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Originally Posted by Dess
Sunday was Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom. It was followed by Disney.

Yep, and it was always a mad rush to get my bath done after supper and before Wild Kingdom started.


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Originally Posted by 5sdad

Many here probably remember him, but are unaware that he had two daughters: Anna 1, Anna 2.



(Groan!!!)

That one took me a moment. My grandparents used to watch him faithfully every Saturday evening Bubbles and polka music. Torture for us kids.


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He was a talented musician and a talented businessman. It has been the “cool” thing to make fun of anything middle class/white for decades, now. Folks need to quit “pizzing on the graves” of their forebears, whether it be polka/country/Welk music/whatever. Have some respect for some folks that were trying to entertain with at least a modicum of dignity and “class”, and actually had some talent to back it up. Back when the “adults” ran things....

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Paternal grandmother had a HUGE thing for Myron Floren. She was devout Catholic, but I'm fairly sure she lusted in her heart for that accordion dude.





For a month or 2, I wanted to be Henry Cuesta.





I got over it.


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Grandparents on Mom’s side never missed it. Had to endure when there.

But...it was definitely a marker of a better time. Wish it were on today...would mean things are better.

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Grandparents never missed it...we kids couldn't stand it of course.

Agree with the others though, it was a better time.

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In this same vein:

Molly B or Cardi B?

Discuss.


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Originally Posted by Ghostinthemachine
Grandparents never missed it...we kids couldn't stand it of course.

Agree with the others though, it was a better time.


Yep. My grandparents never missed an episode.


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I have watched many a Lawrence Welk show. My mom and dad loved that show. It didn't think it was a bad show. I enjoyed it. It certainly was a different time in America. We also watched Hee Haw as well. That was probably my dad's favorite TV show.

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Welk, who paid the minimum union scale to his cast. "We worked at group scale, which was $110 a week, for 10 years," Kathy Lennon recalled. "After that he agreed to pay us solo scale, $210 a week.May 19, 1992

And he was cheap with the lighting too.... looked like an American soap opera or a Brit series.


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I loved LW as a 6yr old in 1970.
Totally awesome show.
Always looked forward to seeing it.

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It’s good for zoning-out and crapping your pants.

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My parents and grandmother drug me to Abilene to see him when I was a kid.

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Originally Posted by 5sdad
Many here probably remember him, but are unaware that he had two daughters: Anna 1, Anna 2.
Yeah - funny recall - and a bunch of other idiosyncrasies. I was working on big band jazz at the time and watched him quite a bit for a while - even though I thought the arrangements were very "square" - because the players in that band were excellent musicians. I remember cracking up when he introduced a tune "Now we are going to play that great Duke Ellington piece - Take A Train." Thanks for the thread.


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One of the instruments of torture my parents subjected me to as a young boy was the phenomenon known as the variety show.


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It was awful. Worse even than the Barbara Mandrel show....


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Originally Posted by BRISTECD
My parents and grandmother drug me to Abilene to see him when I was a kid.



Better than Aerosmith in Augusta Maine I bet in 78.
LW probably didnt pass the fugg out on stage after the 3rd song like ST did..

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Originally Posted by Crow hunter
In all seriousness though, the mention of Lawrence Welk brings back memories of when America was a better place. A time before everything on TV was 99% gay and interracial couples. I remember my folks tuning into The Lawrence Welk Show when I was a kid, I'm 52 now. If I'd known enough I might have thought it was corny, but I sure wish we had a lot more of that now than what currently occupies the airways. The America that Lawrence Welk inhabited is long gone.


I always believed, and have heard repeatedly that Lawrence Welk was as queer as they come. But I believe that of almost everyone who appears on television. Seems to me that the entire TV industry is/was built by the queers.

And there were TV shows that I liked as a kid. But I think all of the TV heroes did some strange stuff to get their part in any show...

Rock stars much the same in my view...

Country stars too, maybe....


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Grandparents never missed it...we kids couldn't stand it of course.

Agree with the others though, it was a better time.


Yep. My grandparents never missed an episode.



Mine didn't either.

My old grandad would say "I'll watch it til that tap dancing "n" comes on, then I'll go to bed."

He did too! He wouldn't watch it.

I imagine he would shoot the TV now, if he were still around to see what a chitshow it's become.


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For as lame as it was/is, I got to admit it was a better time in the world.

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