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The Mike Schneider Polka Band, Slovenian-style polka band from Milwaukee, WI [3] Six Fat Dutchmen; Walt Solek, the "Clown Prince of Polka" Jimmy Sturr, United States, eighteen Grammy Awards; Those Darn Accordions; Lawrence Welk, South Dakota; Whoopee John Wilfahrt "Weird Al" Yankovic (Every studio album except his self-titled debut and "Even ...
The band appears to have recorded only as The Mark IV, however, and they had their biggest hit in 1959 with the novelty song, "I Got a Wife" (Mercury 71403). "I Got a Wife" was set to a lively polka beat, and reached No. 24 in US Billboard Hot 100 chart , [ 3 ] and No. 14 on Canadian radio station CHUM's "Chum Chart". [ 4 ]
The concept behind Those Darn Accordions was initially conceived by keyboardist and accordionist Linda "Big Lou" Seekins in early 1989. [2] Seekins, who was active in several Bay Area bands including the polka punk band Polkacide, was called up by the owner of San Francisco's Paradise Lounge and offered an open performance slot if she could put together a band in time. [3]
Jimmy Sturr, the 18 time Grammy Award Winner for Best Polka Album, said of him: "He was one of my idols.I grew up on him...I modeled my band after his Eastern style." [2] Lenny Gomulka, the twelve time Polka Grammy Nominee, said that Larry Chesky was a "pioneer who changed and enhanced the image of polka to the Big Band sound."
Leonard William Hambro, known as Lenny Hambro (October 16, 1923 – September 26, 1995), was a journeyman jazz musician who played woodwinds, primarily alto saxophone, with a host of bands, orchestras, and jazz notables from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, and continued as a session musician, music producer, booking agent, and entertainment coordinator through the mid-1990s.
Bandwagon is a half-hour music program featuring traditional dance music, most notably polka, performed in front of a ballroom audience dancing along. The program is produced and broadcast by KEYC-TV in Mankato, Minnesota. The show began airing November 21, 1960.
Mark 6 or Mark VI, the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible; Mark Six, a lottery game; Vox Mark VI, a 1962 teardrop shaped electric guitar; Selmer Mark VI, high quality saxophone line made by Selmer beginning in the mid-1950s; Mark VI class of industrial control systems used by General Electric
The Washington Post wrote that the album "proves the polka can be every bit as invigorating as a Cajun two-step, another dance music rescued from wedding-reception hell." [12] The Chicago Tribune stated that Brave Combo "plays Polish polkas and waltzes, German polkas, Czech drinking songs and conjunto and tejano tunes, or 'Mexican polkas'...