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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B
I don't think any big band aficionado would compare Lawrence Welk to any of the greats on your list. That would be insulting to the other artists. (And you're obviously saying pretty much the same thing!) Welk was more like Guy Lombardo; extremely popular, but not influential in any sort of progressive sense. All the others you mentioned made huge contributions to music, while Welk and Lombardo were just pablum that some people could dance to. You could say that Welk was to big bands what Pat Boone was to rock & roll, except it dragged on for decades thanks to television.
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I agree with you. What I'm saying is who would have believed that Welk would be the one out of the hundreds of big bands to get the popular (to a huge number of viewers, not me) TV show that was on TV seemingly forever after all the others, Lombardo included, faded away?
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