By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

You know, it's a long world.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.