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Topic: Buddy Merrill with Dick Dale and the Lennon Sisters |
Derrick Mau
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 5:05 am |
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Geeze, Dereck! I don't know what to say about that. And I am not one who is usually at a loss for words.
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 5:58 am
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My 93 year-old dad lives in Geezer Valley, AZ and I visit him frequently. Tucson Public TV shows reruns of Lawrence Welk every Saturday night, and he hasn't missed an episode in decades. This is the first I've seen Buddy playing that thing with its legs extended sans pedalbar. In truth, I prefer hearing it the other way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF05gVe47S4r |
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Mike Harris
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 6:55 am Tiny Bubbles
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| Wow--this helps me understand why so many of "my people" seek the help of a qualified mental health therapist. |
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 10:31 am
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Man, I was really hoping for Buddy Merrill with some surf guitar! The other Dick Dale.  |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 1:55 pm
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you have to appreciate the welk folks or you get goofy answers. i have worked with the welk orchestra back in the day. myron floren ran it after welk passed on. before branson, they toured a lot and i would get a call to be buddy merrill or neal lavang. 
let me tell you...those were some virtuoso musicians in that band. i would do a bit with henry questra on clarinet. we would do sing sing and he would smoke!! jo ann castle on piano. myron on accordion and all the singers and dancers. the charts were hard as heck and you better be able to play!! back in the day, they were a mainstay on tv ever week.
your grandfolks loved them.
this youtube video.....buddy is not playing. its pre recorded. |
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 2:55 pm
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| Buddy gets a great sound from that Fender, and it’s not even plugged in! |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 3:08 pm
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You guys noticed that too? The magic of television. See it all the time. Wonder who actually recorded the track?
Last edited by Jerry Overstreet on 28 Mar 2020 5:07 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 4:35 pm
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I definitely did a double-take when I saw Dick Dale in the title. "No bloody way", I said to myself, and of course I was right. More's the pity.
Absolutely - the musicianship in Welk's band was great. I watched Welk with my grandfather most every Saturday night for years. Sittin' down eating Hood's ice cream with Jackie Gleason, Lawrence Welk, and then for some time, Gunsmoke. |
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Larry Lenhart
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Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 28 Mar 2020 6:26 pm
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As a teenager I watched Lawrence Welk every chance I got, hoping that Buddy and Neil would play guitars...I was old before my days...call me an old geezer, I still love it ! Those were the good days to me. I had a quad like the one Buddy played on there from time to time.
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 29 Mar 2020 2:53 am
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I have never questioned Lawrence Welk's musical taste and aesthetic value. Such criticism is from people far more sophisticated than I. But just how the song Tiny Bubbles can be included in the history of Hawaiian Music is for those for whom tradition is of little importance.
I fully recognise the interesting elements of "kitsch," but I would like someone, who has studied that subject, to identify the aspects of this song which can lay claim to even that accolade. What Don Ho with his Island origin did, is no better than what ignorant Hoales did with the likes of "Yaaka Hula Hicky Dula."
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William Rosen
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2020 8:00 am
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Thanks, Derrick. Definitely from our era.
Jeanie & Bill Rosen
Seattle |
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Matt Berg
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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