Ah-One, Ah-Two: Life with My Musical Family
Welk with McGeehan
1974
My America, Your America
Welk with McGeehan
1976
Submitter: Here are two of the four Lawrence Welk biographies in our collection. The full color foldout of the whole cast is my favorite.
Holly: There is a special place in my heart for Lawrence Welk. My dad was a high school band director, and the Lawrence Welk show was shown faithfully in my house every week of my childhood, without fail. (So was Hee-Haw. My dad is “well-rounded” fellow.) I can see having a Lawrence Welk biography (if it still circulates) in a public library, but four is pushing it.
These are really neat, actually. My grandmother *loved* his show!
How much activity did he have in two years to fill the second book?
There were a lot of Lawrence Welk questions in the game Trivia Pursuit from the 80’s. My grandparents must have seen ever episode. With out a doubt, they knew every answer to my Dad’s chagrin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE “One Toke Over The Line” on Lawrence Welk, 1972. Just popped into my head.
Sorry, 1971, not 1972.
I note that he didn’t mind advertising Claude Short Dodge. Good guy though from what I gather.
I don’t feel as kindly toward Mr. Welk. While I don’t remember how my parents and grandparents managed it, I found myself somehow forced into watching the show that I found hokey even at a young age. I also remember that Lawrence Welk jokes and parodies were all the rage at school. A one, two, three and turn on the bubble machine.
That child in the last picture seems to have remarkably large feet.