OK - after posting my own little Chicken Party video on YouTube, featuring a soundtrack of the beloved Chicken Dance, I stumbled upon this rather bizarre clip from the Lawrence Welk Show, (circa 1960's) featuring the Chicken Dance as performed by classic Welkazoids. I grew up with the LWS - we watched it pretty much every weekend in the early days. I remember I always thought the hyper-perky blonde piano lady was a scary, malfunctioning robot, or possibly just batshit insane. I still wonder... 

But the best part is that now I know the dirt about old Larry... seems he spent some time in Northwest Iowa and surrounding areas in his younger days as a touring band leader. When I was old enough to hear such scandalous stuff (about 45 I think), my folks and my aunt related some stories about the Welkster - seems he was a pretty randy fella - a "ladie's man", if you will, and apparently left a bit of DNA behind in the form of illegitimate offspring, or so it's speculated. Actually I'm glad I didn't know this as a kid, or I might have worried that I was actually one of his spawn, and that would be very unsettling. Nah - my mom would never do that - she's near Mother Teresa level when it comes to ethics and morals. Whew.

So, almost better than the Welkian video, itself was the synopsis posted by the video's poster, "tashcrash" - read on: