Lawrence Welk. Ghost riders in the sky 1961. Nailed it.

Luigi on the maracas is in the zone

A s a kid I hated Lawrence Well. Today I love watching the reruns for the nostalgia and because of a better appreciation for the musical talent.

Another Welk guitarist

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A s a kid I hated Lawrence Well. Today I love watching the reruns for the nostalgia and because of a better appreciation for the musical talent.

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But let's not go too far overboard. The fact is, he took the passion out of the music, leaving only the notes and nostalgia

There is a lot of greatness in The Great American Songbook, but you have to move past Welk to find it

I appreciate that none of that was AI.

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I guess there wasn't any talented mucians on the show.

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that's not what I said at all

I said it's a passionless show. Welk removed any Sintra-esque emotion, leaving only the technical performance

Welk was always too clunky for my tastes. Guy Lombardo mined similar territory, but did it with a smoother, more satisfying flair. Plus, he even occasionally got jazzy in his early days, like his 1928 recording of "Nobody's Sweetheart."

But on the other hand, Welk did have the Lennon Sisters, and if anyone wants to see a pristine helping of late-60s whitebread entertainment, watch the full-season 1969-70 variety series "Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters." It was rerun on the old Goodlife-TV station about 25 years ago, and I don't think I'll ever forget the weirdness of the Lennons singing that "Windmills of Your Mind" song.

Well, they did this song.



One Toke Over the Line

the sideburns give it away…he’s a toker

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it's a passionless show

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The beautifullah Anacani and I beg to differ.