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fun with tuba on lawrence welk!
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:45 am
by davidwburns
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:48 am
by John Caves
If this doesn't qualify for The Best Band Ever, I don't know what will !
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:52 am
by John Caves
I always wondered which tuba was his main horn. Every time I saw him, he was playing a different horn.
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:21 am
by ger
Who knows what tuba Harold Loeffelmacher is playing on?
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:28 pm
by iiipopes
I don't know what tuba H L is playing on, but I do know this: in playing the last season of the theatre show in Branson, everything was cut down. I didn't get to play tuba on anything, just bass guitar. And the way the bandstand had been reconstructed and terraced to make the smaller band seem larger, I'm not sure there would have been room for a tuba anyway! Great gig. It's a shame their audience died out from under them.
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:47 am
by poomshanka
Another great clip, "And It Comes Out Here"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVZCf3uEFo
Not many husband/wife duets featuring a tuba that I know of!
...D
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:36 pm
by porkchopsisgood
NOW I know why we did the Clarinet Polka skit we did at Busch Gardens Europe when I was in the Polkamania show!
The clarinetist in our show was supposed to be having problems with his clarinet. Long story short, I would save the day! At the end, we would trade 2's on the melody at breaklip speed. Ah, memories!
Wish I had an incriminating picture to post here right about now....
AVC
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:37 pm
by dwerden
A lot of musicians would make fun of Lawrence Welk, and I have to admin that there music was not my preferred style. But there some really fine players in that group!
One of my favorite Dixie trombonists is Bob Havens, who I first heard with Al Hirt. He was regularly featured on the Welk show. And they had (for a while) a great clarinetist, Peanuts Hucko, who was also famous in his own right.