Lawrence Welk C or C?

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Is there anything better than this?

― Senior Citizen (x Jeremy), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk for bio

Welk's California automobile license plate read A1ANA2, referencing his trademark count-off before each number, "A one, and a two..."

His band continues to appear in a dedicated theater in Branson, Missouri even though Welk is now deceased. A retirement resort community in Escondido, California is named after Welk.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.the-forum.com/ephemera/images/welk1.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i can imagine nothing better, honestly.
http://www.oeta.onenet.net/welk%20color%202.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got his autobiography around here, found it for a dime or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i read somewhere (maybe the linked wikipedia bio) that mr. welk's first language was german even though he was born in north dakota -- which i find interesting in that this is one example of his being from an america that is long past. there's also something to be said for his sticking to his thing for as long as he did -- looked at that way, then whether i, or any other ILXor, actually liked his music is beside the point.

he also reminds me of all of the polish weddings i've been to in my life w/ polkas and accordians.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife owns all 13 or so of the Lennon Sisters albums. Recently, I cleaned all of her old vinyl and repaired her turntable and to test the results, put them on. Y'know, they were pretty good. Not my cup of tea, exactly, but still...

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I find it odd (and this may be the whisky speaking) that at my advanced age -- 23 -- I still find Lawrence Welk entertaining in a more-than-ironic way. I actually enjoy his show. Not that I find the music on it decent or listenable, but it's generally quite sweet.

The C or C breakdown as follows

C[1]- classic; good, strange, reliquary genius. A sad and superceded vassal of antediluvian genius.

{OR}

C[2] - ironic; sincere, insane, misguided spearhead of a since-nonexistent trope. A sad and superceded vassal of antediluvian genius.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always felt vaguely irritated by people that overenthusiastically embrace their ethnicity, but Lawrence Welk does make me feel something positive about being a midwestern German catholic.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 17 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Branson is the weirdest place on earth.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 17 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, he has more than one autobiography. Or, rather, there's a sequel to his first autobiography.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Zeldman Page about Lawrence Welk

― Dante, Der Führer (Sean3), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

oh, my mom's fave tenor died.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2008-04-22-feeney_N.htm

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

I couldn't find him on YouTube. I wonder whether anyone has put anything up since he died.

― Casuistry, Friday, 25 April 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

"Turn off the bubble machine-uh!"

Stan Freberg's Welk parody officially the funniest thing ever. And it invents Mark E Smith.

― Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I Never Went Away! (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

lol @ this contemptuous asshole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmSv2WFDrs

― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:49 (thirteen years ago)

but also not at all, obv. (culture) war is hell, etc.

― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:51 (thirteen years ago)

Have you flipped your bippy?!

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

So censored.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka New Romantic Marxists (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE

― smears for fears (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2024 15:57 (one year ago)

Was that show filmed live? Seems like they could have edited out his throat-clearing. Unless that was a planned segue into the "One Toke" song.

― henry s, Thursday, 17 October 2024 16:30 (one year ago)

Welk had no idea it was about weed

― smears for fears (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2024 16:45 (one year ago)

Dude also claimed his music was "champagne music" while never touching a glass himself. "My doctor says I can't have it..." OK nerd.

― Josefa, Friday, 18 October 2024 03:37 (one year ago)

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