![]() ![]() This show was everything I, a kid of the '70s HATED. like this?." The song they were singing on the show was "Yesterday".)Īnd all between pitches for Rose Milk hand lotion, a regular sponsor of the show (which Welk confessed to using too.) These were people who still grumbled about the Beatles (One of the most surreal moments of my life came while visiting an elderly neighbor who regularly watched Lawrence Welk and she complained how music to her went south since the Beatles came "Why can't they make nice music anymore. And as square as the screens of the TV sets his show was beamed into. Staid, conservative (back when that word meant something TOTALLY different than what it means today.) Whiter than a percale sheet. Welk, and his frequent sideman, Myron Floren knew his target audience. (Yes, Myron Floren, we "knew" that was just a frog in your throat.) ![]()
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