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http://stjtelegraph.org/?p=5156|title=St. Joseph Native Rocky Rockwell Dies|author=Duane Thies|date=January 29, 2014|publisher=''St. Joseph Telegraph''|location=St. Joseph, Missouri|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref>

http://stjtelegraph.org/?p=5156|title=St. Joseph Native Rocky Rockwell Dies|author=Duane Thies|date=January 29, 2014|publisher=''St. Joseph Telegraph''|location=St. Joseph, Missouri|accessdate=November 29, 2015}}</ref>

In 1951, Rockwell was working in a [[polka]] band in Grand Island, [[Nebraska]], on radio station KMMJ. [[Lawrence Welk]] was in the area and urged Rockwell to audition with the Welk band in St. Joseph. Rockwell took the train to St. Joseph for the audition. With his family and friends in the audience, Rockwell was well received and was hired by Welk. He sang "Sunny Side of the Street."  

In 1951, Rockwell was working in a polka band in Grand Island, [[Nebraska]], on radio station KMMJ. Lawrence Welk was in the area and urged Rockwell to audition with the Welk band in St. Joseph. Rockwell took the train to St. Joseph for the audition. With his family and friends in the audience, Rockwell, who wore a crew cut, was well received and was hired by Welk. He sang "Sunny Side of the Street." One of his signature songs was "I Love Girls," which he repeated thereafter on the run of ''The Lawrence Welk Show''. Rockwell struck out on his own in 1962. He played in the [[Las Vegas]] and [[Reno]], [[Nevada]], then back  in St. Joseph, at the Wigwam resort in Sun City, [[Arizona]], and with Steve Cooper's band in [[Chicago]].<ref nam,e=bio/>

Rockwell died at the age of ninety in Sun City, [[Arizona]]. He and his wife, who died in 2000, had two children, one deceased.<ref name=bio/>

Rockwell and his wife, who died in 2000, had two children, a daughter Wynoma, and a son, Jeffrey, who is deceased. Rockwell died in Sun City at the age of ninety.<ref name=bio/>

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