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Topic: They had no clue what they were singing about |
Andy Volk
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 3:55 am |
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I think Myron Floren was one toke over the line, too.
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 4:10 am
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Thinking about what a horror it would be for me be "to be sitting in a railway station one toke over the line" nowadays. Where's the valium!
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 5:11 am
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Can't wait for the King Sisters "Salute to Twerking" special!  |
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 10:15 am
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Once he was introducing Take the 'A' Train as "Take a train"
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Dennis Smith
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Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 12:09 pm
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What got me was the Brewer & Shipley greatest hits package was a double LP set.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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John Ed Kelly
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 4:12 pm
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Err...eh?
We are a protected species here in OZ...can't say I know the origin of toke  |
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 5:26 pm
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| Hey John Ed... Since I don't think Noah Webster was familiar with the term when he wrote his American dictionary in 1828, the up-to-the-minute on-line urban dictionary says, toke = "to inhale marijuana smoke" |
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 6:03 pm
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But if you're a politician, you don't inhale 
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 29 Aug 2013 11:17 pm
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Haha even at the introduction: (Cough) Excuse me. Keep on Truckin' Casey Jones, just watch your speed. Reminds me of a sign at the New Jersey Turnpike turnstile that always amused me: Tokens Speed Your Trip  |
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Niels Andrews
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Salinas, California, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 9:19 am
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This video made my Friday!
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 10:08 am
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According to Wikipedia ....
"One Toke Over The Line" was performed on The Lawrence Welk Show, a television program known for its conservative, family-oriented format, by a duo known as "Gail and Dale." At the conclusion of the performance of the song, Welk remarked, without any hint of irony, "There you've heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale." This caused Michael Brewer to comment:
The Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, named us personally as a subversive to American youth, but at exactly the same time Lawrence Welk performed the crazy thing and introduced it as a gospel song. That shows how absurd it really is. Of course, we got more publicity than we could have paid for.
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 30 Aug 2013 3:15 pm
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 25 Sep 2013 5:48 pm
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| It's probably true somebody in the Welk organization was asleep at the switch and didn't tell the boss what "One Toke" was really about.If they had,LW wouldn't have called it,wouldn't have missed it,and his band would still have had a live show on prime time TV for 31 years,plus all the time they were in syndication,plus all the reruns and compilations that are on the air today.LW did "One Toke" just the once.Brewer & Shipley have had to play "One Toke" every gig for 40 years. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2013 11:29 am
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| Brewer & Shipley have had to play "One Toke" every gig for 40 years. |
Ah, the endless wonders of pot, millions of musicians would sell their soul for 40 years worth of gigs. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 26 Sep 2013 12:14 pm
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I remember a song from them called "Brain Damage".
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 27 Sep 2013 7:22 am
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| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
| Dave Hopping wrote: |
| Brewer & Shipley have had to play "One Toke" every gig for 40 years. |
Ah, the endless wonders of pot, millions of musicians would sell their soul for 40 years worth of gigs. |
One the one hand,a Top Ten hit is a whole lot like a paid-up annuity for the person whose name is on the record.On the other,having to play the same setlist exactly the same way every night for decades on end sounds a whole lot like selling one's soul.Chuck Berry,anyone? |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2013 11:39 am
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| having to play the same setlist exactly the same way every night for decades on end sounds a whole lot like selling one's soul. |
That's where the problem is, anyone that would be willing to endure that torture deserves it. But some artists have a great attitude towards it and can handle the endless routine, gotta admire or at least respect that but I could never handle it. |
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Clete Ritta
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Posted 27 Sep 2013 1:09 pm
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| Dave Hopping wrote: |
| having to play the same setlist exactly the same way every night for decades on end sounds a whole lot like selling one's soul. |
Here's a perspective to consider: Many folks wake up each morning and travel the same exact route to a job, where they do the same work that they did yesterday and the day before. Then they return home via that same route, eat dinner, watch TV and go to sleep and maybe dream of something different. 
Life can be a routine of ||:work, eat, sleep:||. In this sense everyone is sold, and its called a living. Playing the same music may seem as monotonous as any other job, but at least places and faces change and theres opportunity to travel and meet new people. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Morgan Scoggins
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2013 4:52 am
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I guess LW was a little naïve about the lyrics to this song. He was a nice, sweet man and probably never had such a thought in his head. It's kind of like a sweet old third grade teacher I had back in 1955. Some kid drew a nasty picture on the blackboard, if you know what I mean. She later saw it and as she erased it, she said, "I never did like cannons".
LW was a sweet old guy, but a real cheapskate. He paid all of his musicians minimum union scale. I see and old video on Youtube that shows Lynn Anderson singing a Hawaiian song with Buddy Merrill playing the steel. The backdrop is in Hawaii. Lawrence wouldn't even spring for an authentic Leia. Buddy and Lynn were wearing paper imitations.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2013 11:38 am
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| Lawrence wouldn't even spring for an authentic Leia. |
But to his credit, he probably knew those added A's made a lei even costlier, even if made of paper! But really, a true lei under those lights and time straits would hardly last and look terrible very soon.
Que the bubbles! |
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Morgan Scoggins
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2013 12:28 pm
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I guess you are right Ron. Perhaps LW wasn't the cheapest of The cheep. My late Father worked for Ingalls Iron & Steel Co. in Birmingham, Al back in the post WW2 era. He was a welder. He told me that old man Ingall used to walk through the welders shop picking up 3 and 4 inch welding rod bits that the welders had cast off and hand them back to them to make them use them up!!
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