For Lindsey Graham, Debbie Reynolds’ “If I had a hammer” (video)

you are crazy. no way that’s Ann-Margret.

The dancing, quartet, and the arrangement were really strange, but I couldn’t help thinking that Debbie was doing this in order to spark interest in her movie, “The Singing Nun”. It may have had the opposite effect.

What about natural curiosity? I find it amazing that Welk didn’t ask, “What’s a toke?” I’m certain that some of the musicians had the answer.

Welk was clueless when he said, “modern spiritual.” I wonder if anyone in his “band” knew? ;-) ( musicians are usually way ahead of where most everyone else are. )

Oh! To be “one toke over the line” and then watching the Lawrence Welk Show. Talk about psychodrama and hallucinations.

And as far as Miss LGrrrrr goes, republicans always parse and never include whole messages–they’ve never been original and their public can’t grasp whole, 3-d messages. They’ve become political white noise.

my my buddy’s sister makes $87 every hour on the internet
. She has been unemployed for 6 months but last month her payment was $19402
just working on the internet for a few hours. go right here M­o­n­e­y­d­u­t­i­e­s­.­C­O­M­sister makes $87 every hour on themy buddy’s sister makes $87 every hour on the internet
. She has been unemployed for 6 months but last month her payment was $19402
just working on the internet for a few hours. go right here M­o­n­e­y­d­u­t­i­e­s­.­C­O­M­ internet
. She has been unemployed for 6 months but last month her payment was $19402
just working on the internet for a few hours. go right here M­o­n­e­y­d­u­t­i­e­s­.­C­O­M­

puleez! Debbie would be insulted having her name mentioned in the same phrase as Miss Lindsey. i was impressed with the Italian subtitles though…

Oh, man, my wife showed this to me a couple of weeks ago. HI-larious! Absolutely no clue as to the marijuana reference. Conservatives can be so block-headed, no?

But anyway, Jeebus.

Oh, and I likes me that ‘sexy flamenco’ dancer with the B52 and the saucy smile. Grrrr, baby, grrr!

I assume they mean toke, as in inhaling a joint? So the song is about getting too high?

Amazing. Plus color coordinated costume designer country bumpkin outfits. I think they focused on the train and Jesus and the love parts. Stolen from Songfacts:

This song is about drugs, especially marijuana. A “Toke” is a puff from a marijuana cigarette or pipe. Tom Shipley explained: “When we wrote ‘One Toke Over the Line,’ I think we were one toke over the line. I considered marijuana a sort of a sacrament… If you listen to the lyrics of that song, ‘one toke’ was just a metaphor. It’s a song about excess. Too much of anything will probably kill you.”

Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley were Folk singers in Los Angeles. This was their only hit.

Brewer says of the song’s origin: “We wrote that one night in the dressing room of a coffee house. We were literally just entertaining ourselves. The next day we got together to do some picking and said, ‘What was that we were messing with last night?’ We remembered it, and in about an hour, we’d written ‘One Toke Over the Line.’ Just making ourselves laugh, really. We had no idea that it would ever even be considered as a single, because it was just another song to us. Actually Tom and I always thought that our ballads were our forte.” (quotes from brewerandshipley.com)

Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead was brought in to play played steel guitar on the Tarkio sessions. He didn’t play on “One Toke Over The Line,” but did appear on the B-side, “Oh Mommy’ (I Ain’t No Commie).”

Some radio stations refused to play this song because of the drug references, but not everyone got this meaning. In 1971 the song was performed on the Lawrence Welk Show by a wholesome looking couple Gail Farrell and Dick Dale, who clearly had NO clue what a toke was. Welk, at the conclusion of the performance of the song, remarked, without any hint of humor, “there you’ve heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale.” Brewer & Shipley heard about the performance and searched for the footage, but didn’t see it until the clip showed up on YouTube in 2007.

the (late, lamented) Lollipop Building type set pieces are pretty cool too.

Wow. What a total disconnect between the message of the song and the visual representation by the singer and dancers. Reminds me of the Lawrence Welk show, which did a great job of taking songs with serious messages and social content, and reducing them to trite, kitschy rubble, sung by women with big hair and swirling long dresses.

And then one has to ask, when Welk show did “One Toke Over the Line”m whether they really knew or had any clue what that meant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg

Eva . I can see what your saying… Robert `s comment
is surprising, last thursday I bought themselves a Infiniti from making $7905
this – 4 weeks past and-also, ten-k last month . with-out a doubt this is the
easiest-work Ive ever done . I began this 8-months ago and right away started
to earn minimum $82 per/hr . official website R­e­x­1­0­.­C­O­M­

Reason 943 why Eddie Fisher dumped Debbie for Liz. YAWN.

i can definitely answer half your question, it isn’t the best, i will leave the rest to others.