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Here's a review written by Stephen W. Terrell back in 2002. For what Steve's
doing now, be sure to visit his blog:
<a href="http://steveterrell.blogspot.com/">http://steveterrell.blogspot.com/</a>.
<p> </p>
<!--msthemeseparator--><p align="center"><img src="_themes/polka/indhorsa.gif" width="600" height="10"></p>
<p>
Polka is a music that is both hopelessly corny -- but also irresistibly fun
beer-drinking, sausage-eating dance music.</p>
<p>Although your typical American �Bohemian� isn�t likely to be a
polka fan, the music sprang forth from Bohemia in the 1830s. This new type
of dance music quickly spread throughout Europe. By the end of the century
immigrants from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other nations brought
their various variations to the U.S.</p>
<p>On these shores, polka not only became a favorite in those ethnic
enclaves. It also spread to other cultures, most notably the Mexican
Americans in Texas, whose musicians quickly made polka a required part of
any dance band�s repertoire and even the Tohono O'odham Indian tribe in
southern Arizona, who formed accordion/saxophone/electric guitar-driven
�Waila� or �Chicken Scratch� bands. </p>
<p>Two recent compilation CDs, <i><b>American Polka: Old Tunes and New Sounds</b></i>
(Trikont Records, <a href="http://www.trikont.com">www.trikont.com</a>) and <i><b>Deeper
Polka: More Dance Music From The Midwest</b></i> (Smithsonian Folkways
Recordings) do a fine job of presenting a huge variety of polka styles.</p>
<p>Of the two, the American Polka collection (which is a German import)
features the most expansive polka vision, with decades-old tracks of Polish,
German and Mexican polkas along side with rock �n� roll polka madness.</p>
<p>I like the basic premise of this compilation. It�s respectful of the
American polka tradition, but not overly reverent.</p>
<p>It�s got selections from justified and ancient American polka masters
like Frankie Yankovic, Li�l Wally and Whoppee John Wilfahrt; polka rockers
like Brave Combo, The Polkaholics, Polkacide (described in the liner notes
as �the Motorhead of Polka�) and even Los Lobos (�Anselma�); and
even avant-garde polka from Elliott Sharpe.</p>
<p>There are traditional favorites like �Beer Barrel Polka� (performed
by Yankovic), rocked-out versions of traditional faves like �The
Happy Wanderer� (�Val-de-ri--Val-de-ra, Val-de-ri--Val-de ha ha ha ha ha
...� ) by the Polkaholics; as well as strange adaptations like Jimi
Hendrix�s �Purple Haze� (Brave Combo).</p>
<p>It�s full of novelty songs such as �You Can�t Teach the Japanese to
Polka� by The Happy Schnapps Combo (they are great, intelligent
hard-working people, but they just don�t have that polka
�riddum� this Wisconsin group argues).</p>
<p>And there�s the delightfully obscene entendre-laden �Wiener Dog
Polka� by San Francisco�s Polkacide. It�s a sharp contrast to the
mild, cornball humor of the following track �Tra-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay� by
Walt Solek & His Orchestra.</p>
<p>While American Polka has a wider variety, Deeper Polka is, well, deeper.
This is the type of polka you�d most likely hear at a Czech wedding
in eastern Nebraska or at a dance for Slovenian-Americans in Cleveland.</p>
<p>Probably the only song a non-Polka fanatic is likely to recognize on this
one is �In Heaven There is No Beer,� sung in three languages (English,
German and Norwegian) by The Goose Island Ramblers, who in the �60s and
�70s played what they called �Norwegian Polkabilly.� The
Wisconsin-based Ramblers featured a prominent fiddle, and, on one of their
songs on this album, Swiss-style yodeling.</p>
<p>Deeper Polka concentrates on seven acts hardly known outside of their
respective hometowns. These musicians represent a wide array of European
polka styles -- from nations you might not have realized had polka.</p>
<p>And by the way, even though there�s a band called Brian and the
Mississippi Valley Dutchmen, The Netherlands is not one of these countries.
The �Dutchman� style is actually a misnomer for �Deutschman� or
German. However, Brian Brueggen�s group (which is from Wisconsin, not
Mississippi) also plays some Czech tunes here.</p>
<p>There�s Stas Golonka, the singing meatcutter from Chicago who used to
play in Li�l Wally�s band; Jerry Grecvich of Pittsburgh, who plays a
Croatian style of polka featuring a mandolin-stringed instrument called the
tamburitza ; The Mark Vyhlidal Band of Nebraska who plays tuba-grounded
Czech or �Bohemian� music.</p>
<p>There�s Cleveland�s Nancy Hlad, an accordionist and modern disciple
of Frankie Yankovic�s Slovenian-style; and the string-based Finnish style
of Al Renko & Owen Tikkanen of Minneapolis<br>
Though the languages are different and the instrumentation varied, the
unifying factor in all these various styles is the polka attitude. Whether
it�s, Polish �honky� style, Norwegian polkabilly, or polka versions of
Hendrix songs, this is music to make you smile when you dance.</p>
<h3><!--mstheme--><font color="#666666">Also Recommended:<!--mstheme--></font></h3>
<p><i>
Tanz</i> by Dave Tarras & The Musiker Brothers and <i> Abe Schwartz The Klezmer
King</i>.
Like polka, klezmer is a lively ethnic dance music style brought to this
great nation of ours by European immigrants � klezmer being imported by
Eastern European Jews.
<p>These two recent archive releases from Sony Legacy are klezmer milestones.
Tanz, was recorded in 1955 but this remastered recording sounds fresh enough
to have been done last week.
With Tarras and Sam Musiker (who used to play with Gene Krupa�s) leading
the band with wild clarinets, this almost sounds like circus music that
could save the world.
<p>
There�s some overlap between these two records. Tarras was in Schwartz�s
band in the mid �20s.
The sound quality of the Schwartz compilation isn�t nearly as impressive
� but what do you want for stuff recorded between 1917 and 1935?
Schwartz (1881-1963) was a violinist and bandleader who emigrated to the
U.S. from Rumania.
Recording with several groups represented here � the Abe Schwartz
Orchestra, the Oriental Orchestra, and Boibriker Kappelle � and backing
several vocalists, including his daughter Sylvia, Schwartz laid the
foundation for klez as we know it today.
<p align="center"><font size="1">Copyright (c) by Stephen W. Terrell, reprinted
by permission</font></p>
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