Catpaw – diary of an angry cat

What to have a giggle? Find an episode of Lawrence Welk on TV, turn the sound off and watch the fun. We have a great time Saturday nights while waiting for the British comedies to come on. I never realised ole Lawrence was colour blind… that’s the only explanation possible for the incredible colour combination – leisure suits and crinoline in purples and oranges, greens and red oh the horror, the horror. It’s a designer’s nightmare…oh lordie they are in a salmony orange suits against yellow curtains and a purple wall. As I said “MY EYES”..owow that stirs up the migraines. Good God the guest conductor is in a brick red suit. Ouc…thunk…I think I passed out because of sensory overload.

When you turn the sound off you begin to see how, er, how will I put this without sounding cruel? Oh WTF, it’s impossible, how truly ungraceful and uncoordinated some of the dancers were. The Lawrence Welk Show – masters of mediocrity.

And just when you think it can’t get any worse… get a load of this lovely video clip from 1971 featuring 2 of Welk’s performers singing One Toke Over the Line. You read that right… It’s worth hanging in to the very end to hear Lawrence say “And there you heard a modern spiritual by Gale and Dale”. It was spiritual to some folks Lawrence, but not the kind you were thinking of.

Don’t you wish you could have seen Lawrence’s face when someone whispered in his shell like ear that the men who wrote the tune had just been condemned by then Vice President Spiro Agnew, as a subversive threat to American youth. And don’t you wish you were a fly on the wall when someone got the courage up to tell him what the song really meant? “What do you mean it’s not a gospel song? It has the words Sweet Jesus and Mary in it… it has to be a gospel song”.

Do you think someone was looking for a new job after this?

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