Mother Road music on tap

Here’s a sing-and-tap version of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66” by Merry Lou Metzger and Jack Imel on a 1980 episode of “The Lawrence Welk Show.”

That’ll never be as surreal as this moment from the Welk show.

2 thoughts on “Mother Road music on tap

  1. OK, that surreal clip was just mind blowing. Never knew Welk could be so far out man! Still rolling on the floor laughing. Think he ever even wondered what that term meant?

  2. Found this on songfacts.com:

    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.

    (Brewer & Shipley wrote the song)

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