Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 08, 2019

I’ll stick with Alfred Yankovic when it comes to accordions, thanks.

I know most of them because my father was a big fan. Many of his VHS tapes have a show at the end of the tape.

We always watched that show. We always said a 1 and a 2 and a 3 and loved when the bubbles came down. :)

Jo Ann Castle! mmmmm

He’s still a-one-ing on the educational channel. Don’t know if they are showing the Lennon Sister years or not.

Who was the handsome older fellow – silver hair and a moustache – who was only allowed to sing “silly songs”? Welk said the man was so popular that if he’d ever sung a love song they would have been buried in fan mail. I think his initials were A.R.

I loved the old Irish Tenor, Joe Feeney……ah what a voice…… :)

I always tell people I was raised on Johnny Cash and Lawrence Welk! My mom was a big fan and had gone to his resort in California once. A few years before she passed, I took her to Branson to the Welk Champagne theater to see the show and she sat near the front blowing bubbles from a little bottle. We met Jo Ann Castle and two of the Sisters, Diane and Janet. She was in heaven! At her funeral, the organist played music in the background while we gave our eulogies and had a bubble machine! It was great to remember her passion.

Gotta say having had to watch the show sure made me appreciate a broader spectrum of music than I might have done!

That show and “Sing along with Mitch” were my dad’s favorites. Only person in the family with a good singing voice.

Bobby and Cissy AND Arthur Duncan, WOW he could TAP

My mother and grandmother LOVED Lawrence Welk. I can remember some of the early performers, but the later ones (after I left home) not so much.

That show was really white.

Just barely old enough to have watched a few of his shows. My parents weren’t big on watching TV, but that was one show they would watch now and then.

Hearing the name “Lawrence Welk” makes me feel like a little girl again, at Grandma and Grandpa’s house, watching all the entertainers, surrounded by love. (Mom and Dad would sometimes use the time to have a little outing for themselves.) Nowadays, ex-hubby has mentioned that he watches the show, but I’m not sure what channel it is on. Something on cable, I’m sure.