I don't care what anyone thinks - I love the Lawrence Welk Show! Who's with me?

[LynneSin]

It was a great show that brings backs vunderful vunderful memories!!

Oh, and this man is an Accordian God!!


He's the Jimmy page of Accordian players

[LSK]

1. YOUR NUTS!!!!

:hide:

[taterguy]

2. I think I want some of whatever you've been smoking

I don't even do drugs but it must be really good shit

[LynneSin]

4. I don't do drugs either but...

...this Cream of Crab soup is something fierce - want some?

[terrya]

3. I remember Tom Netherton

He was so...tall. And...pretty.

[LynneSin]

5. He still is

[cmkramer]

22. I found a copy of his autobiography a few years back in our library discard pile

It was like 25 cents so I bought it. He's one of those guys who's pretty much lived a charmed life in terms of being successful at whatever he did.

I always had a soft spot for Guy and Ralna. And Norma Zimmer.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. You know what I love about it?

It's not on anymore!

[LynneSin]

7. Yes it is - Saturday nights on PBS at 7pm

I watch it about 2-3 times a month

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I figured in this day and age of digital cable and satellite tv it had to be...

on somewhere at some time. I don't know why I didn't think of PBS. Actually, I have nothing against the show. It sedated my grandmother for years. And she needed it!

[WCGreen]

33. I love turning it on and just having it there...

I think back to when I was a kid and my grandma and aunt would polka together while we settled in for the night...

Dad and mom had dropped us off on Saturday night and we would just have a ball, the four of us, dancing and stuff...

Funny how stuff you think is so gross when you are listening to your own little niche of music can bring back memories when you learn to take music for what it is; people sharing, people laughing, people being people...

[skypilot]

9. I have actually never watched...

...the Lawrence Welk Show. I used to pass it while flipping channels. But there has been a little soft spot in my heart for the man ever since I heard years ago that one of his favorite songs is "Funky Town (Won't You Take Me To...) by Lipps Inc.

[Aristus]

10. "Wunnafull, wunnafull. T'ank you Mah-ronn, dat a-lovely accordian music!"

Myron Floren, accordian geek.

[LynneSin]

11. Myron Floren - the Jimmy Page of Accordian Players

the man rocks with an accordian

[BuelahWitch]

28. My Grandma had a thing for Myron

We used to watch LW every Saturday night. :hi:

[libnnc]

35. My grandmother did too

She LOVED her some Myron.

[trackfan]

12. An' now-a Mary Lou an' Jack will perform a costume number for you-a.

Aren't those kids wunnerful!

[MissMillie]

13. It was the one show my parents insisted that they get to watch

When I think of how much horrible TV they watched because we wanted to see it....

but this was the one thing they demanded that they get to see.

Looking back on it, I may not have totally loved the show, but it represents to me something that my family did together...so, good times!

[LynneSin]

18. OMG - that's the same thing with me

Our whole family watched the Lawrence Welk show together. I remember trying to dance like Arthur Duncan everytime I saw him on the LW show. I swore I was going to be a tap dancer when I grew up (btw, I have 2 left feet).

I'm not sure when PBS started airing the repeats, which are usually hosted by one of the LW players still alive and in Branson, but when I visited my grandfather we would always watch the show together on Saturday night. He loved Polka and because of him I adore Polka too. For like the last 5-6 Xmas he was alive it was my mission to find him a new Polka Cassette which he would listen to on an old boombox I bought back in the 80's (my mother insisted on upgrading him sometime in the mid 90s which he would use one of those cassette players from the 70s)

[mac56]

25. so would we

My grandma would be in seventh heaven, surrounded by all of us and watching the Champagne Music Makers on Saturday night.

If I ever get to heaven, it'll only be because I refrained from making adolescent smart-assed comments during that hour each week.

[ohiosmith]

14. I loved it during the mid to late 60s. It was broadcast from the Hollywood Palladium

across Sunset Blvd. from the Hullabaloo. On Saturday nights my room mates and I would meet several of the daughters of Welk's orchestra members at the Hullabaloo and take them up to our place in the hills.

They were typically from the Valley where the guys were square, the dope scarce, and the music lame.

I'll say no more.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Well...

I liked the bubbles.

[Karenina]

43. Lawrence Welk was a world class musician!!!

I thought he was corny UNTIL I decided to put together an ice-dancing tape in honor of his death. I listened to every recording he made and came away from that experience with a VERY DIFFERENT impression of his talents. He was also quite partial to the oboe ;-) for which he wrote terrific lines.

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. That show will forever remind me

of my grandparents. :)

[Guava Jelly]

17. They had the best pianist on that show

:7
count me in

[blockhead]

19. he's one of my homeboys

from Strasburg, ND

[mac56]

20. Agree 100%.

The lovely Lennon Sisters..
JoAnn Castle..

:loveya:

[hellbound-liberal]

21. I applaud your exquisite taste, LynneSin!

My favorites are the Christmas shows when everything seems so Wunnerful, Wunnerful!

[Taverner]

23. Um...yeah

It's not just that the show celebrates a yesteryear that never was, where kids were respectful of their elders, and Old Glory brought out a tear to our eyes...

It's not just that the singers (male and female) had more shelack in their hair and faces than a new hardwood floor...

It's that they take Big Band Swing tunes, written to be played FAST and FURIOUS and instead slow the tempo and turn them into waltzes. They take the life out of Benny Goodman.

[trackfan]

24. Here's the new Welk Forum:

http://welkforum.buffnet.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

[NC_Nurse]

26. My nana liked him.

That's good enough for me! :D

[Maineiac]

27. Bubbles, Chjampagne music and the acordian

Who could not love that? And a one and a two . . . .

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. Pale force. . . blinding! blinding!

blandness sucking soul . . . blblbl blajksdglkj.,c. . . . .















Hello, Lynn Sin. I too love Lawrence Welk.

[Generic Brad]

30. The Lennon Sisters were hot!

Of course, that was back in the 1960's.

[AshevilleGuy]

31. It was absolutely hilarious back when we used to

get high and watch it. The only thing funnier was the Gong Show. Either way we usually wound up on the floor laughing until we couldn't breathe!!

Has that only been 30 years ago??? Wow.

[Vidar]

32. No, I'm not, which is a shame. because I love most of the songs they

murder. Welk was a master at turning wonderful swing tunes into bubble gum with his horrid arrangements.

[ashling]

34. Tank 'a you boys

Bobby an' a Debbie will dance for you to a tune sung by the beautiful LynneSin Sister. Take it away

[libnnc]

36. Family tradition in our house

My grandmother watched with my mother...

My mother watched it with me. Loved Bobby and Sissy.

Every freaking week. Saturday nights ROCKED! Then, after Welk, we'd watch CBS Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and my favorite, Carol Burnett. Great tv.

[SeattleGirl]

39. I loved Bobby an' a Sissy!

My family always watched Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights.

[BuelahWitch]

42. I loved watching them too

Was surprised to learn later he had been a Mouseketeer.

[njdemocrat106]

37. I'll watch Lawrence when he's on, too

Yes, my grandmother liked (and still likes) him. And say what you will about the "bubbly" music (it's Champagne music, you know), the musicians on the show were top-notch. Also, Arthur Duncan was an amazing dancer. That guy could move.

[bumblebee1]

38. I remember Lawrence Welk

Saturday nights after we had our ice cream. We'd watch with my step-grandfather. We'd have to go to bed shortly before it ended so we could get up to attend early morning 8am) Mass. I remember saying that when I grew up, I wanted to play in Lawrence Welk's orchestra. I never got the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument. LW's orchestra ceases to exist now except on the shows on PBS. Every once in a while, I'll watch the show on PBS.

I have a Lawrence Welk related story involving my late mother-in-law. One Saturday evening, the Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show were in town at one of our local theaters. The nursing home my mother-in-law was in sponsored a trip for the residents. Since my husband had power of attorney for her, the home called to ask permission for Mother to go see the show. My hubby had no problem with it. At the time, I was thinking a couple of things: 1) She's an adult, if she wants to see the Lawrence Welk Show, she should go. Why did the home need your permission for her to go? 2) The Lawrence Welk Show? Isn't Lawrence Welk dead?

[texanwitch]

40. I hate the show but my Grandparents loved it.

Saturday night on the farm, watching the show in B&W.

My Grandfather would drink two bottles of Shiner beer and eat corn chips.

I would go outside on the front porch and watch the cars go by on the highway.

[deucemagnet]

41. Yrrg! No good memories here!

I remember my grandmother always watched that when she babysat me. If you think it's fucking lame when you're five years old, it's fucking lame. The only thing I dreaded more was if my grandmother was babysitting when The Sound of Music was on TV. Fucking Von Trapps. :banghead:

[PassingFair]

44. Are we long, lost abused grandchildren of the same nazi grandmother?

My "good" grandmother was not well off and had a black & white TV.

My "evil" grandmother was rich and had a color TV. My mother used to
make us get dressed up to go to evil grandmother's, where we were
"PERMITTED" to watch Lawrence Welk. (And sometimes Gunsmoke) UGH!

Once a year, we got to see "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on the
magical color TV, for which I AM grateful, because I still tear up
from the sheer beauty of the saturated colors when I happen to catch it on TV now.

We didn't get a color TV in my house until 1971!

[deucemagnet]

48. I think we finally got a color TV around the same time.

Prior to that, there was a black and white TV with a broken on/off switch, so you had to plug/unplug it. Also, there was a pair of needle nose pliers on top of the TV for changing channels.

[Arkansas Granny]

45. I watched enough Lawrence Welk when it was originally shown

to last me a lifetime. It was on every Saturday night at our house when I was a kid because my folks liked it. We only had one TV so everyone watched the show together or didn't watch anything at all.

[wildhorses]

46. it is like comfort food in this day and age

sheesh i am getting old

[Threedifferentones]

47. Wow

They do exist.