Members swardle Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Now here was a talented musician and bandleader who stood for everything that is decent and moral. While he was brilliant in the art of persuasion (talking all of them hussies out of living in their evil, decadant, and wretched ways), he was truly the master of taking all styles of music and extracting the evil out of it and making it a Godly and wholesome extravaganza for the whole family to enjoy. There needs to be more musicians like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillyWa Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 GODDY Indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roblogic Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Everybody loves a polka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 I suspect that I have been influenced by Jo Ann Castle the honky-tonk piano player. Not much I can do about it at this point, I suppose. And everyone was always so happy and smiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TowJam Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 My parents were HUGE fans of Welk and my father was a friend of Welk's principal clarinetist - Peanuts Hucko. In 1969 (when I was 9), my parents, my younger brother and I went on a family vacation to Los Angeles and while there, attended a taping of one of Welk's shows. A few months later when that episode aired, I almost {censored} when I saw my brother and I sitting on the front row making faces at my mom and dad while they danced during one of the audience dance numbers. A few years after that, Peanuts gave my father one of his fake books - over 1000 pages of photocopied sheet music from around the world. Highly illegal but a treasure to any self-respecting lounge musician. I still have that book in storage somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TowJam Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by Doug Gifford I suspect that I have been influenced by Jo Ann Castle the honky-tonk piano player. Not much I can do about it at this point, I suppose. And everyone was always so happy and smiling. Wunnerful, wunnerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Is that Ben Vereen lower left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TowJam Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by pighood Is that Ben Vereen lower left? No - Arthur Duncan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 O. I thought it was King Henry V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrcpro Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 I get sucked into watching a rerun every once in a while, simply because of the jaw-droppng virtuosoity of the musicians.... playing bland arrangements like madmen, and perpetually smiling when any one else would be sweating bullets. It's totally surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jigg Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by TowJamA few years after that, Peanuts gave my father a one of his fake books - over 1000 pages of photocopied sheet music from around the world. Highly illegal but a treasure to any self-respecting lounge musician. Very cool. And y'know what pisses me off about that statement? The fact that if that were done today, it probably would be legally pursued by the RIAA. It's sheet music, for gods sakes! Great, wonderful music to be played, sung, and generally performed out loud! And, from what I can tell, it was given- very generously- as a gift! Granted, Mr. Peanut probably didn't 'own' or 'create' any of the arrangements, but where else would you be able to find those tunes now outside of the infamous Real Books (and not the new '6th Edition' Hal Leonard knockoff)? /rant Anyways, yes, cheese taste good. Especially in such a pure form as Mr. Welk presented. He didn't make cheap Kraft Singles. His was a rich, aged brie or jarlsburg, best accompanied by a fine wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Lawrence was an @$$hole. I and my guitar player got kicked off an elevator by his two goon bodyguards one time because they wouldn't let anyone ride it with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by jigg His was a rich, aged brie or jarlsburg, best accompanied by a fine wine. A nice domestic bubbly would be appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by mate_stubb Lawrence was an @$$hole. I and my guitar player got kicked off an elevator by his two goon bodyguards one time because they wouldn't let anyone ride it with him. Say it ain't so! I just think of what he did for Larry Hoople, the bass singer. Larry got cancer of the larynx and wound up with a hole in his throat. But he learned to sing again by belching the notes up from his stomach and he was really pretty good at it. And still just smiling smiling. Gets me kinda misty-eyed even thinking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TowJam Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 But he learned to sing again by belching the notes up from his stomach and he was really pretty good at it. And what was the name of his band? THE ARISTOCRATS! (if you haven't seen the movie, this will mean absolutely nothing to you.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 I have a hunch Mr. Champagne Music never told The Aristocrats but if he did, it's safe to say he was smiling the whole time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Used to love watching Lawrence Welk when I was a kid. Just something about that innocence of yesteryear that was captivating to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Real MC Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 I used to watch that with my grandparents. Wunnerful, wunnerful, wunnerful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 12, 2006 Members Share Posted December 12, 2006 Originally posted by The Real MC I used to watch that with my grandparents. Wunnerful, wunnerful, wunnerful Ditto. I completely associate it with visiting my grandparents' house. Two other shows we'd watch were Don Messer's Jubilee and The Tommy Hunter Show. They sure don't make musical variety shows like they used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Allerian Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 Yeah, gotta come clean... love the Welk show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Raymar Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 I haven't watched the tube in over two months now and I'm going to leave it off for good. My grandfather was a dedicated Welk fan and he used to be a drummer in a pop little orchestra back in the 20s and 30s. For me though Welk makes all the music played just a little too white and snappy. I'd rather watch Desi Arnaz doing Cuban Pete. Anyway, Welk always had some cute chicks on the show even with the super square fashions and hair. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 total and complete dorks. run 'em back to back with 'hee-haw'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pink floyd cramer Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 Hey don't go slamming HeeHaw! At least they had real stars (like Merle Haggard) on the show. Best thing about Lawrence Welk was Jo Ann Castle- a badass boogie-woogie piano player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TowJam Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 Best thing about Lawrence Welk was Jo Ann Castle- a badass boogie-woogie piano player. For a sample of her playing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted December 13, 2006 Members Share Posted December 13, 2006 And here's the song by the composer Pinetop Perkins (from Amazon) compare and contrast [i believe that this gets at the whole LW thing--take great songs and rejig them for the geritol set circa 1965. Huge chops all round but, shall we say, a different aesthetic than mine.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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