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Will Glahé (February 12, 1902 – November 21, 1989) [1] was a German accordionist, composer, and bandleader.. Glahé was born at Elberfeld, Germany.In the 1930s, he was, along with Heinz Munsonius and Albert Vossen, one of the most successful accordionists in Germany.
The Big Ben Banjo Band released a version of the song sung in English as a single in the UK in 1957, but it did not chart. [3]Li'l Wally released a version of the song as a single in 1957, but it did not chart.
In the 1967 film Late August at the Hotel Ozone a 78 rpm record of the polka is the last surviving piece of music. In Carl Davis 's 1990 score for 1916 epic silent drama Intolerance , Davis incorporates the Beer Barrel Polka at the "Strike" scene at 17:33, [ 34 ] [ 35 ] despite the scene taking place in 1916, a decade before the song was written.
"Too Fat Polka" is a novelty song by Ross MacLean and Arthur Richardson. The song is known for its recurrent chorus, "I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me."
A number of other versions were also recorded in 1948. The recording by Dick Haymes with The Song Spinners was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24439. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on May 28, 1948, and lasted 13 weeks on the chart, peaking at #9. [2]
Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music. [76] Dorothea Krook-Gilead, 69, Latvian-born literary scholar, translator and professor of English literature. [77] Oliver F. Naquin, 85, American navy rear admiral, pancreatic cancer. [78]
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Northern facade of the Hofbräuhaus am Platzl. A band performing at the Hofbräuhaus. "In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus" (German for "There's a Hofbräuhaus in Munich") is the title of the Hofbräuhaus-Lied ("Hofbräuhaus song") composed in 1935, which is today one of the best known drinking songs throughout the world.