Just found out my friend LOVES to watch the Lawrence Welk reruns on PBS

[Justice wanted]

BECAUSE "it has the GOOD Wholesome values today's society is lacking today".


Ever since she married her Husband she's been crazy.

[siligut]

1. My closest friend when I was young . . .

Now as an adult enjoys Lawrence Welk, her parents watched it and she has returned to their values. Needless to say, she is a repug now and we don't keep in touch.

[Tabasco_Dave]

2. Some people just become boring and conservative. n/t

[hifiguy]

3. I stumbled across them a few times on one of the local PBS stations

and found them really creepy. The Lennon Sisters were the only act that held up out of the weird, audio-animatronic context of the Welk show.

Never saw it as a kid. In my boyhood my family watched Jackie Gleason (mom) or All-Star Wrestling (dad) on Saturday nights. I'd wander back and forth between the two.

[CBGLuthier]

4. She must have never seen this one then

[marzipanni]

7. That's funny! I had to look up the history this, both versions recorded in 1971

I was 20 then, and remember hearing the Brewer & Shipley version it on the radio.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2506

[MadrasT]

5. I actually like to watch them too

It's a combination of remembering watching them with my grandpa when I was little... and laughing my ass off at how tacky and creepy it is.

[Wait Wut]

6. The husband and I ran across Welk one nite.

We were hypnotized. Then his drummer and guitar player walked into the house. I'm not sure which was funnier, the husband trying to justify sitting around on a Friday nite before a gig watching Lawrence Welk, or the drummer trying to convince the guitar player that they should all wear matching leisure suits...seriously.

[madinmaryland]

8. Time to get a new friend!

[jakeXT]

9. I only knew about his no.1 hit "Calcutta" from the album Ultra Lounge Space Capades 3