Frank Scott

June 21, 1921 (age 73)

Fargo, North Dakota , United States

His instruments were the piano and the harpsichord. Born in Fargo, North Dakota. He first took up the piano at age eight, and by the time he was twelve, he led his first band and started to arrange songs. He was the music director at radio station WDAY in Fargo from 1944 to 1956 where he scored over 2,500 arrangements for the station while composing music for community theater groups and conducting local ice shows. In 1956, bandleader Lawrence Welk asked him to join his orchestra and his nationwide television show. He appeared on the The Lawrence Welk Show playing piano and harpsichord during his tenure on the show until 1969, when he was replaced by the late Bob Smale. He also worked behind the scenes of the Welk show as an arranger, assisted the production staff and furnished programming ideas. Scott also arranged thousands of songs and recorded albums in his own right for Coral and Dot Records. By the late 1970s, he moved back to California and formed his own orchestra, which he led until he died in October 1995. By that time, he lived in Palm Desert and had arranged more than seven thousand songs in his entire career.

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He originally attended North Dakota Agricultural College after high school, but after a year he left when he decided to pursue a career in music

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His instruments were the piano and the harpsichord. Born in Fargo, North Dakota. He first took up the piano at age eight, and by the time he was twelve, he led his first band and started to arrange songs.

He was the music director at radio station WDAY in Fargo from 1944 to 1956 where he scored over 2,500 arrangements for the station while composing music for community theater groups and conducting local ice shows.

In 1956, bandleader Lawrence Welk asked him to join his orchestra and his nationwide television show. He appeared on the The Lawrence Welk Show playing piano and harpsichord during his tenure on the show until 1969, when he was replaced by the late Bob Smale.

He also worked behind the scenes of the Welk show as an arranger, assisted the production staff and furnished programming ideas. Scott also arranged thousands of songs and recorded albums in his own right for Coral and Dot Records.

By the late 1970s, he moved back to California and formed his own orchestra, which he led until he died in October 1995.

By that time, he lived in Palm Desert and had arranged more than seven thousand songs in his entire career.

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