Because if I was home on a Saturday night and this was on the TV, we would all have to watch a few minutes of it, just to share a laugh and a memory. As we approach Christmas, I thought I would share with you a little childhood memory.
The holidays specials are always the best, the beehives seem to be taller and the dresses more sparkly, you just gotta love it. You can’t fault Lawrence Welk though, you would be hard pressed today to find a show that is not only family based on screen, but one that was the same off the air as well. She would continue to say how many children he had, to which with a glimmer in his eye, my Grandpa would reply that is the only way his wife could get him to be quiet, he would wink at us and my sister and I would just bust out laughing. My Nana, loved Joe Feeney and every time he would come on, she would mention what a beautiful voice he had, to which my Grandpa would roll his eyes. My family has so many little inside jokes regarding this show, when certain cast members came on stage, I can hear what they would say about them and I can’t help myself, I just bust out laughing. You watch the show and you just have to smile. It is something, I have even indoctrinated my British husband in to as well. You know it is bad when on a Saturday night in College, you are the only person left in your dorm as you work away on a term paper and you turn on Lawrence Welk for company, because it makes you feel closer to home. It somehow gets into your bones this show. As we would lie in bed laughing hysterically. Going to the beach house in the Summer, my mom and her sister would serenade us good night every evening to the closing theme. Growing up, if we were over at my Grandparent’s on a Saturday night for dinner, they would have PBS on, broadcasting a previously aired show and we would all watch it. For many people, I am sure this was truly Hollywood magic, the first time they had ever seen anything like this.
Lawrence welk good night full#
There is something so wholesome and sweet about the show and when you think back to TV way back then, when this was first aired, what a major thing this was to watch with your family, an entire song and dance show, with a full orchestra, colourful costumes, and huge sets. Saturday Night Live has a running skit in which they make fun of it and I laugh harder than I am sure others my age, because I truly get the joke. Now, I am not that old of a woman, I am definitely, I would like to think, way too young to know what this show is, but yet I do. He was a star who could put them on TV and possibly make them a star, or at least get them into show business.Aah, The Lawrence Welk Show, it conjures up many a childhood memory for me. Of course the answer to how it “picked up” beautiful young women is easy. I wonder if this was just used on his property, so he had it removed and it stayed off or was it removed for the photo shoot? So someone when to a bit of trouble to not have the windshield stacked up on top of the hood.
The problem is that the bolts that would hold on either the fold down or fixed windshield are behind the dash/defroster vents and those items would have to be removed to gain access to the windshield bolts. The early Scouts also came with a fold down windshield and it too seemed to be an option on the later Scouts but not common.
Lawrence welk good night windows#
Roll up windows with a vent window came later though from what I read there were years where it was possible to order either. The lack of the vent window can be easily explained by the earliest Scouts having sliding windows that were completely removeable. What catches my eye is the lack of the windshield and vent windows. I can easily picture her getting behind the wheel of the sponsor’s product display on stage and driving a ’59 Dodge fins-first into the orchestra pit were it not for those sketches being done live and Hollywood, Welk has enough currency that Saturday Night Live parodied the Lennon Sisters with the Maharelle Sisters from the Finger Lakes, notably Kristen Wiig’s Dooneese. Speaking of the logistics of filming in New York vs. Welk likely drove his own Dodge “company car” – he seems to have favored convertibles with continental kits – from Beverly Hills to the studio. This would’ve been more of an issue in NYC than LA, it wouldn’t have done for Ed Sullivan to be seen on Broadway alighting from a black Cadillac prior to a show’s worth of exhorting the virtues of Lincoln-Mercury.
I’d just mentioned on Alden Jewell’s Flickr (where this photo exists and heartily recommended to anyone who’s into cars at any level), that I’ve often surmised that in the single-sponsor era the networks would’ve likely had to keep their chauffeured car services in-house and the fleet mixed but with careful policies to make sure any stars with automotive sponsorship were picked up in the right make.
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