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Anyone for more Beatles bashing?
Anyone for more Beatles bashing?
Anyone for more Beatles bashing?
Ooooh boy, me and some pals got in trouble for that over at the Station Wagon Forums.
My thoughts exactly.....but if it finds it's way on the radio, I don't change the station.Reminds me of junior high :eeek:
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My thoughts exactly.....but if it finds it's way on the radio, I don't change the station.
WTH can you gt in trouble at a station wagon forum for Beatles bashing? I mean, the Beatles and station wagons don't mix.
No....but here's some more Sinatra bashing. [video=youtube;H42Edy587hc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H42Edy587hc[/video] Absolutley the WORST Christmas song ever. Maybe even the WORST song pressed to vinyl, period.Anyone for more Beatles bashing?
This guy at work got offended yesterday because I was knocking the Beatles. So I had to turn the Sinatra CD I had in the radio in the car to rub salt in the wound.
Every day, I go to break at work at 5 O'Clock, so I can catch the Barn Show with Uncle Bill on 95.3 WXRO from Beaver Dam. It's very focused on the farming area around Columbus, where I grew up. The polkas are great and they're always talkin' about folks I know from the area, making me nostalgiac.
Every Sunday morning, 104.9 out of Wisconsin Dells has the polkas on, and 'Flashback Country' in the evenings. Gotta love it!
Unpopular outside the German/Polish Wisconsin farming communities where I live, I guess this'd be a unpopular music opinion. I LOVE POLKA!
But I'm also a huge music nerd and have to have complete discographies and know the exact year stuff came out...etc. Dork. lol
All the best people own discographies. When it really gets out of control is when you read them in the bathroom.
Some years ago I came across airchecks of a tiny local station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 1936 -- where one of the feature attractions was a polka band led by one Anthony Witkowski, stars of "The Polish-American Hour." The idea of a live polka band on the air in 1930s Brooklyn might clash with a lot of latter-day ideas about Eastern urban tastes then, but there were plenty of ethnic enclaves where you'd come across such.
Witkowski billed himself modestly as "the king of Polish-American dance music," but having listened to the broadcasts, I think he was exaggerating just a bit.
Here in New England, there is no pile of thrift-store 78s that won't include at least a few Frankie Yankovic records. He was *very* popular in the postwar era.
What's not to love?
I do tend to prefer Pennsylvania style (Ignacy Podgorsky's Red Raven Orch) to New Ulm style (Six Fat Dutchmen), and even to Cleveland Style, as epitomized by Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks.
I suppost that that would qualify as an unpopular opinion, at least in my home town, as I was raised in Cleveland, and danced to the music of all of the great bands at our Sokol club in the dim dead days of my youth. Hank Haller, Johnny Pecon, Jerry Mazenec, Yankovic, Johnny Vadnal, Walt Ostanek, and so many others whose names now escape me.
Of a sunday after noon, I'd anlxiously await the end of the Gene Carrol show, a local amatuer hour hosted by the "Gene" of "Gene and Glen (and Jake and Lena)" fame, for those welcome words from our own Paul Wilcox:
"From Americas Polka Capital of Cleveland Ohio, this is Polka Varieties!"