My parents watched it. We only had one tv station at the time and we all liked the music. There was only one person whom we didn't like, mostly because mom couldn't stand her, I think. It was that platinum blonde who pounded so hard on the piano with a big cheesy smile plastered on her face. I loved the dancing as dancing was a big part of my life when I was a kid. Since we were a singing/musical family we related in some ways, to the performers and Welk, esp. me as I was born in North Dakota and he was the only semi-famous person I knew of, at the time, who'd also been born there.:-)