Tonight I watched him dance in a purple lame cowboy suit. Someone should make a "Gayest Moments on Lawrence Welk" DVD. Did people have a clue in the 60's and 70's? :-)
to me. You are right---he NEVER stopped smiling. Totally showbiz. I'll bet he had a stage mother--I can picture her standing in the wings with one of those giant Hedda Hopper hats!
He was "teh ghey" in the vernacular of the internets. Meaning that the whole show was lame. That clarinet player (I forget his name) was very talented, however. Not quite Eddie Daniels good, but better than Pete Fountain.
11. No. Black guys wouldn't have "played well" in Peoria.
The Welk show was for white people only. It's a sad indication of the time that it was produced. Every time I watched reruns of that show, I wanted to punch them in the face for being so...well...white. I don't doubt that some of the musicians knew that they owed a great debt to many of the black jazz artists who came before them, but the show was so damned vanilla that it was laughable.
Peanuts? I remember, as a young clarinet player, that my grandparents would call me every time "Peanuts" was playing a solo and my parents would run over and make me listen. He was good but gag a maggot that show sucked.
and had to stop and watch for a few minutes's like you have to stop and watch a train wreck. Who's that guy with the big, poufy blonde hair who looks like he's wearing mascara? The tall singer.
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