The youngest of three sons of Frank Roy Scott, Sr. and Alice Wilson Scott, Frank Roy Scott, Jr. was born in Fargo on June 21, 1921.  Educated in the Fargo school system, he graduated from Central High School in 1939.  He entered the engineering program at North Dakota Agricultural College (NDAC) that fall, but left school in 1940.

Music, not engineering, had been Frank's calling from the time he was very young.  He began taking piano lessons when he was eight years old, and he led a band and composed and arranged his first songs at age 12.  He also learned to play the guitar, banjo, ukulele, and harpsichord.  When Frank left NDAC, he moved with his new wife, Jeanette Daniels Scott, to Cleveland, Ohio, and joined the orchestra of Paul Simms.  While in Ohio Frank and Jeanette had their first child, Douglas.

They returned to Fargo in 1944 and he began his twelve-year career as the music director and pianist for WDAY radio.  During that period he scored over 2,500 arrangements for WDAY while composing music for community theater groups and conducting local ice shows.  Frank and Jeanette had three more children while living in Fargo: Sally, Todd, and Frank Roy Sott, III.

In 1956 the family relocated to southern California, where Frank became an arranger and accompanist for the Lawrence Welk Show.  He also assisted the production staff and furnished programming ideas.  He worked with many stars including Pat Boone, Debbie Reynolds. Glen Campbell, Liberace, Myron Floren, and Norma Zimmer.  He arranged thousands of songs and composed his two most famous songs, Apples and Bananas and The Moment of Truth, while with the Welk show.  He remained with the show until 1969, when he and Jeanette returned to Fargo.

Frank continued to work with music in Fargo, teaching an arranging course at NDSU for a year, organizing a big band, and continuing to arrange music.  He also worked for a time as a realtor for the Arneson Company.

In the late 1970s Frank and Jeanette moved back to southern California.  Jeanette died in 1979.  In the 1980s Frank remained active in music and organized an orchestra that included such musicians as Art Depew, Don Shelton, and Arnold Fishkind.  He led this orchestra until his death in 1995.  At the time of his death he had arranged over 7,000 songs. 

Audrey Roseland Scott

Audrey Remme was born November 8, 1926, to Amos and Solveig Remme of Fargo.  She was the first born and had three brothers: Dale, Keith, and John.  She spent most of her youth with her grandparents, the Ingbergs, of Fargo.  She was educated in the Fargo school system and graduated from Central High School.  She earned a bachelor's degree in Art from NDAC in 1949.

Throughout her education Audrey was involved in entertaining, having began her career as a singer and dancer at age three.  In addition to singing and dancing, she played the piano and accordion.  She was a member of the "Early Dance Review," and "Uncle Ken's Kiddie Club" on WDAY Radio from age 5 to 12.  In 1943 she began working for Frank Scott of WDAY radio and singing with various big bands in the region.  During World War II Audrey toured with the WDAY War Bond Tour Group in North Dakota and Minnesota.  She appeared in many theater productions and taught modern dance and exercise at NDAC between 1944 and 1949.  In 1947 she became Miss Moorhead and placed second in Minnesota's state competition.

As an adult Audrey continued to utilize her experience in singing, dancing, acting, and modeling.  Throughout much of her life she has taught dance, exercise, and make-up techniques in Fargo, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, and southern California.  She also has two children: David and Darcy.  In 1985 Frank Scott, her former supervisor at WDAY, hired her as the vocalist for his orchestra centered in Palm Desert, California.  In 1993 they were married.   Upon his death she led the orchestra for a time.  She continues to reside in Palm Desert.
 
 

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