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‘In 1968, The Velvet Underground finally found a large, mainstream audience during a performance on the Lawrence Welk Show’

My parents were just the right age to LOVE Lawrence Welk.

When I was really, really young, they even took me to a concert. While his band was playing, he came over and talked to us.

I was still just young enough to be really cute. So I had to ask him, ‘How come you can’t count past two?’ (which is a joke only a diehard Welk fan would get). He laughed.

Saturday night was Welk night. Early Saturday night, not too late. It still is.

Lawrence Welk was sponsored by the always present, always hyped Geritol. Which I grew up thinking was THE wonder drug that could solve all problems and cure all.

Found via Robynne Raye

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