It was kind of like that poster of Seinfeld's Kramer: "He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away!", Lawrence Welk made me feel like something was wrong with the universe, that people could whistle and smile winningly at the same time. Somehow seems like a crime against nature!
In an interview whose origin seems to have been lost to time, Shipley said, “When we wrote 'One Toke Over the Line,' I think we were one toke over the line. ... If you listen to the lyrics of that song, 'one toke'' was just a metaphor. It's a song about excess.Too much of anything will probably kill you.”
Yeah yesterday, I was going to muse whether or not we would have Weird AL Yankovic without Welk seeing how Polka music was the thing that got him into music.