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If you miss the “toke” reference, then the song just sounds like a normal pop song.Īnd that was what the producers of the Lawrence Welk Show were thinking when they had one of the recurring musical acts on the group, Gail and Dale, perform the tune on the show (referring to it as a modern day spiritual). Waitin’ for the train that goes home, sweet Mary Sittin’ downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line However, it is not like the whole song talks about drugs constantly – the line “one toke over the line” is the only time drugs are mentioned, so if you did not know that “toke” was a drug reference, which is very reasonable at the time for a certain segment of the population, then the rest of the song seems normal enough. One Toke Over The Line - Lawrence Welk - WTF (1971) 1,687,831 views 8.7K Dislike Share Save clotho98 8.28K subscribers Subscribe Did they realize what they were singing Gail Farrell.

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The song’s title (and chorus) is a pretty explicit reference to drugs, as it is referring to taking a “toke” from a marijuana joint. Share, download and print one toke over the line by Brewer & Shipley free sheet music with the worlds largest community of sheet music creators, composers. Their biggest hit was a song called “One Toke Over the Line” in 1971. The men were folk singers known for their intricate guitar work. Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley were a musical duo known as Brewer and Shipley. In one of its first seasons in syndication, the Lawrence Welk Show had one of its most surreal music performances ever.

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It stayed on the air until 1970, when it was a casualty of the cuts in prime time mentioned in the previous installment of TV Legends Revealed.Īnd just like similar “victim” Hee Haw, the Lawrence Welk Show took advantage of the new demand for syndicated programming (because the various TV stations now had all this time that they couldn’t fill with network programming any more) and began airing in syndication, lasting another 12 seasons. It ran as a local program in Los Angeles for a few years in the early 1950s before coming to ABC in 1955. The show was pretty much defined by how wholesome it was – it was an extremely family-friendly endeavor. The Lawrence Welk Show was an extremely long-running music variety show hosted by bandleader Lawrence Welk. TV URBAN LEGEND: Lawrence Welk played “One Toke Over the Line” on his TV show.

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The album also features John Kahn and Bill Vitt on bass guitar and drums, respectively they were regulars of The Jerry Garcia Band.Īll tracks written by Brewer & Shipley except where noted.Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Jerry Garcia contributed a distinctive steel guitar intro to the track 'Oh Mommy,' which was purportedly a plea to throw Richard Nixon out of office.

Tarkio Road reached #41 in Canada and number 27 in Australia. Some reports have erroneously indicated the album was inspired by a 1969 concert at the Mule Barn at Tarkio College but the group has maintained the song was based on the road. In 2011 they held an outdoor concert in downtown Tarkio to celebrate the anniversary of the album. Route 59 which went through Tarkio, Missouri. President Richard Nixon hated their biggest hit, 1970's campfire-ready One Toke over the Line, while the group hated Nixon on the country picker Oh Mommy (which features a killer Jerry Garcia slide guitar part). The title referred to songs that came to mind when they were driving to and from Kansas City to their gigs in Nebraska and Iowa on the 2-lane U.S. Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley made a career of writing clever, harmony-laden tunes that doubled as anti-war and anti-establishment screeds. The title came about when they left California in 1969 returning to the Midwest, this time to Kansas City, Missouri, where they played college towns in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. Released in 1970, the album (also known as Tarkio Road, as that title was printed on the labels of original pressings of the LP and pre-recorded tapes) yielded the hit singles ' One Toke Over the Line' and 'Tarkio Road.' Tarkio is the third album by Brewer & Shipley.

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