We watched LW as a family. My Mom and Dad put up with "Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show" and my Sister and I put up with the Lawrence Welk Show, just for more years. I liked the accordion player, Myron Floren. I tried playing that squeeze box a few times, but could never get my fingers to cooperate with my mind.
Is anyone else traumatized by Lawrence Welk??
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Read on Wiki that he fired one of his singers because he thought her skirt was too short, but the fans protested and he had to hire her back. The show is described as soft, sweet and 'staid' and appealing to older folks of that era. The music was described as soft and lulling, different from the harder edged Glenn Miller big band sound. However, he was successful and the show ran on from 1955 until around 1982.
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I’d forgotten that William Lennon (father of the Lennon Sisters) was murdered by some crazed delusional stalker in 1969. Lennon was only 53, and the guy (who had a fantasy romantic relationship with Peggy Lennon) shot Lennon in a parking lot, and later shot himself.
This was overshadowed because the news was focusing on the Sharon Tate/LaBianca murders by the Manson clan which had taken place the previous week.
This was overshadowed because the news was focusing on the Sharon Tate/LaBianca murders by the Manson clan which had taken place the previous week.