Here’s a performance of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66” by Dick Dale with Kenny Trimble and Charlie Perlato, along with Bobby Burgess, Arthur Duncan, and Jack Imel in their tap shoes in a 1973 episode of “The Lawrence Welk Show.”
It’s so square it’s almost cool. Almost.
I admit to being disappointed the performance didn’t feature the other Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar.” The thought of having the other Dick Dale blasting away would have been a bizarre — yet wunnerful — moment on Welk’s show.
Sometimes it’s “Hip to be square!” It was kinda catchy. An a one, an a two……:-)