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Popular song during Globe War II

Vocal

"Škoda lásky"
Memorial plaque of the author with the song'southward name in Czech, High german and English
Vocal
Language	Czech
English championship	"Beer Barrel Polka"
Written	1927 (music), 1934 (lyrics)
Composer(south)	Jaromír Vejvoda (from "Modřanská polka")
Lyricist(southward)	Václav Zeman

"Beer Barrel Polka", too known as "The Butt Polka" and "Roll Out the Butt", is a vocal which became popular worldwide during Globe State of war Ii.^{[ citation needed ]}

History [edit]

In 1927, the music for the polka was composed by the Czech musician Jaromír Vejvoda.^[1]

Eduard Ingriš wrote the offset arrangement of the piece, after Vejvoda came upward with the melody and sought Ingriš's help in refining it. At that time, it was played without lyrics as "Modřanská polka" ("Polka of Modřany").^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 1934, the first text for the polka was written past Václav Zeman – with the title "Škoda lásky"("Wasted Love").^[2]

The polka became famous around the world. In June 1939, "Beer Barrel Polka", as recorded past Will Glahé, was number one on the Hit Parade. This version was distributed by Shapiro Bernstein. Glahé's earlier 1934 recording sold many copies in its German language version Rosamunde.^{[ citation needed ]}

Information technology is possible the reason for the rapid spread was due to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Deutschland, and subsequent emigration of thousands of Czechs to other parts of the world, bringing this catchy tune with them.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The authors of the English lyrics were Lew Brownish and Wladimir Timm. Meanwhile, the song was recorded and played past many others such as The Andrews Sisters in 1939, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Bobby Vinton, Billie Holiday, and Joe Patek, who sold over a million copies of his album "Beer Barrel Polka".^[three]

During World State of war Two, versions in many other languages were created and the song was popular amid soldiers, regardless of their allegiances. On VE Twenty-four hours, 9 May 1945, Humphrey Lyttelton played information technology continuing on a handcart outside Buckingham Palace, a performance that could be heard in the BBC broadcast from the victory celebrations.^{[iv] [5]}

It was claimed many times that the song was written in the land where it had just become a hit. Its actual composer was not widely known until later the state of war.^{[ clarification needed ] [ citation needed ]}

Names in other languages [edit]

• Basque: Gora ta gora beti
• Chinese: 啤酒桶波尔卡/啤酒桶波爾卡
• Croatian: Rozamunda
• Czech (original): Škoda lásky
• Danish: Hvor er min Kone
• Dutch: Rosamunde (ook wel 'Rats, kuch en bonen')
• Finnish: Tonttujen joulupolkka, Böömiläinen polkka
• French: Frida oum Papa
• High german: Rosamunde
• Hungarian: Sej-haj Rozi
• Italian: Rosamunda
• Japanese: ビヤ樽ポルカ
• Latvian: Rozamunde
• Norwegian: Hvor er min kone
• Polish: Banda or My młodzi, my młodzi, nam bimber nie zaszkodzi.../Szkoda miłości
• Portuguese (Brazil): Barril de chope
• Russian: Розамунда
• Spanish: Polka del Barril, Polca de la Cerveza or Barrilito de Cerveza
• Swedish: Ut i naturen
• Ukrainian: Не вернуться роки мої молоді

Covers and homages [edit]

Music [edit]

• Bobby Vinton recorded "Beer Barrel Polka" in 1975. The song was released as the follow up unmarried to his multi-1000000 selling "My Tune of Love" and reached number 33 on the Billboard, number 45 on the Cashbox Top xl hit charts and number 51 in Australia.^[6] The success of the single, which was especially popular on jukeboxes, led to its inclusion on Vinton's Middle of Hearts album in 1975.
• The song became a signature song of well-known entertainer Liberace.
• A parodic version in 1940 is used as despedida (closure) for Uruguayan murga performers Línea Maginot.
• Elton John was known to play this detail vocal at the Northwood Hills Pub, forth with "Male monarch of the Road."
• Brave Philharmonic and Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra made their own compositions of "Beer Barrel Polka".
• The vocal is a standard for the accordion stone band Those Darn Accordions, who released a studio version in 1992 on their anthology Vongole Fisarmonica.
• The Wiggles sang this song on their 2005 album and video Sailing Around the Earth.
• John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the polka for piano accordion and ensemble for RCA Thesaurus (1954).

Sports [edit]

• Since the 1970s, information technology (usually the Frankie Yankovic version) has been played during the 7th inning stretch at Milwaukee Brewers baseball games, equally well every bit becoming one of the state of Wisconsin's unofficial state songs as it is also played at numerous University of Wisconsin sporting events, as well as Green Bay Packers home games, and Milwaukee Bucks basketball games, including later every home win.
• The 2016 Premiership winning Australian National Rugby League club Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks use the melody of Beer Barrel Polka for their victory song Upwards Upwards Cronulla.
• At San Jose Giants dwelling games, a batter from the opposing team is designated the "beer concoction." If the San Jose pitcher strikes out that batter, beer is half price in the beer just lines for the 15 minutes immediately following the strike out. The beer concoction promotion is in effect but for the first six innings of the game. The PA organisation plays Beer Butt Polka whenever the beer batter comes to the plate and later on every strike during the beer concoction'southward at-bat (through the first vi innings). After the 6th inning, the beer batter becomes the apple tree juice concoction and if he strikes out, fans get half-priced Martinelli's apple tree juice.
• Pro wrestler Crusher Lisowski used the song equally his entrance music, and would oft growl out a few bars of it during interviews.
• The High german football guild Bayern München utilize the tune of Beer Butt Polka for their vocal FC Bayern, lala lalala lala.^[vii]
• The Italian football game club Padova use the melody of Beer Barrel Polka for their goliardia song Dolce fiasco (Sweet flagon).

Plays and movies [edit]

• Arthur Miller'southward 1949 play Death of a Salesman features a recording of a young girl whistling this song.
• An instrumental version is featured in the 1941 film Meet John Doe.
• In the 1946 motion picture The Captive Heart, the vocal was sung by the POWs to drown out the camp speakers and by the repatriated troops as they arrive home.
• In 2005 the tune of "Beer Barrel Polka" became the main inspiration for the theme tune for Curiosity Comics's The Fantastic Four movie and tin be heard throughout.
• An instrumental version is featured in the 1985 Argentine moving-picture show Esperando la carroza.
• Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers plays a variation of this vocal in the movie At the Circus and A Nighttime in Casablanca.
• In the Disney pic The Due north Avenue Irregulars, a scene features a tape recorder playing The Andrews Sisters' version of the song while Patsy Kelly, Barbara Harris, and Virginia Capers sing along with it.
• In Carl Davis'due south 1990 score for 1916 epic silent drama Intolerance, Davis incorporates the Beer Butt Polka at the "Strike" scene at 17:33,^{[eight] [9]} despite the scene taking place in 1916, a decade before the vocal was written. It may have been meant to evoke a generic polka melody.

Television [edit]

• It is sung in the final scene of the Rumpole of the Bailey television episode, "Rumpole and the Culling Society" (1977).
• In an episode of Mr. Edible bean: The Animated Series, the Queen of the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland sings a portion of the vocal with a piano accompaniment.
• In an episode of The Critic, a trained bear plays the song for Jay Sherman, the critic, trying to stay a role of his show.
• It was played by Amanda McBroom as Eleanor Carlyle on piano at officers' club in 1000*A*S*H season 10 episode 1 ("That's Bear witness Biz") after she says that "Even Dvorak and Brahms wrote folk dances" to Major Winchester.
• In the Hogan's Heroes flavor 1 episode "Papa Schultz - Tiptop Lid, White Tie and Bomb Sights", Colonel Hogan convinces the Luftwaffe that he knows the details of the Norden Bombsight and has pro-Nazi leanings. To house upwards the subterfuge, Colonel Hogan describes a vacuum cleaner named "The Norden" in front of a wiretap with the prisoner crew singing "Beer Barrel Polka" loudly, interrupting lines of dialog. Commandant Klink believes the performance considering the diverse details not covered upwards past singing appear to describe a bombsight.
• In the Family Matters episode, "Chick-a-Boom", Steve Urkel creates a powder that explodes upwardly when the song "Roll Out the Barrel" is played.
• In the Frasier episode, "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name", Frasier Crane and his new friends sing "Roll Out the Barrel" in a British-mode pub as a frustrated, and bewildered Daphne Moon looks on.

Comics [edit]

• In the Daughter Genius comic and webcomic, the titular inventor Agatha Heterodyne creates a fleet of defensive robots from funfair wagons and 1 from a barrel; that robot plays the polka while wielding a pair of axes.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Greene, Victor. A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992, p. 131.
2. ^ Greene 1992, p. 131.
3. ^ "PATEK, JOSEPH | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Clan (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org . Retrieved 2016-10-ten .
4. ^ Gardiner, Juliet (2004). Wartime: Britain 1939-1945. Headline Book Publishing.
5. ^ "Humphrey Lyttelton: Obituary". The Independent. 25 April 2008. Retrieved 2018-07-30 .
6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Nautical chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 330. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
7. ^ Südkurve München Lieder
8. ^ "Intolerance | Kanopy". www.kanopy.com . Retrieved 2021-10-06 .
9. ^ Carl Davis / The Luxemburg Radio Symphony Orchestra – Intolerance (Original Pic Score) (1990, CD) , retrieved 2021-10-06

External links [edit]

• "MP3 file audio : part 1". Ingeb.org . Retrieved 2016-10-ten .
• "MP3 file audio : part 2". Ingeb.org . Retrieved 2016-ten-10 .
• "MP3 file audio : part 3". Ingeb.org . Retrieved 2016-10-10 .

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