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This pap is served up every Saturday night here as well. And, one of the major sponsors IS a funeral home...
The folks this show entertained were in their seventies and eighties when it aired originally. We had a little old neighbor lady who would actually play along with the show on her electric organ. She was oh so very sweet but slightly deranged...it was cute to watch her 'rock out' in her own way, but I thought I would die from the horrible music.
I truly hope that when I am at that point in my life that my musical tastes haven't taken a dive this far down the musical sewer. It's pap made for those who can't stomach anything adventuresome anymore. My personal opinion is that Welk may have had some relevance at one time for a certain segment of the population, but that he has slowly lost any significance he may have had at that one time. And whatever relevance he may have had was based on that market segment that has a serious lack of musical taste and/or intellect. Without meaning to sound harsh, I believe that a person with any serious interest in music would quickly evolve far beyond Welk.
The folks this show entertained were in their seventies and eighties when it aired originally. We had a little old neighbor lady who would actually play along with the show on her electric organ. She was oh so very sweet but slightly deranged...it was cute to watch her 'rock out' in her own way, but I thought I would die from the horrible music.
I truly hope that when I am at that point in my life that my musical tastes haven't taken a dive this far down the musical sewer. It's pap made for those who can't stomach anything adventuresome anymore. My personal opinion is that Welk may have had some relevance at one time for a certain segment of the population, but that he has slowly lost any significance he may have had at that one time. And whatever relevance he may have had was based on that market segment that has a serious lack of musical taste and/or intellect. Without meaning to sound harsh, I believe that a person with any serious interest in music would quickly evolve far beyond Welk.
Bland, silly, schmaltzy - our neighbor (in her late
40's when we lived next door) just loved it, and she
is a wonderful woman. But it is so trite as to be painful
to watch.
But I do remember that Sominex and Poli-Grip were
the sponsors when it was on ABC, and now in San
Antonio on PBS it is sponsored by a local funeral
home.....
40's when we lived next door) just loved it, and she
is a wonderful woman. But it is so trite as to be painful
to watch.
But I do remember that Sominex and Poli-Grip were
the sponsors when it was on ABC, and now in San
Antonio on PBS it is sponsored by a local funeral
home.....
The Stan Freberg satire of the Welk show was great---one of the funniest records ever made. Can anyone serious about music really take Welk seriously?
The only reason this matters is that Channel 6-- my local Public Broadcasting System (PBS) station in Denver actually plays this drivel prime time every Saturday night. I won't give them a dime until they stop this torture but I do support the alternative--Channel 12, which is a real PBS station.
The only reason this matters is that Channel 6-- my local Public Broadcasting System (PBS) station in Denver actually plays this drivel prime time every Saturday night. I won't give them a dime until they stop this torture but I do support the alternative--Channel 12, which is a real PBS station.
LW has a nostaligic element for me since it was my grandmother's favorite show. I still cannot, however, get the disturbing images of the LW cast demonstrating the chicken dance. Check it out on youtube. You will never forget!
This show Sucked-A 30+ years ago, and it just gets worse over time! :P But I DO have a Positive Idea about this.. It could be used as a HIGHLY Successful form of Torture. Forget "Water-boarding".. just shove a person in a room, tie them to a chair, and have Lawrence Welk playing on an Endless Loop! 
I won't mince words: it scares me that people still watch this horrible show. My brother and I (now in our mid-50s) endured "The Lawrence Welk Show" with our folks 40 years ago. The ravenous fervor much of that generation still holds for Welk, defies explanation. (Some of them appear quite ready to canonize him as a saint.) Though Welk and his orchestra surely catered to the musical tastes of that generation, the musicality was wooden and soul-less, and the cast's zombie-like grins would have been unbelievable even as a parody attempt.
In commemoration, a clever satirist came up with alternate lyrics to a famous Lou Reed song, to the title of "Take A WELK on the Wild Side." As I recall, it went something like this:
"Sissy and Bobby never gave it away... everybody had to pay and pay... a hustle here, a hustle there, and the champaign lady goes: do, do-do, do-do, and a vun, and a two, two-two, two-two..."
In commemoration, a clever satirist came up with alternate lyrics to a famous Lou Reed song, to the title of "Take A WELK on the Wild Side." As I recall, it went something like this:
"Sissy and Bobby never gave it away... everybody had to pay and pay... a hustle here, a hustle there, and the champaign lady goes: do, do-do, do-do, and a vun, and a two, two-two, two-two..."
Mari, I listen to The Beatles and other 60s/70s rock and roll. My music shows no signs of going anywhere.
Now this is a high quality family show I can recommend to anyone. I know a few of the performers / band on the show and exchange old episodes with them.
And by the way... Arthur Duncan was not the only african american on the show. Paul Humprey played drums in the band from 1976-82.
And by the way... Arthur Duncan was not the only african american on the show. Paul Humprey played drums in the band from 1976-82.
It may sound geeky now but it was good clean entertainment and music. Families were home TOGETHER to watch it.Hey,for those less than 40, how much of your music is still around?
Well, here's the thing. A very small, tiny, part of me actually TOLERATES it...but ONLY because of the orchestra music. But MOST of me thinks that the show, on the whole, is totally geeky and dorky. I can give you PLENTY of examples but I'll only give you some....that dork Bobby Burgess and his partner, Cissy King, dancing; Jo Ann Castle playing the piano (if you want to call it that); and of course, the polka...that totally geeky invention...showing Bobby and Cissy dancing, while Myron Floren plays the accordion. I could give you many more examples, but these are enough, I think. I'll tell you this much...it is so geeky and so dorky that it is totally hilarious!! The ONLY reason I'm even aware of it is because my folks watch it, every Sunday on PBS. Personally, I wouldn't even be caught DEAD watching that geek stuff....at least for the most part. Every once in a great while, I'll watch a little bit of the show, just for laughs. That's the ONLY time I'd watch that show. So, to sum up, The Lawerence Welk Show is totally from "squaresville"!!
Since I'm not seventy years of age or older, I'm not a typical Lawrence Welk fan. Nevertheless, the show jumped when I Lawrence decided to dork up The Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four". That horrendously sappy and campy performance of a great song is enough to make anyone vomit.
The problem with the Lawrence Welk Show is not the music - the music was great. I have to give Welk credit in that he presented a wide variety of good music on his show.
The problem was the dorky, campy, sappy presentation of the music. From the crap-eating grins to the blindness-inducing canary yellow skirts to the cutesy flourishes, every song was dorked up to a point that it was nearly unrecognizable.
Not all of the music was good, however. Some of the cream of the crap included "Frankfurter Sandwiches" and "Something Stupid", which would be irredeemable even if The Beatles or the Rolling Stones performed them.
The absolute low point (though it was hilarious) was when Welk decided to perform the song "One Toke Over The Line" as a, quote, "modern American spiritual". For those who don't know, to "toke" is to smoke a joint of marijuana.
This really did happen. If you don't believe me, look it up yourself on youtube.
Most of the performers themselves weren't even that bad, save for their wide, cheesy grins. In my opinion, the worst performer was Joe Feeny, who sounded more like he was being choked to death than like he was singing.
If it weren't for the diabetes-inducing presentation of the music, this show wouldn't be half bad.
The problem with the Lawrence Welk Show is not the music - the music was great. I have to give Welk credit in that he presented a wide variety of good music on his show.
The problem was the dorky, campy, sappy presentation of the music. From the crap-eating grins to the blindness-inducing canary yellow skirts to the cutesy flourishes, every song was dorked up to a point that it was nearly unrecognizable.
Not all of the music was good, however. Some of the cream of the crap included "Frankfurter Sandwiches" and "Something Stupid", which would be irredeemable even if The Beatles or the Rolling Stones performed them.
The absolute low point (though it was hilarious) was when Welk decided to perform the song "One Toke Over The Line" as a, quote, "modern American spiritual". For those who don't know, to "toke" is to smoke a joint of marijuana.
This really did happen. If you don't believe me, look it up yourself on youtube.
Most of the performers themselves weren't even that bad, save for their wide, cheesy grins. In my opinion, the worst performer was Joe Feeny, who sounded more like he was being choked to death than like he was singing.
If it weren't for the diabetes-inducing presentation of the music, this show wouldn't be half bad.
I don't mind watching TLWS now. When I was a kid, I thought it was "squaresville, man" but it has grown on me over the years. Since my parents and much of their genration friends are not around now, I kind of enjoy seeing something from back then. I can appreciate the big band sound and the good singing of Norma, Jimmy, the Lennons, etc. in a way I didn't before. T;hose band members really sound great. Much of the show's performers are gone now but that music lives on.
The Lawrence Welk Show never jumped. It was a classic, albeit in its own cornpone way. Da lovely Lennon sisters, Anna Connie (sp?), Bobby & Cissy, Guy & Ralna, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, etc. the list of talent was endless. It was like Branson, Missouri before the town grew famous. It was, however, very SQUARE (it was once said the only thing on the show that wasn't square were the bubbles). Nothing the least bit daring or liberal was allowed on. So if you wanted entertainment with an edge, you had to look elsewhere. If you wanted old-fashioned family-oriented values for entertainment, well there it was in all its Republican splendor.
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