Three Lawrence Welk clips

With so many Lawrence Welk parodies on SNL in recent years, here’s three clips that show the breadth of music on that show…

-Gail, Ron & Michael sing “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”: Gail and Ron were married, having met in the mid-1970s after (I hope) Ron and his first wife split. Michael seems like their weird, interloping neighbor. The tight harmony here is good; the goofy staging (and Ron’s attempts at humor) are not:


-Lennon Sisters, “Georgy Girl”: a charming cover of this song, my daughter was mesmerized by this as a baby. The fake whistling needs some work, but little kids won’t notice. I believe this is before the sisters got their own show, which sadly debuted right after their father was killed.


-Here's Bobby & Cissy with an insane compendium of dances: The Charleston, The Jitterbug, The Mashed Potato, The Monkey and a few others.  A few things I noticed: it's shocking that they are doing their own introductions in-between, when they are clearly out of breath.  Also, Cissy's dress is out of control during The Jitterbug, and she seems to be trying desperately to keep it pulled down.  Their take on the Jitterbug, by the way, is probably one of the best dances I've seen on the show.

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