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Old 09-26-2025, 10:18 AM   #6960 (permalink)
Drjohnrock
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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi View Post
I stumbled across this video a few years ago, while I was looking for something else. Have to say I got a good laugh out of it at the time...




Gail & Dale - One Toke Over The Line

Thanks for posting that. I've heard stories for years about how the song was peformed on the Welk show but hadn't seen the video before. I bet old Lawrence fired, or at least chewed out, the person responsible for that.

In old Lawrence's defense, here's a song his band did in the late 1920s. Maybe the younger Welk wasn't such a square back then:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdw-...&start_radio=1
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