In 1971, folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley released their pot smoking anthem "One Toke Over the Line." Although they wrote it as a joke, it ended up being their most (ok, only) commercially successful hit. The song's success peaked after VP Spiro Agnew publicly denounced it as subversive propaganda that "threatens to sap our national strength."
At least one person missed Agnew's missive: bandleader Lawrence Welk. Apparently unfamiliar with the word "toke," Welk mistakenly thought the song was a "modern spiritual" (his words). Days after Agnew's statement, Welk featured it on his anything-but-subversive show, performed by the squeaky clean Gail Farrell and Dick Dale.
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