Pennsylvania Polka: Frank Yankovic
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February 3, 2018 at 6:35 pm
weird al
February 3, 2018 at 7:03 pm
Spaceman,
The Polka King who was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during his long career.
February 3, 2018 at 11:13 pm
I like him – don’t know enough about Polka to realize his is Slovenian based. Rollicking dance tunes. Accordions are pretty cool.
February 3, 2018 at 11:22 pm
Spaceman,
I agree about accordions. I think they were, for a while, a maligned instrument. My friend, a musician, almost choked when I said I liked the accordion.
I don’t know much about polka either.
February 4, 2018 at 11:05 am
Perhaps the Lawrence Welk Show is the first thing that jumps in people’s mind accordion is mentioned; admittedly a old fashioned, squeaky clean show. It’s on public TV here – I watch it occasionally. Accordions have been around forever – used in all kinds of music besides polka type music – cajun, texmex, Canadian jigs and reels
February 4, 2018 at 11:31 am
Spaceman,
I do remember that accordion player. For some reason in my mind’s eye he is wearing a checked jacket.
We were not a Lawrence Welk watching family. One of the strangest videos from that show needs to be watched. It is even introduced by the accordion player.
February 4, 2018 at 7:04 pm
Amazing – I’d never thunk this one in a million years. Outside guess this was a Easy Rider tune – but not fa high confidence level. Could look it up if I cared to. Fair job of it. And the people on LW are all so perfect. Homecoming kings and queens. My parents did watch – I thought everybody in America did. My dad was a Pennsylvanian – so he might have liked polka. Married a Mississippi girl while he serving in the Army Air corps.
February 4, 2018 at 10:59 pm
Spaceman,
This makes me laugh every time I hear the introduction then the song. Lawrence had no idea what this was about.
February 4, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Here’s the guys that wrote it (not the polka):
February 4, 2018 at 10:50 pm
Mark,
Thanks for the posting. This is the only song of theirs I know, and it is a good one.
February 4, 2018 at 11:31 pm
10-4 Mark.
February 4, 2018 at 9:26 pm
Seeing them, I recollect an earlier tale. These guys claimed the song doesn’t have anything to do with smoking dope
February 4, 2018 at 10:46 pm
Spaceman,
How did they define toke? I only know it means taking a puff of grass from a pipe or cigarette. That is the only way I have ever heard it used.
Tom Shipley explained: “When we wrote ‘One Toke Over the Line,’ I think we were one toke over the line. I considered marijuana a sort of a sacrament… If you listen to the lyrics of that song, ‘one toke’ was just a metaphor. It’s a song about excess. Too much of anything will probably kill you.”
February 4, 2018 at 9:34 pm
And some country western from Easy Rider.
February 4, 2018 at 10:53 pm
Spaceman,
I was in Africa when Easy Rider was released, but I knew all the music as a friend of mine was sent the soundtrack. He had no way to play it so I got it. This song I remember well.
February 4, 2018 at 11:30 pm
Yep – had the album. Know all the songs pretty much by heart. I’ve heard that several are good dope smoking tunes.
February 5, 2018 at 12:06 am
Spaceman,
I played it quite a lot as I hadn’t many cassettes so I also learned all the words to the songs. I have heard the same.