When I see LW reruns on PBS, it strikes me how alien fellow humans can be from each other. It is hard to grasp people not being bored to tears with it. (Hee Haw is a different story–I’ve been seeing some reruns from the 1970s and while the humor is horrible, the music–to me, at least–is still gold.)
So does Weird Al.
[Tuba player]
What’s wrong with turning everything into a polka?
[/Tuba player]
Ah, da polka music! It’s-a wunnerful, wunnerful! 
Start da bubble machine!
“And here’s a little tune from double u, double u eye.”
When I got married in the early 1980s, my new husband’s grandmother lived in in Southern California and always wanted us to include a trip with her to Lawrence Welk Village when we visited. Somehow, we escaped that.
On a side note, Wilderness Road includes a LW mention on their ‘Sold for the Prevention of Disease Only’ LP, The Gospel: “Ah one, anna two, anna three, anna four… Friends, we got only a few more left of those beautiful…(Genuine, simulated leather hand-tooled, biblematic biblebelt)…Just like the one that was worn by Myron Floren in his 40 day fast in the wilderness.”
Of course I have! I’m not even close to being good enough on pedal steel.
Root-fifth-root-fifth-root-fifth-root-fifth-sixth-seventh? Nuttin, that’s what!
Maybe I’m not a nice person because “accelerate the loss of hope” is a little cruel and I still laughed.
I’d have to sit through Mom watching it as a child. When I got older, I’d catch it as I was changing stations. Some thoughts on it:
- Bobby the Former Mouseketeer managed to get an adult job he had experience in.
B. Too much treble. It irritated me.
iii. It was an interesting gauge of the slow acceptance of long hair for men. Look at the sideburns.
4th. Dick Nixon and Archie Bunker loved the show, I bet.
The show was on the local (rural) PBS station last weekend, and we showed it to our seven-year old granddaughter. She was quite fascinated with it. “Why are they dressed like that?” “What song is that?” “Why are they using that weird instrument?” (not the accordion, she was confused about the clarinet and saxophone). I think to her it was as strange as watching H R Puff’N’Stuff in its day.
Of course my elderly parents (now gone) watched it every week. They were proud of their South Dakota heritage, and if we were travelling through a town, they’d point out the fact that Lawrence Welk played their, or got his big break there, or they saw Myron Floren perform there. For the last couple decades, we made plans to be elsewhere Saturday at 6:00 PM so we didn’t have to listen to it on PBS; it didn’t help that they were hard-of-hearing and had the volume jacked up.
Hey, that’s striking pretty low! :dubious:
Hey, my parents watched that show! That’s a low blow.
Glad I could help you *snicker, snicker against the dying of the light…
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No bad mouthing Lawrence Welk! He gave us the greatest video ever!
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No bad mouthing Lawrence Welk! He gave us the greatest video ever!
[/QUOTE]Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks! 
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No bad mouthing Lawrence Welk! He gave us the greatest video ever!
[/QUOTE]Gail Farrell is also one of the singers from the One Toke Over the Line performance. Was she one of the show’s main performers?
There’s a distinction to be drawn between the Great American Songbook and the Reader’s Digest American Songbook.
I suspect that the one you saw was the latter.