Dick Dale, 88, Lawrence Welk boy singer/saxophonist

That Derek

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Dec 27, 2014, 9:15:05 PM12/27/14

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Wikipedia is reporting that on 12/26/2014 well-known "Lawrence Welk Show" personality Dick Dale has died, age 88.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale_(singer)

Please note that this Dick Dale is NOT the 1960s surf-guitarist who used the same professional name. This Dick Dale was a saxophonist in Welk's TV orchestra for the entire duration of Welk's network and post-network/syndication run from 1955 through 1981. In the fifties, Dale was the orchestra's "boy singer" until he grew o old for that designation.

Here's a link to a YouTube video from an early 1970s Welk broadcast in which Dick Dale and Gail Farrell present the anomalous (for the Welk show) "One Toke over the Line," which Lawrence labels a modern-day "spiritual."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE

R H Draney

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Dec 28, 2014, 12:30:53 AM12/28/14

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That Derek filted:
>
>Wikipedia is reporting that on 12/26/2014 well-known "Lawrence Welk Show" p=

>ersonality Dick Dale has died, age 88.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale_(singer)
>

>Please note that this Dick Dale is NOT the 1960s surf-guitarist who used th=
>e same professional name. This Dick Dale was a saxophonist in Welk's TV orc=
>hestra for the entire duration of Welk's network and post-network/syndicati=
>on run from 1955 through 1981. In the fifties, Dale was the orchestra's "bo=

>y singer" until he grew o old for that designation.
>

>Here's a link to a YouTube video from an early 1970s Welk broadcast in whic=
>h Dick Dale and Gail Farrell present the anomalous (for the Welk show) "One=

> Toke over the Line," which Lawrence labels a modern-day "spiritual."
>

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dt8tdmaEhMHE

"This video is unavailable. Sorry about that."

Works if I look it up from YouTube though...try it this way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dt8tdmaEhMHE

Here's a less fuzzy copy, posted by the song's co-composer Tom Shipley himself:

http://youtu.be/Ye3ecDYxOkg

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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

Thar Derek Again

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Dec 28, 2014, 11:58:22 AM12/28/14

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Never mind Lawrence Welk's total obliviousness to "One Toke over the Line." Check out this YouTube link from 1967 in which Peggy Lennon boop-boop-a-doops her way through the 1920s double-entendre drenched novelty song "Frankfurter Sandwiches."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjNJytNO8Ow

How the hell did that get past Standards and Practices?

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MJ Emigh

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Dec 29, 2014, 11:34:08 AM12/29/14

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On Monday, December 29, 2014 7:27:44 AM UTC-6, Terry del Fuego wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:58:21 -0800 (PST), Thar Derek Again
> <thatderek> wrote:
I just watched a rented DVD of the 1969 Dick Cavett show with
> Jefferson Airplane, >>I wondered what lyrical
> substitution or omission would take place,

Yes, it did air that way. I clearly remember watching it on it's initial run. If you are old enough to remember, grown-ups could (would) never understand the lyrics in the music we listened to. Oh, sure.....once in a while there was a "Yesterday," or something, but generally anything between 68 and 72 was music from another planet to them.

The "Volunteers" album was fairly new at the time. The songs weren't well-known yet. Probably no one at the network bothered to read the included lyric sheet. Plus, Cavett was the low-rated alternative for the intellectuals (or those who saw ourselves as intellectuals, at least). Everyone was far more concerned with how close Johnny would get to mentioning a body part.

Anglo Saxon

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Dec 29, 2014, 7:03:49 PM12/29/14

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MJ Emigh wrote:
> Everyone was far more concerned with how close Johnny would get to
mentioning a body part.

Remember "fish and finger-pie" in Penny Lane? hahahahaha

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