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.
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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'm 70, and of course it's very easy to say that the America of the Lawrence Welk era was a better place, especially when it comes to the fact that queers, trannies, Negroes, and Communists weren't being thrown in our faces every day. It was a time when the crime rate was very low, especially in the rural area I grew up in. But, there is also a flip side, and today's quality of life is much better, people are receiving much better medical care now, and there are many things about the current time period we're living in that I wouldn't want to give up.
However, as a whole, the America of the 1960's was a time period that I could very easy live in again if it were possible.
100% agree. For those who need a little help, Molly B is the singer/trumpet/tenor-Saxopohone/keyboard player in the VFW re-opening/Polka scene of Clint Eastwood's "The Mule".
Kardi B is the "artist" responsible for "WAP".
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
My Great grandpa went to school with Lawrence Welk in Strasburg ND till 3rdgrade.
I read his wiki page, pretty interesting. Born in 1903 to homesteaders. Quit school after grade 4 to help work the farm. Couldn't speak English at all until he was 21, he spoke German and never became comfortable speaking English. Left the farm at 21 and worked his way to the top.