How Gay is Bobby on the Lawrence Welk Show?

[bamademo]

Tonight I watched him dance in a purple lame cowboy suit. Someone should make a "Gayest Moments on Lawrence Welk" DVD. Did people have a clue in the 60's and 70's? :-)

[yardwork]

1. That would be a multi-disc DVD set

[MissB]

6. .

:rofl:

[Kingofalldems]

2. I'm old enough to remember when

he was a Mouseketeer in the 50's. BTW, he was married to one of the other dancers on the Welk show.

[bamademo]

5. I remember him as a Mouseketeer

Looked gay to me even when I was a little girl. It's that big fake smile.

Edited to correct too much Merlot. :evilgrin:

[Kingofalldems]

7. He was always disturbing

to me. You are right---he NEVER stopped smiling. Totally showbiz. I'll bet he had a stage mother--I can picture her standing in the wings with one of those giant Hedda Hopper hats!

[tuvor]

3. Cissy's way more butch.

She's got some great gams, too.

[terrya]

4. There were some people who didn't think Liberace was gay.

Including most of his fan base (the little old ladies who were fans)/

I really doubt if any Welk fans wanted to speculate on the perfect little Welk family...especially their personal lives.

[Blue-Jay]

9. Welk wasn't gay, BUT

He was "teh ghey" in the vernacular of the internets. Meaning that the whole show was lame. That clarinet player (I forget his name) was very talented, however. Not quite Eddie Daniels good, but better than Pete Fountain.

[terrya]

10. I would cringe wihen Arthur Duncan would perform.

It was so...stereotypical. I mean, he was talented and all, but still...Welk couldn't hire any other African-Americans?

[Blue-Jay]

11. No. Black guys wouldn't have "played well" in Peoria.

The Welk show was for white people only. It's a sad indication of the time that it was produced. Every time I watched reruns of that show, I wanted to punch them in the face for being so...well...white. I don't doubt that some of the musicians knew that they owed a great debt to many of the black jazz artists who came before them, but the show was so damned vanilla that it was laughable.

[MuseRider]

12. Didn't they call him

Peanuts? I remember, as a young clarinet player, that my grandparents would call me every time "Peanuts" was playing a solo and my parents would run over and make me listen. He was good but gag a maggot that show sucked.

[TheMightyFavog]

13. Like my Grandma McDonnell

Denied that he was gay until her first stroke pretty well much destroyed her memory.

[Dr Fate]

8. Someone should make a "Mighty Wind" or "Spinal Tap" parody of that show.

Think of the rampant drug abuse, alcoholism, closeted gayness and other deviance that can be infered.

I love to watch the show for that very reason.

[FuzzySlippers]

14. I was flipping around the dial

and had to stop and watch for a few minutes's like you have to stop and watch a train wreck. Who's that guy with the big, poufy blonde hair who looks like he's wearing mascara? The tall singer.