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

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

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

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

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.