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Despite Blackmore's core creative role in the band, Deep Purple continued with the addition of former James Gang guitarist Tommy Bolin. [16] After just one album, Come Taste the Band, "Mark IV" played their final show on 15 March 1976, before breaking up officially on 19 July. [17] Bolin died of a heroin overdose that December. [18]
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 ...
Mark Capps (December 14, 1968 – January 5, 2023) was an American sound engineer and music producer from Nashville, Tennessee. [1] He shared the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2005 , 2006 , and 2007 for engineering albums by Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra .
The iconic “La Dee Da” polka musician Marshall Lackowski, better known as his stage name Big Daddy, died Saturday morning of congestive heart failure.
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 ]
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
Mark Edwin Seiler, the former president of RKO Pictures and Hemdale Films and CEO of Capella Films, died on July 7 of Parkinson’s disease. He was 75. While Seiler was at the helm of RKO, the ...
Torpey was born in Painesville, Ohio, on December 13, 1953. He first became interested in drumming as a child after seeing a drummer in a polka band performing at a local picnic. [3] In high school, Torpey immersed himself in all available music programs, including concert, orchestra, marching and stage bands.