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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you have a favorite polka band?
I know it sounds silly.
I do like some of Romy Gosz's stuff.
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Do you have a favorite polka band? (Original Post)
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Mar 2015
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kwassa
(23,340 posts)1. Flaco Jimenez
Ry Cooder works with him a lot. I saw them in concert together.
Sanity Claws
(21,839 posts)2. The dots
I like polka dots, especially white on navy blue.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)3. I like this one
A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)4. The Schmenge Brothers.
And yes, that's the late, great John Candy and Eugene Levy.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)5. Polka Dot Blues
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)6. Toolie Oolie Doolie
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)7. Angry White Boy Polka
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)8. Salsa Picante
rurallib
(62,373 posts)9. Got to go with "Whoopee" John Wifhart if only for the name
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)10. So you want Polka? Try this one
Luz y Sombras (Light and Shadows)
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)11. And this one is from my old (cough, cough) stomping grounds
La Grulla (The Crane) Inspired by the dance of the whooping cranes
greendog
(3,127 posts)12. Brave Combo!
"People Are Strange" (Doors cover)
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)13. That's like asking me if I have a favorite skin rash
or a favorite Republican congressman
or a favorite landfill.
I don't like polkas.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)14. The Bouncing Czechs
KMOD
(7,906 posts)15. yellow polka dot bikini
seems very creepy now
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[/youtube]Seriously, though, I wish I did have a favorite Polka band. I know it was part of the culture on my father's side of the family. My father I've heard even played the accordion.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)17. I like Molly B.
I caught her show one late night on RFD. Caught her show at a local hall about a year and a half ago. She does vocals, and plays the accordion, keyboard, and the saxophone
Here she is teaching the Polka "hop"