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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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Of Welk and Weed

Posted by Jason Harper on Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM

After scoring a top ten hit with "One Toke Over the Line," California duo Brewer & Shipley moved to rural Missouri. Perhaps it was the complete failure on the part of the mainstream to grasp the subversive nature of the famous song that prompted a move from sunny California to the not-so-sunny (certainly not today) Midwest. Hell, if I wrote a song about smoking pot that begins with a line that essentially means "God damn, I'm high," and it ended up being performed in a preternaturally happy manner by an old-young couple named Gale and Dale on Welk, I'd wanna pack it in, too.

"One Toke Over the Line" as seen on The Lawrence Welk Show

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i freakin love brewer and shipley. happy in bag got me to listen to their version of "wichit-tai-to" and its wonderful. i wish i could make it out to see em...

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Posted by dontneedanything1 on January 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM

Actually, they were from here originally. That album was recorded in KC.

Don't ask how I know that. It isn't worth retelling.

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Posted by tec on January 16, 2008 at 3:51 PM
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