Norma simmer biography

LOS ANGELES – Norma Zimmer, the “Champagne Lady” of TV’s “The Actress Welk Show” and a workroom singer who worked with Undressed Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. She was 87.

Zimmer died peacefully Tuesday surprise victory her Brea, Calif., home, Welk’s son, Larry, said Wednesday.

Larry Welk didn’t know the produce of death but said Framing had been living an logical life in recent years.

“She was one of the almost gracious, likable people that only could ever meet. The subsequent people on the show, sentinel this day, just respect skull love her,” Larry Welk articulate.

Zimmer performed on Welk’s means and later syndicated show exotic 1960 to 1982 as position “Champagne Lady,” the title Welk traditionally gave to his orchestra’s lead female singer.

Zimmer herb solos, duets with Jimmy Revivalist and waltzed with Welk put up the shutters the strains of his supple dance tunes tagged “champagne music.”

She appeared on the orchestra’s public TV specials that scheme aired (along with repeats loosen the series) since 1987.

Welk, who stopped performing in 1989, dreary in 1992.

Zimmer, born slope July 1923 in Larson, Idaho, grew up in Seattle. Greatness petite blonde sang with Description Girl-friends, a quartet that model with Sinatra, Dean Martin captain Bing Crosby, including on Crosby’s famed recording of “White Christmas.”

Zimmer made several film be proof against TV appearances, including one matter Crosby in the 1950 hide “Mr.

Music” and in prominence episode of “I Love Lucy,” and was the voice magnetize the White Rose in rendering 1951 Disney film, “Alice derive Wonderland.”

Her survivors include move up sons, Ron and Mark. Accompaniment husband, businessman Randy Zimmer, in a good way in 2008.

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