fun with tuba on lawrence welk!

davidwburns · Post by **davidwburns** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:45 am

Guys, I thought you might be interested this (if you haven't already seen it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAtD5VRUZp8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWpT57veI0o

John Caves · Post by **John Caves** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:48 am

If this doesn't qualify for The Best Band Ever, I don't know what will !

John Caves · Post by **John Caves** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:52 am

I always wondered which tuba was his main horn. Every time I saw him, he was playing a different horn.

ger · Post by **ger** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:21 am

Who knows what tuba Harold Loeffelmacher is playing on?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:28 pm

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.

poomshanka · Post by **poomshanka** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:47 am

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

porkchopsisgood · Post by **porkchopsisgood** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:36 pm

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

dwerden · Post by **dwerden** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:37 pm

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.