Yes. That was done completely without irony. Welk was a … bit unfunky  compared to, say the Benny Goodman band or Bob Wills, but if you troll thrift store album covers and maybe read Sippican Cottage you can get a sense of it. There was a time when everybody really was a nerd.

Yes. That was done completely without irony. Welk was a … bit unfunky  compared to, say the Benny Goodman band or Bob Wills, but if you troll thrift store album covers and maybe read Sippican Cottage you can get a sense of it. There was a time when everybody really was a nerd.