Lawrence Welk stars sing "One Toke Over The Line"
Here's a very nice version of "One Toke Over The Line" from the Lawrence Welk show, sung by Gail and Dale. (Thanks,
Tamu!)
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I wonder how many older heads exploded when this was first run....
"Modern Spiritual" - love it! Whoever slipped that one by the producers must have been laughing up their sleeve the whole time.
Wait, what? DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Makes me happy, though.
Sweet Jesus, trains, one toke?!! Home Sweet Mary!
That is surreal, yet it works.
Synchronicity-----
I was all set to sing this song with a gal at a kind of talent show at the Unitarian church this Saturday night---unfortunately she called in sick, so I did something else. I'm sending this to her though---I'm sure we woulda sounded much the same
That's nothing - you should hear Slipknot's cover of "Amazing Grace."
Is that the Lawrence Welk show? The MC certainly wasn't Lawrence Welk.
ha! thanks for that, every day needs at least one , good innocent laugh!
You know that song - the real single - was banned on a bunch of radio stations. And the duo was condemned as 'miscreants' by Nixon for this very song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Toke_Over_the_Line
Brewer & Shipley
"They left California in 1969, returning to the Midwest, this time to Kansas City, where they would make a meager living through playing in college towns. They derived the name of their next album, Tarkio, from a regular gig they played in Tarkio, Missouri. This was their most commercially successful work, featuring their hit "One Toke Over the Line", which they wrote as a joke while preparing backstage for a performance."
Fantastic. But I can't help wondering what must have happened when the guy responsible came in to work the next day. I think it might have gone something... like this.
That's everything you need to know about the cluelessness of Silent Majority America in the 60s.
This song was the "Bong Hits For Jesus" of its day. Drug song? Spiritual?
This does bring back uncomfortable memories of having to explain what a "toke" was to Grandma.
Well, at least that explains the butterfly pinafore.
I had to watch this twice, but I think thats Dick Dale, of "Misirlou" fame. I saw him in concert in 1997 and it kinda looks and even sounds like him. No wonder why Dick turned to instrumental music.
Ha! We used to get stoned out of our minds and watch Lawrence Welk in the early 70s. I gave a speech on it once!
/If we have seen this, though, we may have died from laughing.
Based on his coughing, I'm guessing MC Myron Floren was hip to the whole transgression. In my experience, all musicians, even accordionists, are reefer addicts anyways.
... the announcer sez Dale is from Iowa, but his bio has him born in Quincy, Mass. hmmm.
In my experience, all musicians, even accordionists, are reefer addicts anyways.
I hope that you're not including the Lennon Sisters in that, young man!
sweet jesus!
Hahaha, Antinous! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not the LENNON SISTERS!
Wait I have to be wrong about Dick Dale. But the accordion player says his name is Dick Dale. He kinda chokes on the
line...pun intended
@16 Maddy: Algona, Iowa looks to be right, it's the other Dick Dale who is from Mass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale_(singer)
It made my day. I thought someone was fooling with me at first. Thanks for the great laugh.
There are two Dick Dales? My.
nobody should have to hear Slipknot's cover of "Amazing Grace."
@20 steve: all hail Wiki for sorting this dick&dale mess out -- and here's a Welk show clip a former Vanguard (that's the label Lawrence started) executive just sent me that's even weirder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI
This is not the first time I've heard tell of people getting high and watching Lawrence Welk.
I always thought is was a very surreal show, this weird hyper-polished version of pop music entertainment, pastel suits and bland arrangements, almost psychedelic.
yep, hilarious - wonder what the show & the singers thought TOKE meant?
some verb - like 'step'?
I wonder if the word "Jesus" is what confused the producers. Perhaps they should have read ALL the lyrics.
/then again, we wouldn't be watching this if they had!
Amazing!
I love Lawrence Welk! Agreed. It's a bizarre show. I love the clips of the characters now, reminiscing. Creepy, creepy people.
hey, lawrence wouldn't lie to you -- it's a "modern spiritual"! it HAS to be wholesome: it mentions JESUS and MARY!
"One of the newer songs," a "modern spiritual."
Sweet JEEBUS.
I think BillBarol is on to something.
This is not a bad as Pat Boone's "In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy."
http://www.amazon.com/Metal-Mood-More-Mr-Nice/dp/B000005KOE
Ha! I give you:
Pat Boone - Crazy Train
Top that, I dare ya.
Top that, I dare ya.
How about a picture of Pat Boone's dick in a box? NSFW, also unappetizing.
Steve and Edie Gorme doing "Blackhole Sun."
I can't find a clip, though.
I spoke too soon. Scroll down for their clip from the CD Lounge-a-Palooza:
http://www.amazon.com/Lounge-Palooza-Various-Artists/dp/B000000OK8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1202345201&sr=1-1
Pat Boone was in on the joke and publicly told everybody he was -- Not the same thing.
There's a gospel group (the Dixie Hummingbirds) that does a cover of "Personal Jesus." It always strikes me as wrong, somehow.
Reminds me of the "shrinkage" Seinfeld episode.
Johnny Cash doing "Hurt"?
I think all these go to show that any song can be transformed into whatever you want to make it to be.
It's like Ronald Reagan using Springsteen for his campaign commercial.
Gail was rather attractive, and the way she was bouncing up and down on Dale's lap makes me think that perhaps he didn't just stand up and leave the stage when the curtain closed. Perhaps he just sat there for a little while and collected his thoughts.
Sure, we used to get stoned and watch some Welk.
I am left with this memory: LW: "Denk you, denk you, denk you — for an excellent fine number."
#42 -- Nawww, I disagree, I think this shows the exact opposite. And yeah, Steve and Edie Gorme doing "Blackhole Sun" is much worse.
Mitch, I found myself thinking the same thing. She does a lot of bouncing.
Mitch and Teresa, I noticed the body language too, but my take on it was that Dale was sexually bullying Gail in some way. The look on her face of Lennon-sistersy frozen charm, the effort to pull away from him: she'd make eye contact with him, but it wasn't pleasant eye contact, and then she'd look off to the side. These things happened more than once. I found it extremely creepy, a kind of dominance thing, and I wonder if, after the cameras moved away, she didn't plant a firm spike heel on his instep.
Iirc, from tell-all bios, there was a lot of that on the Welk show (though not from Welk).
I thought that all the men in those Welk duets were closet queens.
Welk's mob always reminds me of the downunders in A Boy And His Dog.
this was completely mind blowing. i don't do drugs, but i wish i was high when i saw this. wow.
LOL! That was so wholesome it hurt. Yuk! I think I'm diabetic now! What would Jesus do about that? Weep. These sorts of post should have a skull and crossed-bones tag.
Well, after two days of chuckling at the very idea of this, and enjoying the comments... I finally watched the video clip. I think it's really creepy. It just gives me the willies some how, it seems wrong. I am also a veteran of watching Lawrence Welk while in altered states in the college dorm. The show always seems vaguely evil to me, I mean to the point that it was hardly even funny. Some sort of robotic, Stepford Wives quality to it I guess. I'm glad I didn't see this performance back then, it might have taken me around the bend.
brrrrrrrrrr.
I recall years ago, John Denver hosted the grammys and sang a portion of all the songs up for song of the year. One of the nominees was "Hotel California." It was hilarious to see him, in front of my parents and the rest of the world, sing "...warm smell of colitas rising up through the air."
they left out the second verse about having promiscuous sex. Anyway, I like this version better, it sounds very pretty.
I think "Weeds" pretty much established that Jesus would approve. LOL