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

[Taylor Bowie]

I wonder if she knew my great-grandma , who was born in 1870,  and also 
loved Welk...especially Jimmy Roberts and Joe Feeney!  She also had a great 
appreciation for Aladdin's poetry recitations,  which had every other family 
member running for the hills.  As I remember,  a lot of the poems were by 
the "bard of the greeting-card" Helen Steiner Rice...but what reads OK in an 
anniversary or birthday card can get pretty excruciating when stretched out 
to a three-minute spoken epic.

As I said,  with the YouTube posts you can cut out all the dreck and just 
enjoy some great music...just gotta pick and choose!

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martha" <MLK402 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lawrence Welk's son said...


> My Great-Grandma (born 1878) loved the Welk program, but she was so deaf 
> in
> the 1960s that the TV had to be turned WAY up.  She had that part of the
> house to herself for that hour.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rodger Holtin" <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:13 AM
> 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
>
>
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
>
>
> ..
>
>
>
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