The Lawrence Welk Show

[jamespowers]

Easy. Just tell Mr. Welk. And when he protests, reply that champagne is just fermented dope with bubbles.

More like fermented hippies with smoke.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

How did my innocent thread about clean, wholesome fun on TV become a thread about dope smoking? [huh]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

How did my innocent thread about clean, wholesome fun on TV become a thread about dope smoking? [huh]

Go back a few posts. Turns out that Johnny Cash's dope-smoking tune, "One Toke Over the Line", was sung on the Lawrence Welk Show.

 

[jamespowers]

Go back a few posts. Turns out that Johnny Cash's dope-smoking tune, "One Toke Over the Line", was sung on the Lawrence Welk Show.

Yes indeed. Poor Lawrence was conned.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Go back a few posts. Turns out that Johnny Cash's dope-smoking tune, "One Toke Over the Line", was sung on the Lawrence Welk Show.

Oh, I missed that. Thanks!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Welk wouldn't have been in the music business for fifty years without knowing about such things -- in the Era, touring musicians were the reefer peddler's number one customers. Even musicians in "mickey mouse" bands were known to indulge.

(I have a hilarious radio recording from 1934 featuring Ozzie Nelson's rendition of "Reefer Man." The only thing funnier would be a Welk rendition of the same number.)

 

[jamespowers]

Welk wouldn't have been in the music business for fifty years without knowing about such things -- in the Era, touring musicians were the reefer peddler's number one customers. Even musicians in "mickey mouse" bands were known to indulge.

(I have a hilarious radio recording from 1934 featuring Ozzie Nelson's rendition of "Reefer Man." The only thing funnier would be a Welk rendition of the same number.)

I don't know. The Village People said they didn't what they were singing about.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

What on earth????????????

http://gawker.com/5877503/eight+year+old-girl-releases-first-relevant-hardcore-song-in-two-decades

This was just in my facebook feed. I need some LW right now!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Welk wouldn't have been in the music business for fifty years without knowing about such things --

Yep. The key question is not whether Mr. Welk knew, but whether his show's target audience would know. It's pretty safe to bet that most of them wouldn't ... so Mr. Welk's show was 'home free' to play the song. (Apparently, the censors were asleep on the job that day.)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

What on earth????????????

http://gawker.com/5877503/eight+year+old-girl-releases-first-relevant-hardcore-song-in-two-decades

This was just in my facebook feed. I need some LW right now!

An eight-year-old girl who hates frat boys. Such good sense for someone so young.


The video shows that it's just a silly, gimmicky 'novelty' song with a kid in it. Every country in the world has its own gimmicky kid-sung songs: they usually come out in the summertime, along with other mindless summer songs. (It's summertime in Australia right now.)

 

[jamespowers]

What on earth????????????

http://gawker.com/5877503/eight+year+old-girl-releases-first-relevant-hardcore-song-in-two-decades

This was just in my facebook feed. I need some LW right now!

Someone needs to tell her that stinks. lol

 

[jamespowers]

Yep. The key question is not whether Mr. Welk knew, but whether his show's target audience would know. It's pretty safe to bet that most of them wouldn't ... so Mr. Welk's show was 'home free' to play the song. (Apparently, the censors were asleep on the job that day.)

That is a pretty good point. Our grandparents might have even gone around singing it after hearing it on the show! :rofl:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I seldom watch those shows. I prefer Andy Griffith and the Beverly Hillbillies.

One of my friends has tastes very similar to yours (though I don't think he's a Lawrence Welk fan). Lemme guess... Were some of your other favorite TV shows Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons?

I mean, I'm surprised that nobody tried to stop him from airing this.

How do you tell Lawrence Welk that you want to sing a dope smoking song?

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I love Little House on the Prairie but not The Waltons. I also love Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver.

 

[jamespowers]

I mean, I'm surprised that nobody tried to stop him from airing this.

Well they would have to understand what it meant first.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Don't confuse being "square" with being naive. Just saying.

 

[jamespowers]

Don't confuse being "square" with being naive. Just saying.

I am sure it has more to do with terminology than being naive. I know someone's father who mistook what they were say to be one toe over the line so it takes on a new meaning.

 

[Retro_GI_Jane]

One of my friends has tastes very similar to yours (though I don't think he's a Lawrence Welk fan). Lemme guess... Were some of your other favorite TV shows Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons?

The Waltons are awesome! Watching the Christmas movie was always a tradition at my grandparents. The sisters and their family "recipe" always crack me up.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Wunnerful? Wunnerful!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I actually *had* the Lawrence Welk Musical Spoons. A christmas present my mother lived to regret.