http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI


wtf?

:yikes:




:lmao::lmao::lmao:

You had me for a moment there!

That is hysterical. :thmbsp: :thmbsp:

When the camera cuts to them dancing, I laughed out loud.

Thanks. Snade

Oh man I wished I could show this to my dad... he watched Lawrence every time it was on :( Finally, one episode I like :D

Please don't post any more links like this... my morbid curisoty took me down the slippery downhill scream from there.... To the Welk chicken dance.. to the techno chicken dance... the last 10 minutes of my life have been wasted :tears:

Please don't post any more links like this... my morbid curisoty took me down the slippery downhill scream from there.... To the Welk chicken dance.. to the techno chicken dance... the last 10 minutes of my life have been wasted :tears:


Curse-ed information age. :D

The thread title made me think someone took a Lawrence Welk video and replaced its soundtrack with Velvet Underground's Heroine. This is not the case.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Still searchin' for my main line...

Dammit! I had to watch the video of the chicken dancing as well. :yes:

This is the kind of thing the Lawrence Welk Orchestra was mostly known for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjouKkpR3MU

BTW, these were the highest paid sidemen in show business. At that time they were making about $3000/mo.

The Welk sax section were all students of my teacher, Santy Runyon, from the world famous Runyon Studio in Chicago in the 1940's-50's. From that same studio came Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, 4 of 5 of the Cab Calloway saxes, including the famous Chu Berry, and many more.

What no Accordian solo?

This is the kind of thing the Lawrence Welk Orchestra was mostly known for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjouKkpR3MU

BTW, these were the highest paid sidemen in show business. At that time they were making about $3000/mo.

The Welk sax section were all students of my teacher, Santy Runyon, from the world famous Runyon Studio in Chicago in the 1940's-50's. From that same studio came Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, 4 of 5 of the Cab Calloway saxes, including the famous Chu Berry, and many more.

Very interesting. I know Pete Fountain was also an alum of the band.

I watched the show in college in the early 70's when it was not a cool thing to do.

Cheers, Snade

Iggy Pop is Lawrence Welk's illegitimate son. Didn't you ever notice the similarities: the hair, the eyes, the needle tracks, the accordion solos? Spooky, ain't it?

Oh dear god - the video labeled "Tokin with Lawrence Welk" is physically painful.

Very interesting. I know Pete Fountain was also an alum of the band.

I watched the show in college in the early 70's when it was not a cool thing to do.

Cheers, Snade

Was watching The Lawrence Welk Show ever a cool thing to do?

Was watching The Lawrence Welk Show ever a cool thing to do?

:lmao::lmao:

Was watching The Lawrence Welk Show ever a cool thing to do?

There wasn't much else, 'cept Hee Haw, American Bandstand, and Soul Train.:smoke:

I understand that somewhere there is a video of Liberace jamming with the Sex Pistols. Can't find it, thugh.:scratch2:

Oh dear god - the video labeled "Tokin with Lawrence Welk" is physically painful.

Thanks a lot!! You made me look!! Pretty darn funny!!

Hey Wank,

Great pickup on One Toke Over the Line. I've been thinking about lookin for it. One of the most truly subversive and bizarre moments in television history. As the story goes, the producers of the show thought it was a suddenly popular gospel-type song, and the guys in the band just let it happen and laughed their asses off.

Incidently, if you happen across that song performed by the Rainmakers with Brewer and Shipley, give it a spin - top-shelf.

That's great, even if it's "Sister Ray", not "Heroin".

:thmbsp:

That's great, even if it's "Sister Ray", not "Heroin".

:thmbsp:


I realized that after I posted. I was waiting for someone to chime in. :thmbsp:

Very Funny,nice to see the 'ol boy could rock/swing with a sense of humor, he really looked like he was enjoying himself! Glad someone else has heard of the Rainmakers, very underrated group of guys Let my people GO-GO was an anthem and very well recorded on LP!!

I'm 50 years old & grew up with this. While some of it was really hokey by supposed modern standards, I must admit that when he behaved, he had a pretty well polished band. Am I really saying this?? That said I've threatened that when I go into the nursing home, if staff are mean to me, I'll get even by tying them up & making them watch L/W shows

Was watching The Lawrence Welk Show ever a cool thing to do?

In the early 70's, my buddies and I thought it was cool to do the most uncool things like listening to Mills Brothers albums and watching Lawrence Welk. In that way we attempted to start a new trend of what is cool. We failed, of course, on this one.

Snade

It's still on the air- along with Andy Griffith and Lucy. Unless you are an ICON, no one will parody you.
The funniest thing about Lawrence Welk was that he was born in North Dakota- and still talked with an accent!
(I'm from Iowa-living in Phoenix- and still talk with an accent- so I'm told...)