Lawrence Welk Appreciation Thread

[tucktronix]

Originally posted by pink floyd cramer 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.

 

 

Right on, PFC!

 

Hee Haw was part of my Sunday night ritual: Hee Haw, then Lawrence Welk, then Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom:thu:

[pighood]

Jeesh...you sound as old as me.

[thefunkman]

I met Welk's old accordionist, Myron Floren, about 15 years ago. Nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. And he still had some chops and a twinkle in his eye...he was probably approaching 80 years old at the time.

[pink floyd cramer]

Originally posted by tucktronix Right on, PFC! Hee Haw was part of my Sunday night ritual: Hee Haw, then Lawrence Welk, then Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom:thu:

HeeHaw always had some old hillbilly sitting on a bale of hay picking the hell out of "Yakety Axe", unfortunately he would be upstaged by a chorus line of animated dancing pigs. They were going to loan the pigs out to Lawrence but JoAnn threatened to cut them up for bacon. JoAnn was a rough woman, heard that her and Pinetop had a "thang".

[pink floyd cramer]

Originally posted by Doug Gifford 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.]

 

 

Today, substitute viagra for geritol- and viagra has it's own soundtrack.. If LW was still being filmed, Eric Clapton would duet with Lawrence on "Wunnerful, Wunnerful Tonight".