Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
—have been released as singles (either in international markets or domestically). "Polka Your Eyes Out" and "Polkas on 45" were also the only polkas to appear on a greatest hits album while "Polka Face" and "Polkamania!" are the only polkas to have official videos released for them that are not clips of the original songs' music videos.
Harold Loeffelmacher, circa 1957. The Six Fat Dutchmen was an American polka band, formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States.The band was known mostly for playing the German-American (sometimes called "oom-pah") style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia.
The Chardon Polka Band is an American, Ohio-based, Cleveland-Style polka band.It was started by Jake Kouwe in 2003 when he recruited four other teenagers to form a polka band at Chardon High School, and the group was originally called "The Chardon High School Polka Band" and included an accordion, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, electric guitar, and tuba.
The Knewz is a polka band based in Buffalo, New York, which was started in 1990 by Mike Burka, Tom Picciano, and Tommy Wanderlich.The band plays many original songs, covers of country and rock songs, and also traditional Polish polkas, obereks, and waltzes.
Ruth Adams and the World's Most Dangerous Polka Band are a senior citizen polka duet who use a rotation of four different drummers. Adams founded the group in 1974, with Joe Hayden joining in 1996. They received national attention when they appeared on the short-lived Comedy Central series Let's Bowl. [1] The band in 2015, featuring Joe Hayden
I, Songs of the Polka King Vol. II (1997), and Brave Combo's Kick Ass Polkas (2000). Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra is one of the most popular polka bands in America, having won 18 of the 24 awards for Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. Polka Varieties was an hour-long television program of polka music originating from Cleveland, Ohio. The show ...
Brave Combo is a polka fusion band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist / keyboardist / accordionist Carl Finch , they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than thirty-five years. [ 2 ]