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Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra made their own composition of "Beer Barrel Polka". [19] The song is a standard for the accordion rock band Those Darn Accordions, [20] who released a studio version in 1992 on their album Vongole Fisarmonica. [21] John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the polka for accordion and ensemble for RCA Thesaurus (1954). [22]
Under the title "Beer Barrel Polka", the tune hit No. 1 on the Hit Parade in the United States in 1939. [2] It sold over one million copies by 1943, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA . [ 3 ] After World War II he was known as the "Polka King" in the U.S., and did both big band and folk music arrangements with his orchestra.
Publishing house Shapiro Bernstein acquired the rights shortly before World War II and the polka, now the "Beer Barrel Polka" with the English lyrics "Roll out the barrel...", became the most popular song of the Allies in the West, although the original Czech lyrics have a very different meaning and do not speak about beer. After the war this ...
The name "Czech Philharmonic Orchestra" appeared for the first time in 1894, as the title of the orchestra of the Prague National Theatre. [1] It played its first concert under its current name on 4 January 1896 when Antonín Dvořák conducted his own compositions, but it did not become fully independent from the opera until 1901.
Municipal House in Prague, Czech Republic, serves as one of the main venues in the annual Prague Spring Festival.. The Prague Spring International Music Festival (Czech: Mezinárodní hudební festival Pražské jaro, commonly Czech: Pražské jaro, Prague Spring) is a classical music festival held every year in Prague, Czech Republic, with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles from ...
"Beer Barrel Polka" w. (Czech) Vasek Zeman (Eng) Lew Brown m. Jaromir Vejvoda "Believe It, Beloved" w. George Whiting & Nat Schwartz m. J. C. Johnson "Big John's Special" m. Horace Henderson "Blame It On My Youth" w. Edward Heyman m. Oscar Levant "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" w.m. Cole Porter "Blue Moon" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "The Bluebird ...
Polka is popular in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the "Beer Barrel Polka" is played during the seventh-inning stretch and halftime of Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks games. [17] Polka is also the official state dance of Wisconsin. [18] The United States Polka Association is a non-profit organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. [19]
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century (Czech: Výlety páně Broučkovy) is the complete title of Leoš Janáček’s fifth opera, based on two Svatopluk Čech novels, Pravý výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce (1888) (The True Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon) and Nový epochální výlet pana Broučka, tentokráte do XV. století (1889) ('‘The Epoch-making ...