Thursday, November 15, 2007
Lawrence Welk Lives
As of this moment there are 66 posts answering the fellow who started it all by asking why those old Lawrence Welk shows are on PBS TV every week instead of much better bands from that era. Why have the champagne Music Makers been on TV for 50 years? You can learn a lot from watching the interviews with surviving old Welk stars. When one of them was asked what she learned from boss Daddy Welk, she said he reminded her that she was in show business and the music business. Not art. Business. Son Larry Welk and everyone who keeps those old shows going knows that. Lawrence found a niche and he milked it. It still works today. PBS makes a lot of noise about being a high class alternative to commercial broacasting, but they have to care about ratings and income. The old Welk Shows are top rated , big money makers for PBS at fundraising time. .
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Lawrence rocks. Great musicians go on and on. I never thought of him as old fashion or only for old people. If todays musicians could do half of what the Welk musicians do, they would be unstoppable in their music field.
ReplyDeleteYup . . . you can always tell when PBS is trying to appeal to the most people. Their blandness quotient goes through the roof: Lawrence Welk, James Taylor, Peter, Paul & Mary, and so forth.
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