OT Lawrence Welk

As usual for Saturday night, I watched Lawrence Welk on PBS, it takes me back somewhere between 50 and 60 years ago when I watched it each Saturday night with my Grandparents on an old small round screen fuzzy snowy rolling up n down TV. Of course, I didnt appreciate it at the time, but when I take that hour now it returns my heart and soul back to that very time and its so soothing and comforting. For an hour its like Im right there with them again and it just brings such peace........If I ever go to Branson the Lawrence Welk Theater is the first place I plan to visit......

Ol John T

"....Memories are moments that you borrow to spend when you get to tomorrow....."

John, you are so right! Those were some of the best, if not THE best times this country ever experienced!

I watched it with my grandparents, as well, although it was only 40 years ago and they may have been reruns at that point. Funny thing, my 2-year-old son is mesmerized by that show. He couldn't care less about TV, otherwise.

My dad said he was at a dance when lawrance was playing. He was just starting out then in Dakota.

I remember watching with my parents as a late teenager. Pretended that I thought they were "square", but secretly I enjoyed them all: Joe Feeney, Larry Hooper, Joann Castle, Myron Floren and the uh-lovely little-uh Lennon Sisters! Turn on the bubble machine!

I catch it every now and then. Back in the late 50's Dad got us a tv. It was a time when the whole familg was to gether to watch the tv shows. It was a time in my life I will always cherish. Stan

I remember my grandparents watching that show too in the mid, late-70s. My sister and I and one of my cousins would make fake gaging sounds and whine about how terrible the music was. I was 10 or so at the time.
Of course.....A 10 year old has no concept of any music quality or the fact that the people on the show singing or playing an instrument were dressed properly on TV. Now a days the women would be dressed like tramps and the guys would look like hoodlums, just look at the show called the voice. My wife watches this crap.

Can"t add much more to what you said than "Bingo!" I think we are about the same age so I didn"t appreciate it back then either. Now my wife and I watch it every Saturday night during supper and get this--three grandsons (9, 8, and 5) are glued to the show on the weekends they are here with us. Go figure....

When I was young my dad used to send me to my grandmas house to help her with her garden and lawn,on sat night we watched him too.I didnt like it then,but I sure do have great memorys of my grandma teaching me about the garden, One thing she really liked to do before frst hit was have me pick all the green tomatoes so she could wrap them each in newspaper and put them in brown paper bags,then when we had them at sunday dinner with all the family well into early winter she would bragg that the tomatoes in the salad were from her garden,Thank you for reviving some grear memorys of days gone by

I am on the board at Prairie Village Madison SD. we have the Lawrence Welk Opera House on our site it was moved from oldham SD about 30 years ago. Welk played for many dances there when he was getting started we are holding our 50th av this year check us out on the net at www.prairievillage.org

Prairie Home Companion gives me the same feeling. Remember listening in the car going to church with my parents. Only see them a couple times a year now. Car Talk is good for making me think of my dad. We'd always answer the callers' question before Click and Clack did.

Same for me. Takes me back to sitting in the little dining room off the big kitchen at our restaurant with my maternal grandmother and mother. Every Saturday evening was the about the same. As I got older I fell in love with Anacani, an angel on earth if there ever was one. Thankfully, she hasn't aged a second in 40 some years!

Never did care for Bobby the ex-Mouseketeer or that tall blond guy Tom something that got on in the mid 70's. Lawrence had a couple sets of twins in their late teens/early 20's that pegged my creep meter out too. But overall, I loved it.

Anyone else old enough to recall Pete Fountain on the show or that Henri guy that sort of took his place? I could listen to clarinet like that all day! Those cats were hot! And Neil LaVray on the guitar, he was always good too.

Great memories. Thanks!

Lawrence Welk show sure is a time capsule. I remember Dad always watched him back in the 70's. I remember Bobby and Cissy dancing, Guy and Ralna's duets, Arthur Duncan's tap dancing. Pretty good wholesome family entertainment.

You know you are getting old when Lawrence Welk starts getting cool!

I started watching Lawrence Welk as a kid, because my parents wanted to watch the show, and if Welk was on, our TV would be on that channel, no matter what else I might have wanted to have on...but a funny thing: I still watch Lawrence Welk every chance I get, because I LIKE IT! I am very pleased that the shows were preserved and that PBS has them on most weeks, still on Saturday night, just like when I was growing up.

While I thought some of the skits were kind of corny, and especially in the later years, the choices of music seemed to stray from what Lawrence Welk was all about, I always enjoyed the shows. The musicians were all top notch professionals, and some of them were among the best that existed. The show was unlike anything else on the air.

It also always had a "family" feel to it, and I felt like I knew many of the performers as friends. We went to some of their live shows, and the performers came out and visited with the audience after the shows. They were just like they seemed on TV, nice and friendly.

I hope PBS will continue to broadcast Lawrence Welk shows forever, and I give them money earmarked as being for Lawrence Welk to help insure that it will continue. I do wish they would not use so many of the same shows they had on over the last couple of years. I remember the repeats that are that recent.

One of the truly great shows of all time!