[78-L] Lawrence Welk's son said...

[Rodger Holtin]

I picked this up from a couple different places, maybe in one of Welk's many books, but the one I'm sure of is a Larry Welk interview duiring one of those PBS fundraisers and he talked about old dad Lawrence's personal favorite music - The stuff he played on his home phonograph for his own enjoyment was....
.... I won't keep you in suspense...

stuff like Red Nichols Five Pennies, Louie Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke - hot jazz of the 1920s - the formative years for Welk's own band.  He knew it wouldn't sell like Bobby and Barbara and Myron Floren, but he liked best all the same.  Listen to some of those shows where he brings out the "dixieland" band stuff with guys like Dick Cathcart and or Skeets Herfurt - maybe not world-class all-time great, but very good stuff in its own right - especially in the context of television!   I can recall only one or two where he allowed it to get hokey, otherwise reasonably good 'dixie' style playing
The problem for guys like DL and others is you have to wade through hours of Joe Feenamint and Norma Zimmmmerrrrzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... and I don't blame you.
We let it play while we do the dishes and once in a while get lucky - but like any other instance of getting lucky - it's not very often.

Rodger



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