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Any Lawrence Welk fans?
Posted on 6/11/12 at 7:15 am
Posted on 6/11/12 at 7:15 am
I remember this growing up. Reruns probably, but I did so enjoy watching it as a child with my grandparents. Good memories. Shame we don't have music like this anymore.
Toking with Lawrence welk. Wunnerful, wunnerful
Adios, Au Revoir
Toking with Lawrence welk. Wunnerful, wunnerful
Adios, Au Revoir
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Posted on 6/11/12 at 10:40 am to fr33manator
no
Posted on 6/11/12 at 10:47 am to TigerRad
That makes me sad.
It was a wunnerful show
It was a wunnerful show
Posted on 6/11/12 at 11:13 am to fr33manator
No, but I used to watch the Porter Wagoner Show with a young Dolly Parton. Ol' Porter was tappin' dat. 
Posted on 6/11/12 at 11:20 am to fr33manator
When I was a little boy I thought the youngest Lennon sister was kind of hot.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 2:36 pm to fr33manator
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Any Lawrence Welk fans?
Not sure if TulaneLSU alter.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 2:42 pm to fr33manator
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It was a wunnerful show
disagree
My grandparents put me through that shite in the 70s. It sucked to the little kid me, and it still sucks to the grown-up me.
Bad music gonna bad.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:15 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Can't a man like big band goodness and chipper tunes?
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:17 pm to fr33manator
I like a big band as much as the next guy.
But not a shitty soulless one.
Chipper doesnt have to mean empty and without balls or soul or anything resembling sincere emotional content.
eta: omg, I'm on the internet ranting against Lawrence Welk - this is why freeman is one of my fave posters
But not a shitty soulless one.
Chipper doesnt have to mean empty and without balls or soul or anything resembling sincere emotional content.
eta: omg, I'm on the internet ranting against Lawrence Welk
- this is why freeman is one of my fave posters This post was edited on 6/11/12 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:35 pm to fr33manator
Ahhhh Lawrence Welk reruns with my grandmother. Fond memories. Just thinking of her comments during the show make me laugh. Great times.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:36 pm to TigerRad
Sure, the show didn't have the gritty soul of a hole in the wall jazz joint, or the gravity of a magnificent orchestra, but it provided danceable music to generations of old people. I can remember my grandparents dancing together while it would play on the TV.
Perhaps it's because we can't find that simple joy in media today that it stuck with me so.
Perhaps it's the fact that the last thing my grandfather did before he passed was to dance with my grandmother to Lawrence Welk.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:38 pm to fr33manator
One man's unforgivably terrible music is another man's priceless memory of lifelong love.
I love American culture so much.
I love American culture so much.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:40 pm to TigerRad
Indeed. When my grandfather would sing, the notes would positively drip with emotion. I can still hear his quavering baritone as he sang "old man river"
Posted on 6/11/12 at 3:45 pm to TigerRad
We really are so lucky today, that we can pull up virtually any piece of music, by a thousand different artists, and experience it whenever we like at the touch of a finger.
Our predecessors didn't have that luxury.
So perhaps that glitzy, sterilized, scheduled occurrence was where they could find a bit of solace.
Perhaps it isn't the music that plays, but who you experience it with that really matters
Our predecessors didn't have that luxury.
So perhaps that glitzy, sterilized, scheduled occurrence was where they could find a bit of solace.
Perhaps it isn't the music that plays, but who you experience it with that really matters
Posted on 6/11/12 at 4:11 pm to fr33manator
yeah, used to watch it. I think if asked if I liked it at the time, I would've said hell no! But it does evoke a pleasant sort of nostalgia. I did like the tap dancer.
Posted on 6/11/12 at 4:19 pm to epbart
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yeah, used to watch it. I think if asked if I liked it at the time, I would've said hell no! But it does evoke a pleasant sort of nostalgia. I did like the tap dancer.
I think this is the core of it. I can't really remember individual songs other than "adios, au Revoir", but I can still remember the spirit of it, and the experiences with my loved ones as it played in the background
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