My family watched the Lawrence Welk show when I was a kid in the 60s. I watched with them and at the time it was just something that came on. As I became an mid to older teen in the 70s, both my family and I lost track of the show and I didn't watch it again for forty years.
Then maybe twelve or thirteen years ago my wife and I stumbled across it on PBS. Something dawned on me. I've always had a grasp for the tunes and lyrics of "old standards" and didn't really think about why. Maybe I'd heard them on the radio.
No, when we started to watch the show on PBS, I realized I learned all those old standards through my exposure to them in my childhood years watching this program.
Lawrence Welk and his musical directors made a 25-piece "big band" sound like a symphony orchestra at times. He had an unfailing ear for talent, and both his musicians and singers never missed a note ... never were off key.
Over the years, we've renewed our "friendships" with the long-time stars of the program and it's comforting to see them again. A few years ago we dropped cable after yet another expensive rate increase, for YouTube TV and the Fubo. We've switched back and forth a bit ... neither is the perfect choice ... but neither carry the local PBS stations!
So we lost our connection to The Lawrence Welk show again for a few years, but I discovered recently that the PBS app on Amazon gives us access to the local station AND they now broadcast their live schedule through the app, which they didn't do when we first left the cable company. So now we've just begun to watch again, and very happy we've got it again.
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