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

[Taylor Bowie]

Would just add that no one need sit through hours of Jimmy Roberts and Joe 
Feeney and Norma Zimmer and Aladdin's poetry recitations or those dismal 
country-western style vocals they had in the 70s,  etc. if you just go to 
YouTube and look at the Welk videos posted by "TVcollector71."  Not 
everything he posts is great jazz or great music but a lot of it is 
fantastic.

I won't bore you all further with my Welk Musical Crusade but would be happy 
to suggest some of the better ones if anyone wants to write me off line.

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodger Holtin" <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
To: "78-List" <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:13 PM
Subject: [78-L] Lawrence Welk's son said...


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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