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(9,177 posts)Ocelot II
(128,494 posts)
Yup. Every time Grandma came to visit.
WestMichRad
(2,834 posts)Im entitled to compensation, too!
Grokenstein
(6,218 posts)I mean, I probably wouldn't watch it today, but way back then we lived in the sticks, only had one channel, and it was either this or arguments that ended in violence. Believe me, Welk's show was something I looked forward to.
erronis
(22,130 posts)If it was your reality, I feel for you.
Otherwise it sounds like the beginning of a humorous tale.
I think we had 3 channels. Every now and then we'd watch Lawrence Welk for a bit but the cloying schtick got too much. Now Perry Como...
llmart
(17,188 posts)My father was a musician from that era and it was one of the few times he wouldn't be yelling at one of us or finding some work for us to do. I pretended to be interested in the show just to keep him happy.
Ocelot II
(128,494 posts)and IIRC there was some other show on at the same time that we kids wanted to watch, but Grandma had seniority (literally), so we just whined about how the music was dumb and awful until we were told to be nice and let Grandma enjoy her show.
BHDem53
(1,116 posts)Arthur Duncan was the man. An' a one, an' a two...
txwhitedove
(4,289 posts)House of Roberts
(6,335 posts)Finally it got replaced by Sha Na Na, and my dad heard how good a tenor the little guy named Johnny was. After that we always watched Sha Na Na.
JMCKUSICK
(4,734 posts)What a treat.
niyad
(128,910 posts)homegirl
(1,906 posts)the day..a thousand thanks...
question everything
(51,474 posts)justaprogressive
(6,037 posts)Never see pictures!
llmart
(17,188 posts)I laughed out loud at a few of them, but would never be able to pick only one favorite.
Thanks for the thread. I think we all needed to laugh for a change.
raccoon
(32,152 posts)mdbl
(7,902 posts)Grim Chieftain
(999 posts)Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I'm bookmarking it so I can read it when I need a good laugh. Needless to say, I'll be reading it often.
chowder66
(11,638 posts)sagetea
(1,534 posts)Thank you!!
riverbendviewgal
(4,382 posts)Thank you. For sharing. There was not one I didn't like.
Marthe48
(22,452 posts)One of my friends posted awhile back about a duet on Lawrence Welk singing One Toke Over the Line.
For your further entertainment:
ReRe
(12,162 posts)Thanks 3825-87867. You made my day!
orangecrush
(27,734 posts)Picaro
(2,310 posts)My favorite is the one about fast food.
And the table and the rug.
TommieMommy
(2,545 posts)malaise
(291,535 posts)😀
70sEraVet
(5,163 posts)I laughed at a bunch of them, but the "told my wife I wanted to be cremated" was my favorite!
















































