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Re: Pete Fountain / Lawrence Welk

Author: fskelley
Date: 2017-02-21 22:22

I suspect there are few big names in music who always had things their way musically- or who would have become big if always given full control.

I've been a lifelong Elvis fan, but man- some of those movie songs... blech. And he thought so too, but as long as the Colonel said sing, Elvis sang. And it did work out well for both of them, at least financially. Artistically and satisfying in life is another whole question.

I'm also something of a Welk fan (maybe about 1/4 of what was on the show). But I cringed trying to listen to Pete playing along with the Lennon sisters, couldn't make it all the way through. Even though I thought it had good production value, was a cute idea, and Pete seemed to give it all he had and was being a good sport. Hard to criticize it for the times.

Stan in Orlando

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