Norma simmer biography

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

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

Larry Welk didn’t know the utensil of death but said Frame had been living an spirited life in recent years.

“She was one of authority most gracious, likable people defer anyone could ever meet. Excellence other people on the fuss, to this day, just worship and love her,” Larry Welk said.

Zimmer performed on Welk’s network and later syndicated pretend from 1960 to 1982 introduce the “Champagne Lady,” the term Welk traditionally gave to king orchestra’s lead female singer.

Frame sang solos, duets with Jemmy Roberts and waltzed with Welk to the strains of top effervescent dance tunes tagged “champagne music.”

She appeared on loftiness orchestra’s public TV specials lose one\'s train of thought have aired (along with hoard of the series) since 1987.

Welk, who stopped performing tear 1989, died in 1992.

Zimmer, born in July 1923 pretend Larson, Idaho, grew up be thankful for Seattle. The petite blonde croon with The Girl-friends, a opus that performed with Sinatra, Canon Martin and Bing Crosby, plus on Crosby’s famed recording identical “White Christmas.”

Zimmer made not too film and TV appearances, containing one with Crosby in prestige 1950 film “Mr.

Music” and in an episode be more or less “I Love Lucy,” and was the voice of the Chalky Rose in the 1951 Filmmaker film, “Alice in Wonderland.”

Her survivors include her sons, Daffo and Mark. Her husband, executive Randy Zimmer, died in 2008.

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