Talk:Lawrence Welk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of multiple WikiProjects. Click [show] for further details

This page is within the scope of WikiProject South Dakota, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on South Dakota on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. B This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. Biography Portal B This article has been rated as B-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] This article is within the scope of WikiProject North Dakota, a WikiProject which aims to improve all articles related to North Dakota. B This article has been rated as B-Class on the assessment scale. Mid This article is on a subject of mid-importance within North Dakota articles. This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

Contents 1 Editing Suggestions 2 Opinions 3 Anti-Semitic? 4 Here's an idea 5 $400? 6 Maestro

[edit] Editing Suggestions

Since there are two "Aragon Ballrooms", the first mention should be to unambiguously clarify the different roles that each had.

[edit] Opinions

is it too old fashioned to talk about lawrence welk??  :) i thought his music, his show was spectacular and my friends think its too corny!!!

I kind of liked him too. To characterize his accent as "slight" is unjustified understatement. He was totally understandable, but his accent was not slight. It was a German accent, since he grew up in a German-speaking community in the Mid-West.

Lawrence Welk is da bomb.

The square comment is a little rough. He was a decent man and was enormously popular back in those days.

While I think the music is a little corny I enjoyed it. What was the name of that redhead? I always had the hots for her! :)

[edit] Anti-Semitic?

I've heard over the years that Lawrence Welk was anti-Semitic, but I have never seen any evidence. Any ideas?

[edit] Here's an idea

He featured lots of Gershwin tunes on his show. He also featured Irving Berlin, Aaron Copeland, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart and Yip Harburg (who wrote "Over the Rainbow"), and others. They were all Jewish, and among the most popular composers in America during his time. Hope this dispels the thought that he was anti-semitic. He occasionally would have his Irish tenor, Joe Feeny, sing a jewish medley from the high holidays or have his cast do a Chanuka skit. Selections from Fiddler on the Roof were always popular with his audiences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.225.39 (talk) 06:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] $400?

Four hundred dollars would have been more than a year's salary for a farmhand in the '20s. Seems a bit high; maybe $40? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iroll (talk • contribs) 02:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

agreed it seemed crazy high to me too - i'm guessing this is where it came from http://www.parabrisas.com/d_welkl.php

Nope, his autobiography "Wunnerful, Wunnerful" explains that it was indeed $400, a huge sum of money at the time. The deal he made with his father was that if dad bought the accordian, Lawrence would stay on the farm and work for four years, plus dad got every dime made from music gigs played during that time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.211.210 (talk) 05:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maestro

The repeated use of "maestro" makes this sound like a fan magazine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.70.201.128 (talk) 01:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)