You know...it's funny how I never appreciated this while watching it growing up....but now that that's happened I've nothing but respect for the gentlemen now! Well I'm also a brass player so the tubist is kind of special too...
thanks for posting, this brings back a lot of memories, I watched mr welks show every week as a child, and I prefer this kind of music to what they call music today, and we don,t have decent tv shows like this anymore you can watch with your family, so thanks for posting this and bringing back some wonderful memories
The fact that he can play this song on a tuba is... WOW!!! That's hard especially because it takes more time then the other instruments to get the air all the way through
I have memories of car trips and my dad tapping in time on the steering wheel to this. Until recently , I didn't know this song's title. I'm not sure who's more tired, the dancers, the tuba player or me watching !!
I just love the big grin Mr. Welk always has on his face when he dances. Pure joy! Sadly this is something my generation has lost. They have traded real joy and fun for staring at a screen with a blank dead look on their face. And when they do "dance" it's not really.
I loved playing bass in polka bands and watching a packed floor of couples dancing, especially those that were really good. Sometimes a few of the seasoned couples would do what I called a perimeter dance. A man and woman would do these short steps with their arms locked, side by side, and skip around the outside perimeter of the dance floor with beaming smiles, glad that their dance lessons paid off. When lower priced wedding DJs started to replace live bands, dancing became scores of women racing to the dance floor, beer in one hand, a smoke inbthe other, sliding on their nylons the instant Cotton Eyed Joe was played. When Macarena became popular, dancing became extinct, then weddings followed.
@GAP4EVER yes it is part of Northern Mexican culture . Because many Germans and Polish immigrated to Northern states like Sinaloa and Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon .
+Rusty Wolfe I am just saying in general. Since Richard was playing, I just complimented on him and that his wife has a great husband that loves her and she has her talents. I knew that that was Cissy dancing and not Mary Lou.
+taylor laski Lawrence Welk always did have more talent then he could ever showcase in a weekly hour. Mary Lou Metzger is a perfect example of that. She was in the trio with Gale Farrell and Sandi Griffiths and was always dancing with Jack Immel. But she could've just as easily stepped in and became Bobby Burgess' new dance partner when Cissy King got fired. Gale Farrell''s another example. Nobody could beat Jo Ann Castle's piano playing. But Gale Farrell could give her a run for her money. But because Lawrence Welk had so many talented people, she very rarely got the chance to play.
