Talk:The Lawrence Welk Show

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[edit] Alice Lon firing

I don't know much about Lawrence Welk, but the story about him firing Alice Lon on camera sounds over the top. Does anyone have evidence to support this? Because I would think something like that would have been in the papers. And yet, the Chicago Tribune of July 19, 1959, has Alice Lon saying "I was mad and told him I was quitting but he didn't say anything. A few days later I received a letter from his manager telling me my resignation had been accepted."

I searched through ProQuest and find absolutely nothing to support the statement that Welk tossed her on live TV. BlongerBros 02:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the previous two posters. The story about Lon is featured somewhat prominently and provides no substantiation. 66.171.197.20 22:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I too question whether Lon's firing was actually "on air". I think that this may be derived from the article in The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows where it says that Lon was chastised by Welk for "'showing too much knee' on camera". I don't think that this means that the chastising was done on camera, but rather that he subsequently told her that she had showed too much knee while on camera, although the wording is arguably ambiguous. While not verifiable and hence unencyclopedic, I note that I never heard anything about this being done on-air from my parents, who were really big fans of the show and almost never missed it (I was alive at the time but too young to really remember it either way), whereas they often rehearsed the story of Arthur Godfrey's on-air firing of Julius LaRosa, and this leads me to believe that if it had really been done on-air they would have frequently brought this fact up as well. They seemed to prefer Lon to Zimmer; it seemed to take them a while to come to the idea that maybe Zimmer was just as good or even better. If no one objects, I think that we should change this to delete any reference to Lon's firing having occurred on-air. Rlquall 22:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)