[PStamler]

I too was a regular Welk listener well into my teens. That may be
where I acquired a love for polkas (along with growing up on the south
side of Chicago). Also ragtime piano, thanks to Jo Ann Castle. (Later,
and more subtle, Josh Rifkin.)

I don't claim to have had great ear abilities back then, but it always
sounded clear and clean through the speaker in our RCA console TV, and
that's more than I could say for a lot of programs. Roy, this would
have been a few years before your tenure.

Peace.
Paul