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L. Welk vocalist Natalie Nevins sing "Canadian Sunset"

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I find her singing far more strange than her trombone imitation. Also this You Tube clip elicited a potentially ambiguous response from someone who seemed to be familiar with the band:

"Natalie was always so eager. How she managed to remain so perfectly coiffed and groomed will forever be a mystery."

Eager? Hmm.

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I find her singing far more strange than her trombone imitation. Also this You Tube clip elicited a potentially ambiguous response from someone who seemed to be familiar with the band:

"Natalie was always so eager. How she managed to remain so perfectly coiffed and groomed will forever be a mystery."

Eager? Hmm.

You know that she was gettin' macked by Gene Ammons doncha'? That megaphone thing on that particular song was just a "symbol" of her "drinking from the Jug", if you get my drift.

Them Welk chicks was crazymad hornilicious, them was.

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Them Welk chicks was crazymad hornilicious, them was.

That was my guess, although some Internet searching suggests that the guy who posted that comment on You Tube is an utterly sincere fan, a big admirer of Patti Page and Joni James and thus unlikely to have meant what I was thinking he did. On the other hand, that flamingo thing!

Also Ms. Nevins apparently was another of the female singers whom Welk unceremoniously dismissed, a la Alice Lon. The full story is not within my grasp as yet, but apparently Nevins missed (or "missed") a tour stop, and that was it.

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I'm just amazed that there was a time when someone thought it would be cool to imitate a trombone.

Ummm....I don't think anything ever put on the Welk show was done so because of its "cool" factor. :cool:

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well, my favorite was after the black tap dancer did his thing and Welk came on and said, "that boy sure can dance." I was watching with grandma, circa 1969, and I almost fell off my chair -

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There were some players in Welk's band. Off the top of my head -- trombonist Bob Havens, trumpeters Dick Cathcart and Warren Luening, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko, bassist Buddy Clark. However, the Bobby Burgess who worked with Welk was a dancer, not the former Kenton trombone player. If it had been Kenton's Bob Burgess, I think we might have had the real-life template for Lenny Bruce's jazz-musician-meets-Welk routine ("We like animals in the band").

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Ummm....I don't think anything ever put on the Welk show was done so because of its "cool" factor. :cool:

No, but by the law of averages the sheer number of shows he did guaranteed that he would have to do one or two cool things over the course of 50 years, even if accidentally.

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I'm just amazed that there was a time when someone thought it would be cool to imitate a trombone.

Ummm....I don't think anything ever put on the Welk show was done so because of its "cool" factor. :cool:

Now on that one, you might be wrong. I remember on of the last shows, deep into the syndicated years, when Paul Humphrey (yeah, that Paul Humphrey) was the drummer & Welk actually let the band swing on a few numbers, there was one of the occasional "jam session" #s that would get thrown out/in every few months or so, and they did "How High The Moon" with a combo (Questa, HAvens, LaVang - who along w/Humphrey must be the only musicians to work w/both Lawrence Welk & Frank Zappa, I forget who else), and on the out-chorus, they hit it with "Ornithology".

I nearly shit my pants, I kid you not.

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Ummm....I don't think anything ever put on the Welk show was done so because of its "cool" factor. :cool:

Doesn't mean they didn't try...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2kbBinvI4

Wow, that is............sublime. :blink:

On so many levels.....the dancers, the clarinet dude, the Tiajuana Brass treatment. Amazing.

You know, the one thing about Welk that I kinda dig (make that "dig", ok?) is that the arrangements were always in flux in terms of texture. The arrangers had all these....sounds to work with, so they did. Every 8 bars or so, same old shit, yeah, but with a different instrumentation and a different texture. Voices, strings, keys, brass, woodwinds, percussions, you name it, they'd use it. Even if it was in the service of Musical Novacaine, there was still a certain "ingenuity" there that I gotta give some kind of props to.

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