With the classic music of Disney and the fun, big band orchestration of the Lawrence Welk Show, this particular episode was a true Disney celebration, featuring Disney tunes like "Oh Happy Day" "It's a Small World" "Mickey Mouse Mambo" "When You Wish Upon a Star" "Big Bad Wolf" and "The Waltz of the Flowers". Just as Walt Disney created entertainment for the whole family, so did Lawrence Welk. Lawrence Welk Show cast members performing to the Disney classic "It's A Small World"
One September 22, 1973, the Lawrence Welk Show paid tribute to Walt Disney during the company's 50th anniversary. She is also a guest soloist with many symphony orchestras and since the early 1980s has worked the telethon for the West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abilene, Texas.Lawrence Welk, the band leader whose folksy charm and bubbly brand of ''Champagne music'' shaped the longest-running show in television history, charmed audiences each week with his musical variety show. She still sings with members of her Welk musical family across the country at county fairs, resorts plus many other venues. In addition to singing, she is also an accomplished clothing designer and seamstress. Today, Anacani lives in Escondido with her husband Rudy Echeverria and her daughter Priscila. She also had a bit part in the 1981 feature film Zoot Suit. She also did duets with fellow Welk star Tanya Falan, toured with rest of the music makers on the road and released an album called Lawrence Welk presents Anacani through Ranwood Records and she serves as the Latino spokesman for Yuban Coffee. After a few more guest appearances, she was soon hired as a regular performer on the show.ĭuring the course of the show's run, and afterward, she was popular as a soloist with songs like "Vaya Con Dios", "Luna", and "It's Impossible". Soon enough, she was the resort's singing hostess and later made her first appearance on the Lawrence Welk Show in January 1973. When she was in middle school, during a family trip back to Mexico, her singing talents were discovered by a television producer which led to appearances on the variety show Las Estrellas y Usted (The Stars and You) followed by several more appearances on Latin American television and live concert tours as well.Īfter completing high school, Anacani's career took a new turn when she and her family went to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido, California, where she was discovered by bandleader Lawrence Welk himself. It was during that time she began to sing thanks in large part to her family's talented musical background. īorn in Sinaloa, Mexico, as the sixth of seven children of Spanish and French parents, she moved with her family to the United States when she was a child. "Anacani" María Consuelo Castillo-López y Cantor-Montoya (born April 10, 1954) is a Mexican singer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program.
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