Thread: What was the salvation of the Prewar card hobby
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Old 02-09-2025, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B View Post
(Lawrence) Welk was more like Guy Lombardo; extremely popular, but not influential in any sort of progressive sense.... Welk and Lombardo were just pablum that some people could dance to.
An outrageous lie! Lawrence Welk was just plain schmaltzy. Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians were not. They were a standard big band for their day. (Not that I'm any kind of a big band fan.)
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