Ah, good old Lawrence Welk. When I was a kid — before the days of cable, when TVs only had 13 channels and half of those were nothing but white noise — The Lawrence Welk Show was the ONLY thing on at 7pm on Saturday evenings in the Los Angeles area, so I watched it. I have no doubt that's why I'm as fucked up as I am today.
This was old Larry Welk's pathetic attempt to attract a younger audience. (Most of his fans were octogenarian GERITOL swiggers, with one foot in their grave.) Laughable.
It must have been the Geritol (old people's alcohol-fueled "tonic" sponsor of the show) that turned all of their brains to mush so that they did not understand the lyrics. The song is loaded with drug references. Yeah and The Dead's "Casey Jones" is about a train conductor, too. Some people!
Third stanza, 5th line: If I should choose to make a part of me,... always sounded like "to make a pot of me." Really. Hell, it is a modern spiritual when you take too-big a toke, it is Instant Karma and you start coughing, just like the introducing MC! Just look at the YouTube alternative videos in the right column. One Toke must have been after Welk gave up on hiding his long-hair hippie guitar player in the late 60's.
Welk's own comment at the end of this piece establishes that they all thought they were doing a "modern spiritual." This is how Christians get fooled by millionaire TV evangelists: You slip in the word "Jesus" and they think it's God talking.
Apparently Brewer and Shipley laughed their asses off about this, as it happened like a week after Vice President Spiro Agnew blamed them for corrupting the nation's youth.
Did EVERYBODY involved in the taping of this tune really think this was a Gospel tune? There had to be some jazz musicians in the band that day who were biting their cheeks to keep from guffawing out loud.
FYI Lawrence Welk was a Big Band leader from the 40's Swing era. This was not a religion show. I think most parents were clueless to the meaning of rock songs their children were listening to.
I think the Lawrence Welk show was like the Rock of Gibraltar -- i.e. the last place Neanderthals were know to have existed long after modern humans had taken over Europe.
Fits perfectly, I mean... the only conceivable explanation for the existence of the Lawrence Welk show would be that the artists, the studio audience, the viewers, the production designers, the network execs and Lawrence himself were all stoned out of their skulls.
Too Darn funny, they thought they were singing a religious song and they were actually singing about getting baked. Sweet Mary wasn't the Virgin Mary!
my favorite Lawrence Welk introduction was Welk himself, introducing a song, like this. "... and now they are going to perform, 'Take thee, a Train' " What a goof.
@garyseven710 Given that he's been dead for years, it won't be any time soon. I've always heard rumors that he did secret sessions with Frank Zappa...ok, there ARE no such rumors but I really REALLY wish there were. Is that a bad thing?
@mattb127 bathroom mat,so many mistake where to start,one we are spell wrong but I at least try to correct it,you have no clue,a libertarian is not a leftist you moron,they just believe in no government and no drugs laws.If you ever get a job you are a corporate slave,business people make 90% of all US jobs,for me I started my own small business,and have the pains to prove it.I work for myself and my family,you suck at the tit of society.I love FREEDOM and I fought for it what did you do,moron
@mattb127 Don't waste your time with JJMFB1. He is a lunatic. In a BeeGees clip he just butted in with my discussion with all his arrogant show off of his supposed knowledge in music. And whatever topic he is there from politics to music pretending he is genus correcting spellings grammar etc on people. He must be an insecure impotent oldie who vent his frustration by promoting his own arrogant claim of knowledge. Talking to him is a waste of time. He is a total moron who cannot understand.
@mattb127 JJMFB1 also brag about fighting for freedom. I tell you what, those who really fought for freedom never talk about it. And here is this coward impotent going all over Youtube talking about his fight for freedom. With his IQ he can't even be admitted by the militia. He was probably a civilian cook in the navy and brag to be a hero. What a shameful and pitiful old fart that guy is.
@mattb127 Matty girl,Lawrence Welk may not have known what one toke meant,but his stupidity made him a multi-millionaire and laughed all the way,his show was not my taste but enough older folks listened for several years and he was a major star. Never did he talk politics,he just played music.my point about your lib friends clinton and edwards was that they were low lifes like you and all libs who hate Reps. getting some in your case would be little boys,I've fought for freedom,what have done.
@mattb127 Only a fool like you could equate Welk as a political anything Welk was from a time when most people went to vote and did not preach to people about how screwed up we all are,he may not have known what this song really was about,he was told it was a gospel song and he liked the song and music, I'm sure in your lefty world libs never make mistakes,or at least never admit it, J. Edwards never fathered his love child and clinton never lied about all the women he had,and what is is, moron
@mattb127 I agree that the people on the Lawrence Welk show probably didn't know what they were singing about. My Grandparents,Parents, and In-Laws loved the show and they were life long liberal Democrats and I am sure they would not know what Toking meant. I don't think this made them dumb. Most older people in the early 70's did not know anything about toking or it would not have gotten the airplay that it did back then. Times have changed
OH these musicians and vocalists sure did know exactly what they were singing about. I have watched the PBS specials of Lawrence Welk and each of the old singers take turns hosting a chat segment right where they would break for commercial. In talking about t they did admit they got one over the censors of that day since they tagged it as a spiritual song siting the Sweet Jesus lyrics.
@mattb127: Oh puhleeze. If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
What's so funny? I guess you people never knew that in real life was a huge pot-head. Man could put Bob Marley to shame. Used to grow it too. It was the shit!
I love that the band is wearing all green suits like a N.O.R.M.L. conference! Guess it's a spiritual song for the sacred church of Rastafarian. Blessed be the Lord - pass the bong!
@scuttlebuttlodge: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
Lawrence Welk thought this was a Christian song! hahahahaha what an idiot. just because a song has jesus and sweet mary doesnt mean it's christian you idiot! hahahaha
@kmatosky There are 2 musicians named Dick Dale. The one on the Welk show was born in 1926 according to wikipedia while the Surf Guitarist was born in 1937.
Yes, kiddies, this really *did* happen! I know, because I *remember* it --- I was eight years old at the time, and my grandparents always watched LW (without irony). Now, I was a bit of a "late bloomer", and hadn't yet experienced The Devil's Tobaccy for myself, but I knew what "toking" was, and I think this may've been the very first time in my then-young life that I said to myself, "Self, did we really just see and hear that?" :-))
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! This funny as hell!!! 1970s Christian folk singers singing a song about smoking marijuana & didn't have clue what they were singing about probably until years later! What a wake up call that was!!!!! Religious song? Yeah, it's a religious song about smoking weed. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
@MrBrombomb: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
Oh man, that is priceless. I guess all you have to do is put the words "sweet Jesus" in a song and Christians will think it's a "modern spiritual". What a great way to be subversive!
Clealry Welk didnt realize the DANGER. Marijuana is the Assassin of youth. It leads to Addiction,Criminality,Moral Decrepitude,and even the Homosexual Disorder.After just a few sips of the deadly,addictive smoke and *WHAM-O* people go straight into the HEROIN addiction. This has been well documented.This is why its called the "Gateway Drug" Just Say No, Do everything possible to prevent your kids from drugs,Their LIFE depends on it.Just Say NO
"Man, this is the way to travel," said my attorney. He leaned over to turn the volume up on the radio, humming along with the rhythm section and kind of moaning the words: "One toke over the line . . . Sweet Jesus . . . One toke over the line . . ."
Also, love how Myron is choking in the introduction. He may also be a toke or two over the line. Did that accordion double as a bellows-powered bong of some kind?
Can't believe Gail and Dale sang this. I'm sure Lawrence didn't know what it was about. Brewer and Shipley said they wrote a song that Lawrence WelK AND Jerry Garcia did.
Haha at the end of the song Laurence says "And there you go a modern day spiritual by Dale and Gail . I think he put to much enfaces on the "Sweet Jesus " and not enough on the "One toke over the line". It's actually blasphemous in that It is synonymous with me saying " God damn, I took one to many hits off that joint " Its funny , that show was made the year i was born and now i 've grown still one toke over the line. Whats a generation gap because i think my Moms record collection kicks ass?
Considering that this particular group of people were the largest consumers of legal and illegal drugs, I can assure you they knew exactly what they were singing about...
UNBELIEVABLE. They don't even have a clue what they are singing about. I wonder if anyone ever told them (and Lawrence Welk) what the song meant, and if so, what the reaction was!
@planeguy141: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
Oh, and before I forget ("micro-amnesia"? :-)~), Myron Cohen sounds like *he's* "one toke over the line" when he's announcing the performance! At the very least, he knows what the lyrics mean and is fighting hard to keep from cracking-up :-)) . . .
"Fifteen Stars"! :-D This is the best thing, EVER! I grew up in Oklahoma, though I wasn't native, and in some weird way this reminds me of dear old Tulsa *chuckle!*. "Oral Roberts on Dope" LOL!
Oh, you're kidding, vhsstillok --- she really *did* go to ORU? :-)~ I almost should've known that "first-hand" (we moved to Tulsa in '71). I repeat: "You *can't* make this stuff up!" :-))
Ah, good old Lawrence Welk. When I was a kid — before the days of cable, when TVs only had 13 channels and half of those were nothing but white noise — The Lawrence Welk Show was the ONLY thing on at 7pm on Saturday evenings in the Los Angeles area, so I watched it. I have no doubt that's why I'm as fucked up as I am today.
violetxoxox 1 week ago
Clueless. Like Santorum or Teabagging.
Kazzzo 2 weeks ago
I bet someone got fired the next day...
Archae06 2 weeks ago
I wonder if anyone ever told them what they were singing about? Someone should've suggested that they do "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
htiekbor 3 weeks ago
Do these people even know what a "toke" is?
quirpco 3 weeks ago
Is that "the" Dick Dale....the surf guitar player??? If it is, I am glad he stuck with the guitar. His vocal was totally flat :0)
buckgiblet 3 weeks ago
@buckgiblet I wondered the same thing. Could it be the same guy??
TheDeblulu 2 weeks ago
i like thi version better!
slideguy100 3 weeks ago
This was old Larry Welk's pathetic attempt to attract a younger audience. (Most of his fans were octogenarian GERITOL swiggers, with one foot in their grave.) Laughable.
HolenOne9 3 weeks ago
The accordian player sounded like he just smoked a bowl!! lol
TheLadyjazzy1 3 weeks ago
I would love to kick back and smoke one with her!!!
lovetrain442 1 month ago 2
@lovetrain442 Maybe you would've like to do that 40 yrs ago. Now she is about 64 so are you sure about that?
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It must have been the Geritol (old people's alcohol-fueled "tonic" sponsor of the show) that turned all of their brains to mush so that they did not understand the lyrics. The song is loaded with drug references. Yeah and The Dead's "Casey Jones" is about a train conductor, too. Some people!
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Mikephx 1 month ago
Third stanza, 5th line: If I should choose to make a part of me,... always sounded like "to make a pot of me." Really. Hell, it is a modern spiritual when you take too-big a toke, it is Instant Karma and you start coughing, just like the introducing MC! Just look at the YouTube alternative videos in the right column. One Toke must have been after Welk gave up on hiding his long-hair hippie guitar player in the late 60's.
jmstarry 1 month ago
Jesus packs my bowl
minnowpd 1 month ago
@minnowpd sounds to me like the accordion player had too big a hit before he went on.
oscarbird2 1 month ago
Jesus packs my bowl
minnowpd 1 month ago 2
Welk's own comment at the end of this piece establishes that they all thought they were doing a "modern spiritual." This is how Christians get fooled by millionaire TV evangelists: You slip in the word "Jesus" and they think it's God talking.
nimbleswitch 2 months ago in playlist THE songs..... 2
Apparently Brewer and Shipley laughed their asses off about this, as it happened like a week after Vice President Spiro Agnew blamed them for corrupting the nation's youth.
ebonics4everyone 2 months ago 10
Things were changing in the '70s, I guess. Even Lawrence Welk was toking it up.
ebonics4everyone 2 months ago
Did EVERYBODY involved in the taping of this tune really think this was a Gospel tune? There had to be some jazz musicians in the band that day who were biting their cheeks to keep from guffawing out loud.
nimbleswitch 2 months ago 3
Brilliant....a smoking song on Mr. Middleclass Living-Room's show. As always, done with that Stepford Wives quality of rendition.
They should have had the haze machine going, just for the final touch.
Where were the 70es circular video effects when you really needed them....:-)
BaronEmpain 2 months ago 3
Get high on Jesus(With a little help from THC)
handinside 3 months ago
WTF....
PTTurboe 3 months ago
I bet Gail Farrell had a bush that would knock your Aunt Connie's socks off!
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Come ON now!!!!!
Persephone61 3 months ago
She does have a fivehead lol
TheWizardofGore 3 months ago
If you think this stuff is brilliant now, drop a tab.
suzbailey23 3 months ago
Was her forehead that big or was I looking through a couple of bubbles?
LOL4Polio 4 months ago
@getula4003 Like Bill Clinton! LMAO!!!! This would have aired about the time Bill Clinton smoke pot but never inhaled.
AXESMI 4 months ago
Did I hear? "who do ya love, I hope it's weed?
Dyanderringer 4 months ago
FYI Lawrence Welk was a Big Band leader from the 40's Swing era. This was not a religion show. I think most parents were clueless to the meaning of rock songs their children were listening to.
AXESMI 4 months ago
@mattb127 How is this Conservative?
AXESMI 4 months ago
Next week "Smoke on the Water" and "The Needle and the Damage Done".
LOL
"Go ask Alice...when she's ten feet tall......." (White Rabbit)
AXESMI 4 months ago
I think the Lawrence Welk show was like the Rock of Gibraltar -- i.e. the last place Neanderthals were know to have existed long after modern humans had taken over Europe.
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Did anyoneone else notice that the MC starts things off by choking on Dick?
guruuDev 4 months ago
Fits perfectly, I mean... the only conceivable explanation for the existence of the Lawrence Welk show would be that the artists, the studio audience, the viewers, the production designers, the network execs and Lawrence himself were all stoned out of their skulls.
YourMamaBinLadin 4 months ago 25
AHAHAHAH fucking zealots this is ridiculous
0live0wire0 4 months ago 6
A modern spiritual!!! Ohhhh Yeah
sgthighspeed 4 months ago
Reefer Madness!!! Run Away!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sgthighspeed 4 months ago
They totally know. Lawrence totally knows.
AwfulBandName 5 months ago
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guruuDev 5 months ago
I think they got high off the fumes of all that polyester they wore -- not to mention the hairspray.
guruuDev 5 months ago
lol im smoking out to this song and its the shit!!!
longboardinman 5 months ago 2
myron coughs during intro of the duet...did he have one toke too many?
VTMCompany 5 months ago 2
Wow, that was amazing. They obviously had no clue.
svwildflower 6 months ago 2
too bad her name wasn't Mary Jane.
VTMCompany 6 months ago
Too Darn funny, they thought they were singing a religious song and they were actually singing about getting baked. Sweet Mary wasn't the Virgin Mary!
blackladee87 6 months ago
I still love watching L,W. My 11 year old died laughing watching it with me.:what are they wearing daddy" she ask me
bakacheeka 6 months ago 2
One toke? Poor fools, wait till they see them goddamn bats, man . . .
RupertDCD27 7 months ago
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Liberals always love to make every little thing political. They love queers, drugs, and no rules at all for that matter
grossdale1 7 months ago
Ha Ha Ha!!! Gotta love it!! Crazy conservatives really don't think, do they!! This almost doesn't seem real!!
TheMJtheGOD 7 months ago 2
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Leave it to a moronic liberal to make this a political thing...what an A**mattb127
amigorobo 8 months ago
Leave it to a moronic liberal to make this a political thing...what an A**mattb127
amigorobo 8 months ago
@amigorobo How can one not make it political?? These crazy con fundies should try using both hemispheres of their brains!!
TheMJtheGOD 7 months ago
We can't stop here, this is Bat Country.
xNlNjA 8 months ago
had jesus in the lyrics! hahahahahaha
PASSINGAS69 8 months ago
immediately after singing this song they both went out back and smoked a joint and had sex!
Eddie2446 8 months ago
my favorite Lawrence Welk introduction was Welk himself, introducing a song, like this. "... and now they are going to perform, 'Take thee, a Train' " What a goof.
LesHut 9 months ago
@mattb127 We are not dumb at all.. Lawrence Welk was not up to speed on what this song meant..
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Gail and Dale look like their one toke over the line themselves. So when is LW going to do Paint it Black by Rolling Stones?
garyseven710 9 months ago
Gail and Dale look like their one toke over the line themselves. So when is LW going to do Pain it Black by Rolling Stones?
garyseven710 9 months ago
@garyseven710 Given that he's been dead for years, it won't be any time soon. I've always heard rumors that he did secret sessions with Frank Zappa...ok, there ARE no such rumors but I really REALLY wish there were. Is that a bad thing?
KennBurch 9 months ago 2
I don't get it.
TheAlphaNarwal 9 months ago
wow. 1971. Don't remember this one. My folks used to watch that, umm, 'religiously.'
I think it's more humorous, now, though, since the 'culture' has become more mainstream.
sirnotesy 9 months ago
@mattb127 how do you get that out of this, you are just a hater
BloodNorseGods 9 months ago
love it.... just like real gospel heye?? well it is a love song right???? ahahhahah
sydoz1956 9 months ago
The song does mention Jesus, y'know.
vootie99 9 months ago
A parody could not have been funnier.
jlbaker2000 10 months ago 3
Hey! It's Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin!
pepper6324 10 months ago 2
This is what the Ed Sullivan show would have looked like if it was programmed by Ned Flanders.
A "modern day spiritual"??? Really? Bwahahahahhaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!1
Bp323 10 months ago 2
i haven't laughed this hard in a long long time!
doobiebrother67 10 months ago
it gets better at 1:45 in, the break really made me laugh
BravoJ75 10 months ago
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!
Commiton 10 months ago
@mattb127 bathroom mat,so many mistake where to start,one we are spell wrong but I at least try to correct it,you have no clue,a libertarian is not a leftist you moron,they just believe in no government and no drugs laws.If you ever get a job you are a corporate slave,business people make 90% of all US jobs,for me I started my own small business,and have the pains to prove it.I work for myself and my family,you suck at the tit of society.I love FREEDOM and I fought for it what did you do,moron
JJMFB1 10 months ago
@mattb127 Don't waste your time with JJMFB1. He is a lunatic. In a BeeGees clip he just butted in with my discussion with all his arrogant show off of his supposed knowledge in music. And whatever topic he is there from politics to music pretending he is genus correcting spellings grammar etc on people. He must be an insecure impotent oldie who vent his frustration by promoting his own arrogant claim of knowledge. Talking to him is a waste of time. He is a total moron who cannot understand.
ambrosiobertodazo 10 months ago
@mattb127 JJMFB1 also brag about fighting for freedom. I tell you what, those who really fought for freedom never talk about it. And here is this coward impotent going all over Youtube talking about his fight for freedom. With his IQ he can't even be admitted by the militia. He was probably a civilian cook in the navy and brag to be a hero. What a shameful and pitiful old fart that guy is.
ambrosiobertodazo 10 months ago
they knew what they were singing look at the body language before they sing the song
greatmaker1052008 11 months ago
I'd like to get one toke over the line with her and put my joint in her. Think she would know what that is?
pwreric 11 months ago
thnx everybody for making me laugh it IS a classic;)))) 1 toke!
mouse12345ify 11 months ago
Awesome to see such squares saying the word "toke".
Thejbirdy 11 months ago
Looks like Welk was "one toke over the line" when he introduced this
StimpsonJay 1 year ago
Cute. "Dick Dale"... I almost thought it was "Thee Dick Dale", surf guitar hero. Whew (Thank Jesus), it wasn't.
--Van
van1976 1 year ago
i wonder how many times they sang this before someone told them what it was about? this is great, a modern spiritual
monkeys1954 1 year ago
They're blazing. Just look at 'em!
unklekranky 1 year ago
@mattb127 Matty girl,Lawrence Welk may not have known what one toke meant,but his stupidity made him a multi-millionaire and laughed all the way,his show was not my taste but enough older folks listened for several years and he was a major star. Never did he talk politics,he just played music.my point about your lib friends clinton and edwards was that they were low lifes like you and all libs who hate Reps. getting some in your case would be little boys,I've fought for freedom,what have done.
JJMFB1 1 year ago
@mattb127 Only a fool like you could equate Welk as a political anything Welk was from a time when most people went to vote and did not preach to people about how screwed up we all are,he may not have known what this song really was about,he was told it was a gospel song and he liked the song and music, I'm sure in your lefty world libs never make mistakes,or at least never admit it, J. Edwards never fathered his love child and clinton never lied about all the women he had,and what is is, moron
JJMFB1 1 year ago
a hiarious hatchet job
roblau004 1 year ago
velveeta cheesey!
TheHeliumkid 1 year ago
@mattb127 I agree that the people on the Lawrence Welk show probably didn't know what they were singing about. My Grandparents,Parents, and In-Laws loved the show and they were life long liberal Democrats and I am sure they would not know what Toking meant. I don't think this made them dumb. Most older people in the early 70's did not know anything about toking or it would not have gotten the airplay that it did back then. Times have changed
daneboyz1 1 year ago
@mattb127 I don't think you can assume that they belong to any or either party simply by watching a video. Those were simpler times then.
daneboyz1 1 year ago
Just frekin awsome!
wigwam622 1 year ago
great song!!!!!
LetArtsLive 1 year ago
OH these musicians and vocalists sure did know exactly what they were singing about. I have watched the PBS specials of Lawrence Welk and each of the old singers take turns hosting a chat segment right where they would break for commercial. In talking about t they did admit they got one over the censors of that day since they tagged it as a spiritual song siting the Sweet Jesus lyrics.
LMAO!!! Even Mr. Welk Knew.
Pattijen 1 year ago
mattb and lsdariuss, you are obviously very, very young and very, very naive.
DeborahEastin 1 year ago
@mattb127 amen 2 that!!
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@mattb127: Oh puhleeze. If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
NickB1967 1 year ago
What's so funny? I guess you people never knew that in real life was a huge pot-head. Man could put Bob Marley to shame. Used to grow it too. It was the shit!
daven58100 1 year ago
I love that the band is wearing all green suits like a N.O.R.M.L. conference! Guess it's a spiritual song for the sacred church of Rastafarian. Blessed be the Lord - pass the bong!
princessbrtz 1 year ago
Sweet JESUS!
Thank you Lord for our blessed sacrament!
phlood69 1 year ago
Hillarious! Those two wouldn't have a clue what a "toke"was!
scuttlebuttlodge 1 year ago
@scuttlebuttlodge: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
NickB1967 1 year ago
It may be utter crap, but they DID make it into some kind of a gospel song. And that wasn't easy to do ... not even in those costumes.
Rajamuttu 1 year ago
i bet the real dumb asses are still singng this in church
lowaces 1 year ago 2
Great! Even a key change...pass the brownies!
TheGuidingHermit 1 year ago
Lawrence Welk thought this was a Christian song! hahahahaha what an idiot. just because a song has jesus and sweet mary doesnt mean it's christian you idiot! hahahaha
pacman12312 1 year ago
That is hilarious! Lawrence Welk was probably in the back hitting the bong. I'm sure he got the lutefisk munchies later on. ;)
SputnikJunior 1 year ago
look at how that dude is all up on that lady's balls. if they were/are married, i bet he beats the shit out of her when the dishes arent washed.
juicerooster 1 year ago 2
I thought that Dick Dale was that Surf Guitar guy!!!!!!!!!
kmatosky 1 year ago
@kmatosky There are 2 musicians named Dick Dale. The one on the Welk show was born in 1926 according to wikipedia while the Surf Guitarist was born in 1937.
markhu2 1 year ago
OMG!! that is funny....they took it "Modern Spiritual" LOL LOl...I grew up with this song, they never sang it in church!!
Devansha1 1 year ago
@mattb127
Amazing that you just KNOW that they are conservatives!
amberandemily 1 year ago
it just never gets old. Makes me wanna get high as kite and watch it again and again
eahazell 1 year ago
@mattb127 Hey!! I'm mostly conservative and I"m not dumb!! We're not all idiots!! :-)
jessbear1979 1 year ago 2
Unreal.
morleybolero 1 year ago
This is funny as shit! LOL!!!! They are singing about smoking weed.....hehehehehe....
DetroitLives313 1 year ago
Of course Jim Morrison got into trouble for singing the phrase "Girl we coudn't get much hgher" on The Ed Sullivan show..
kristov29 1 year ago
ROFL this is real life comedy gold!
truthslap 1 year ago
Yes, kiddies, this really *did* happen! I know, because I *remember* it --- I was eight years old at the time, and my grandparents always watched LW (without irony). Now, I was a bit of a "late bloomer", and hadn't yet experienced The Devil's Tobaccy for myself, but I knew what "toking" was, and I think this may've been the very first time in my then-young life that I said to myself, "Self, did we really just see and hear that?" :-))
sdingeswho 1 year ago 11
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! This funny as hell!!! 1970s Christian folk singers singing a song about smoking marijuana & didn't have clue what they were singing about probably until years later! What a wake up call that was!!!!! Religious song? Yeah, it's a religious song about smoking weed. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
MrBrombomb 1 year ago
@MrBrombomb: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
NickB1967 1 year ago
Too Fucking funny,
My parents loved this show my brother and sister and I hated it.
I bet they thought is was about Jesus.
racefan32 1 year ago
this is the best thing i have ever seen lol
EmmaLeigh18 1 year ago
HaHaHa Sweet revenge..lol
leemarie1111 1 year ago
Brewer and Shipley: Epic WIN, nearly forty years in the future. Oh, wait...
OK, seriously, I can't find any info as to whether this is the same Dick Dale as "The King of Surf Guitar" Dick Dale. Anyone? Bueller?
WriterDude 1 year ago
absolutely NOT the same Dick Dale, are you kidding? The real Dick Dale is a blonde. And he's a BIG guy. And, he's not completely clue-free.
kynoceph 1 year ago
Take a toke-a one, a two,a three
Burrellfan1 1 year ago
Cool.
ibhardeeone1 1 year ago
Oh man, that is priceless. I guess all you have to do is put the words "sweet Jesus" in a song and Christians will think it's a "modern spiritual". What a great way to be subversive!
bonjourdadou 1 year ago
LOL man that is a solid 10
keymankeys1960 1 year ago
there's no way they knew what they were singing about, I would love to see Lawrence Welk's face when he found out what it means.
1074mitch 1 year ago
YES!
darkwhitedirewolf 1 year ago
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Clealry Welk didnt realize the DANGER. Marijuana is the Assassin of youth. It leads to Addiction,Criminality,Moral Decrepitude,and even the Homosexual Disorder.After just a few sips of the deadly,addictive smoke and *WHAM-O* people go straight into the HEROIN addiction. This has been well documented.This is why its called the "Gateway Drug" Just Say No, Do everything possible to prevent your kids from drugs,Their LIFE depends on it.Just Say NO
wiseoneetest 1 year ago
pot is god
mavman16 1 year ago
"Man, this is the way to travel," said my attorney. He leaned over to turn the volume up on the radio, humming along with the rhythm section and kind of moaning the words: "One toke over the line . . . Sweet Jesus . . . One toke over the line . . ."
Also, love how Myron is choking in the introduction. He may also be a toke or two over the line. Did that accordion double as a bellows-powered bong of some kind?
jjsmallbridge 1 year ago 3
This reminds me of Hee Haw hahahaha!
AdamMichaelMercer 2 years ago
They sure could sing loud and clear. And also real (although this is fake) but today's music is all computer made and more into looks then talent.
Barbra Streisand wouldn't make a change nower days, somebody told me, and I think he was right.
RoadlessPath 2 years ago
@RoadlessPath a prime example odf that I must say is Taylor Swift
AdamMichaelMercer 2 years ago
Can't believe Gail and Dale sang this. I'm sure Lawrence didn't know what it was about. Brewer and Shipley said they wrote a song that Lawrence WelK AND Jerry Garcia did.
TheJwood45154 2 years ago
Haha at the end of the song Laurence says "And there you go a modern day spiritual by Dale and Gail . I think he put to much enfaces on the "Sweet Jesus " and not enough on the "One toke over the line". It's actually blasphemous in that It is synonymous with me saying " God damn, I took one to many hits off that joint " Its funny , that show was made the year i was born and now i 've grown still one toke over the line. Whats a generation gap because i think my Moms record collection kicks ass?
usucmehardutube 2 years ago
Back then people used to talk about the "Generation Gap."
catchersmitt0 2 years ago
Again with the Illuminati.
8thatchmo 2 years ago
One took, you fool?!
Nimnoms 2 years ago
wrong!
thedude888890 2 years ago
"A 'modern' spiritual". Ha!
odin650 2 years ago
Hilarious!!!!!!
whyputaname 2 years ago 2
Holy smoke! Now that's funny, I don't care who you are... That's funny!
Steve35660 2 years ago 24
@Steve35660 Holy "smoke"! Good word choice!
chrisz31974 9 months ago
well they clearly knew what they were singing about! lol everyone got high back then!
suckmynut23 2 years ago
one toke over the line! SWEET JESUS! GOD DANG BATZ
imbob1234566 2 years ago
This is hysterically funny the orginal sucks but I love this 1 hysterical
coolsweetgroovy 2 years ago
My guess is Gail and Dick new what they were singing but the band and Lawrence had no idea. Look at their faces, they know it's hilarious.
jgigante 2 years ago 3
omg i love it! LOL LOL LOL LOL
bogadea 2 years ago
actually they believed it to be a gospel song ...
silentslayer69 2 years ago 3
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silentslayer69 2 years ago
jebus + drugs = lol
goobernutz 2 years ago 4
Considering that this particular group of people were the largest consumers of legal and illegal drugs, I can assure you they knew exactly what they were singing about...
trididos 2 years ago
Actually i think they were one Joke over the line..
SURFSTYLEY3 2 years ago
UNBELIEVABLE. They don't even have a clue what they are singing about. I wonder if anyone ever told them (and Lawrence Welk) what the song meant, and if so, what the reaction was!
planeguy141 2 years ago
Clueless conservatives. Always good for laffs.
Reminds me of the teabaggers.
nad1yahoo 2 years ago
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@planeguy141: If you notice the sly grins of "Gayle and Dale", and the *cough* for the accordion guy introducing the song, it's pretty clear that they *knew* they were getting something past the censors.
NickB1967 1 year ago
...and then "Animal- f**k like a beast by W.A.S.P.
dsaint1 2 years ago
Hahahahaha, that would be a good follow up!
daliwndrland 2 years ago
ah carumba!
JazzEthics 2 years ago
And after this, they did "A Passage to Bangkok" by Rush...
nov20five 2 years ago 2
And then, I heard the encore was "Sweet Leaf" by Black Sabbath! :-D
sdingeswho 2 years ago
Oh, and before I forget ("micro-amnesia"? :-)~), Myron Cohen sounds like *he's* "one toke over the line" when he's announcing the performance! At the very least, he knows what the lyrics mean and is fighting hard to keep from cracking-up :-)) . . .
sdingeswho 2 years ago
"Fifteen Stars"! :-D This is the best thing, EVER! I grew up in Oklahoma, though I wasn't native, and in some weird way this reminds me of dear old Tulsa *chuckle!*. "Oral Roberts on Dope" LOL!
sdingeswho 2 years ago
Lol, Gail went to ORU and was Miss Tulsa in 1967. She got 1st runner-up to Miss Oklahoma that year
vhsstillok 2 years ago
Oh, you're kidding, vhsstillok --- she really *did* go to ORU? :-)~ I almost should've known that "first-hand" (we moved to Tulsa in '71). I repeat: "You *can't* make this stuff up!" :-))
sdingeswho 2 years ago
Hep, true true. Fun how truth is stranger than fictions sometimes. What is really funny is that she won the swimsuit competition!
vhsstillok 2 years ago
lol they never read the lyrics, "it waiting for the train to SMOKE sweet Mary"
BenGreenback 2 years ago
WunnerfulaWunnerful
JimmyDeLocke 3 years ago
Dude... Larry was a big time stoner, alot of people didn't know that.
PacificoastHwy 3 years ago
"one toke over the line"
now no one saw that this was a song about pot...
but the guy that sang
"puff the magic dragon" STILL cant convince anyone it wasnt about drugs...
what gives?
xgenra 3 years ago 2
and neither was HR Puff 'n' Stuff, lol
racefan32 1 year ago