![]() ![]() I might say that even today after watching some of the old shows broadcast by Kentucky Educational Television. I don’t even remember particularly liking the show in those pre-teen years when I was regularly subjected to watching it. ![]() ![]() I might have gotten the connection better had he called it “beer music.” I guess he meant it was light and bubbly and went down easy. By better, I guess, she meant better than our usual diet of Grand Ol’ Opry along with some of that new rock-n-roll that was making its way into rural Western Kentucky in the late 1950s. In fact, I recall our grade school music teacher encouraging us to watch the Welk show so we’d be exposed to “better” music. It’s not the music, the skits or the sophomoric humor that draws me in so much as the memories the old shows rekindle. She thinks it weird, but to me, the old shows are “wunnerful, wunnerful.” My dear spouse shakes her head in dismay or, maybe, disbelief when on an occasional Saturday afternoon she finds me plopped in front of the TV watching a rebroadcast of a decades-old "Lawrence Welk Show." ![]()
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