Lawrence Welk
 

There's a Lawrence Welk special on tonight, and I gotta ask -- does anybody still watch?

We used to at my grandmother's house 50 years ago and even then it was a show geared towards the older generation. Now I'm my grandmother's age, but I just can't with him, even for nostalgia's sake.

Nope. Never did, never will.

Not if I can humanly avoid it. Never did like his show even though my mother adored him.

Watched it with my parents. I liked the Lennon Sisters. But no, don't watch it anymore.

Well, sure. They were the Rihanna of their day. :)

I enjoy watching it now and then. It is pretty hokey but it takes me back to my youth watching it with my parents.

My grandmother from Europe would visit us when I was a child and she adored him.

I understand their theater in Branson still sells out, the donations to PBS seem to continue the demand, and when the members tour they still fill the smaller venues.

I know exactly what you mean.

I will confide with this group what I have whispered to others that I could trust with this secret. We own timeshare and two years ago when we stayed in San Diageo [El Secondo or something like that] we traded our unit for a unit at the Lawrence Welk Resort.

Once upon a time I had a pony tail, wore patched jeans and partied at Grateful Dead concerts. Now I'm trading Hilton Heads weeks for the big "One-na and a Two-a" man with the bubble machine. My freak flag was flying at half massed that week. I let the team down.

Don't share this with anyone.

Exactly my sentiments.

Ha, your secret is safe with me.

We also went to the Timeshare with my Grandma years ago and we all enjoyed the place. It was beautiful. I think it was in Escondido CA.

Aw, man! I feel so let down. ;)

And what about Liberace? I did enjoy him, even as a kid, but I swear none of us even considered the thought that he might be gay. It simply wasn't a part of the conversation, at least outside Hollywood circles. "He's such an entertainer! So flamboyant and outrageous! Too bad he hasn't found a nice woman to settle down with."

I grew up in the same town as Cissy King, one of the dancers on the Lawrence Welk show; I remember dancing with her a few times. She was very pretty as well as athletic in high school and college.

The lonely divorced mother of one of my guy friends in grade school used to watch and loved Liberace. Somehow I sensed, mostly from his smile, he was gay even way back then.

In the last couple of years I tuned into a few Lawrence Welk reruns and watched them just for fun. Frankly, I prefer Hee Haw reruns because I had a crush on Sunshine Cornsilk (Lisa Todd).

That's just great. That's the place. Me and your grandma thought it was wonderful. Did you her eyes also get watery when she saw his poured concrete concrete statue? Et Tu Brute?