WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ROCK AND ROLL

...you're talking Lawrence Welk.

(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)

Update from Just Some Guy in the comments: Whoa.

Comments

[Guin]

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha *picks self up from floor*

[Cheesewiz]

A high water mark for American culture.

Where are the Lennon sisters?

[Ms. Flukey]

Bubbles! I want more bubbles!

[nursecindy]

Yes boys and girls we're a gonna get down and get funky. Loved the plaid pants on the male dancer. My grandpa in Georgia told me once that if I kept playing my guitar that someday I would be good enough to play on The Lawrence Welk Show. It was his favorite program and he never missed it. Unfortunately I never got good enough.

[Omniskeptic]

What terrible disease did Welk have that made him shake and twitch like that? Saddest thing I've seen in weeks.

[manual tomato]

Congers images of Howard Stern working as a judge on that show that aired in 2012.

[Jerald Nichols]

I'm 42 years old. My daughter and I watch the syndicated show every week; and I have a Lawrence Welk station on Pandora. Lawrence Welk is my biggest guilty pleasure. When my father-in-law found out, he couldn't stop laughing.

[padraig]

God help me, halfway through I thought, "Well all they need to complete this is for Bobby and Cissy to come out and start jitterbugging." And I must have woken up in hell this morning because they DID.

At least they didn't have the black guy come out and tap dance in his scarecrow outfit.

[padraig]

Um, tomato, that's "conjures." A conger is an eel. Although the way those dancers moved their hips, I can see how you might have had congers on the brain.

[padraig]

p.s. I saw "Congers on the Brain" open for Frank Zappa in 1979.

[manual tomato]

I was thinking of the baseball player when I wrote Congers. Tinkers to Chance to Hyun Choi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Conger

[Steve]

My wife's parents, both in their mid 80's, STILL watch Lawrence Welk. And it's ALWAYS ON THEIR TV.
I'm afraid to ask.

[Clankie]

" Bad...bad... White Bread Brown... "

[ligirl]

would've been much more entertaining if bobby was wearing a kilt

[PirateBoy]

Mrs. PirateBoy and I have stayed at the Lawrence Welk Resort near San Diego, several times. It's really a nice place, honest! But then again, we both LIKE Barry Manilow.

You all don't know what you're missing, you culture vultures!

[Just Some Guy]

Welk had a strong and successful rock 'n' roll period, but modern freedoms and lack of inhibition undid him. Eventually he was producing songs about reefer, and the end was clearly in sight.

[Jeff Meyerson]

OMGWTFBBQ? Dale and Gail doing "One Toke Over the Line"? And that outfit? Did she borrow it from Mary Ingalls?

[Suzy Q (the original)]

Oh, this brings back memories. I used to watch The Lawrence Welk Show with my grandmother, who was completely wasted on legal Quaaludes. Good times.

PS to padraig: That's not Cissy dancing with Bobby. Another fun fact is that Bobby isn't gay, which one might surmise from his costumes.

[Omniskeptic]

Yes, indeed, a conger is a kind of eel, and as we all know:

When an eel lunges out
And it bites off your snout
That's a moray!

I wish I'd said that, but alas, somebody else did.

[Karen G]

Looks like Lawrence is having a ball!

I used to have to watch this show with my grandmother years ago, when I was spending the weekend with her. And if I accidentally run across the reruns on PBS, I kind of get choked up, wishing she was still here to make me watch it with her again.

[Steve F]

That's an image that won't leave my brain, unfortunately. I'll get you for this, Dave. One of these days...

[Just Some Guy]

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

[sandbasser]

Just what i needed, an excuse to waste over an hour watching Lawrence Welk YouTube videos...smiled the whole time.

I love this blog!!!

[Wolfsong]

Ack....urgh....*choke*....vomit....

No, really. I'm ok.

Really.

[MOTW]

I can remember watching Lawrence Welk and as the camera panned the audience, I gasped at all thse people who were wearing GLASSES. In this day and age, people wear contact lenses, get braces and whiten their teeth, and don't have acne. Back in the day (on the LW show), it was normal to wear glasses (horned rims), have zits, and yellow crooken teeth.

[MOTW]

n = d
adjusts bifocals

[Wolfsong]

"Unleash the Crooken!"

[Omniskeptic]

I'm afraid we've gone one joke over the line ...

[tinatalker]

OMG, I've just spit tea all over my desk reading these comments. Poor Jim Croce, must be rolling in his grave.

[Lisap]

Who would be cruel enough to kill a ferret, wash and blow dry it and put it on that nice man's head?

[marina_like_a_boatdock]

It was good...AND bad...it was BAAAAAAAD! also fun to show to grandkids and watch their jaws drop in disbelief, LOL! p.s., i love it.