25--Count 'em--25 polka hits from all your favorite performers! Myron Floren! Frankie Yankovic! Captain Stubby & the Buccaneers! "Whoopee" John Wilfarht! Dick Rodgers and His T. V. Recording Orchestra! OK, forget that last one. Anyway, this is Baby's First K-Tel album, and side one was pretty cool, 12 actual songs fit on one entire side--but side 2 they start fading out of songs to meet their quota of 25 hits. And they made the heinous decision to fade out of "Who Stole the Kishka? AND "In Heaven There is No Beer"!
"Too Fat Polka" is a keeper, "I don't want her you can have her, she's too fat for meeeee..."
25 Polka Greats
See the track list below, I'm WAY TOO LAZY to type it all out.
9 comments:
This looks great, but I'm getting a fatal expansion error. I've downloaded it twice.
Try it again, I put it on Sharebee this time....sorry for the problems....
What? No Walter Ostanek, Canada's King of Polka? Tsk,
Yowp
Oh, I have this album and digitized it years ago...if anything perfectly fits the theme of your site, this is it.
I'm grabbing a copy since your work is much better than mine...thanks for all the work you do, preserving the cr@p from my childhood!
"Whoopee John Wilfarht", oh how that cracked me up back when....
I am laughing like a chimpanzee right now, my work here is better than yours??? Yoiks.
Hearing to this record I'm feeling an inexplicable Deutschland-ostalgy... "Inexplicable", because there is absolutely no chance to hear these tunes anywhere in Germany. So, I'm tendering my apologies to all Germans, but this is an association that I can't help it...
Great orchestrations, by the way, in almost all of these tunes!
Paul si sinorina from Czech rep.27.1.10 LP K-Tel Polka, I come again to this LP, after two year . I'm interestig by the Polka, and K-Tel records I have with rock music from 1972-1974. There's interesting company, K-Tel. I love their cover on LP's. K-Tel Polka is unusual project to Mr.Yankovic's birthday. Many steps to get knowlewdges about the polka I found on :Polka 24/7, and radiotime.com, there are another four stations. Good Luck .
Coming from Cleveland, the home of Frankie Yankovic and his Sunday program on WEWS entitled "Polka Varieties" - I can tell you that Frankie was the KING of Polka music in America in the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunatly, this album doesn't include his "Who Stole the Kishka".
I think that the same 'pennsylvania polka' used in the movie 'Groundhog's Day'
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