Peanuts Hucko is perhaps best known to the public for his appearances with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra on national TV during the early 70's. These TV shows are being re-run on Public TV to this day.

Michael “Peanuts" Hucko was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and would become one of the biggest and most prolific clarinetists after Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Buddy DeFranco. The name was given to him as ...

I hope you get the chance to read my Music Notes piece about Dan Elliott's upcoming "The Lost Tapes" CD project in today's Weekend section. Here's the late, great Peanuts Hucko introducing Elliott ...