The Lawrence Welk Show vs. Hee Haw

hee haw

Gingham cleavage beats lavender dirndls.

I searched the world over and thought I found true love,
But you met another and FFFFTTTT you was gone.

GERITOL (Calcutta)

hee haw romo

haw indistries

no comedy sketches on Welk, so HH

there weren't?

Hee-Haw had the best scene transitions, from an animated donkey braying across the screen to Roy Clark laughing at something on stage right and then looking straight into the camera to go, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. George Jones!"

There is something just so clean, pure and unaware about the Lawrence Welk show, where perfectly coifed white people sing uplifting songs with the lights in their eyes, and you just know that afterward, their only thoughts are of "Boy, we put on a good show!" It's damn near perverse, and plus Lawrence Welk had some awesome crowd shots.

LW show is hypnotic

Did he actually have a bubble machine and was it ever turned off?

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I searched the world over and thought I found true love,
But you met another and FFFFTTTT you was gone.

^^^^^^ OTMx1000000

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RIP Don Harron

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/don-harron-dead-charlie-farquharson-1201408505/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_q5cjRjJw

http://i.imgur.com/8T8QziG.gif

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

"The Welk Barn is pretty much a typical prairie barn. It's not the Cadillac of barns. It's not a bad barn. It's kind of a typical barn."

God I hate Midwestern humblebragging

little known fact: Lawrence Welk took a small dose of LSD every day

And those weren't really bubbles!

Roy Clark has passed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/country-star-roy-clark-has-died-at-age-85-according-to-his-publicist/2018/11/15/724c5d7a-e8fa-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue...

Had just been marveling at this earlier in the week. So many notes, yet so light and swinging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d8KtpIoEQ

This early clip, my god.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8

RIP Roy

I don't think Lawrence Welk's big band could deliver anything like that "Take the A Train"

People Whom I Thought Had Died Already.

I did not know Hee Haw was the replacement for the cancelled Smothers Brothers Show until I read this article by Roy Clark.

RIP, Roy.

Roy has nicer things to say about Hee Haw than Buck.

Had

Been reading about Roy in the 1950s after he moved from Va to Washington DC. He lived in southeast DC when it was mostly white. He began playing at DC and Md roadhouse bars that existed then. One of them, the Quonset Hut later became a go-go Funk club, but it’s now closed.

SALESGUY: Boy, my dad loved Roy Clark.

SALESLADY: Yeah, most white people did.