farm.' Lawrence ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- To many Americans, the accordion brings to mind Lawrence Welk, polka music and lederhosen. And the thought of an accordion orchestra, like the one Joan (pronounced Jo-Anne) Sommers ...