Welk, at the conclusion of the performance of the song, remarked, without any hint of humor, 'there you've heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale. I didn’t have the liberty to do what I wanted but, every now and then, I’d inject a song that I liked. In 1971 the song was performed on the Lawrence Welk Show by a wholesome looking couple Gail Farrell and Dick Dale, who clearly had NO clue what a toke was. Laura said he just couldn't bring himself to play music that square. FLASHBACK: Lawrence Welk star Arthur Duncan credits Betty White for his career The Lawrence Welk Show, though, was a cherished gig. But even though he had a family to feed and really needed the work, he turned it down.
#One toke over the line lawrence welk tv#
This was considered a dream gig because the Welk TV show was the steadiest paycheck this side of the Tonight Show Band. I've been told that at one point when gigs were very hard to come by for big band jazz musicians, he was offered a place on the Welk TV show, and even went in to meet everyone and watch a taping. He played with everyone from Tommy Dorsey to Ray McKinley to Ernie Felice arranged, sang on and led classic radio jingle sessions and played in showrooms behind every supper club star of the '60s-'80s (Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Tom Jones, etc.) My wife Laura's late dad (whom I never met) was the renowned big band jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Bill Ainsworth. : Brewer & Shipley, : 09 - Don't It Feel Like Heaven (Welcome To Riddle Bridge 1975), : 02:43. I also have a secondhand connection to Lawrence Welk. Brewer & Shipley 09 - Don't It Feel Like Heaven (Welcome To Riddle Bridge 1975). This is one of my favorite goofy musical clips, and I have quite a collection. So as a kid, I thought that the song had something to do with gambling, and that 'one toke over the line,' referred to something like 'one gaming token over the pass line on the craps table'-I had no idea what such a phrase might have meant in gambling terms but assumed it meant something meaningful to grownups.
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