It's Polka Time, Part 2!!

From that $9.99 stack of Goodwill 78s comes the above gem, which I'm happy to add to my sleeve collection. This is my first-ever posted scan (using my first-ever scanner), and I'm pleased with it. Being a ten-incher, the sleeve required two scannings, and I think I combined the images pretty well. The split is fairly invisible. I've always wanted to type "fairly invisible."

But you came for polkas, not talk of sleeves and scans. And, boy, do we have polkas! And 3/4 dances like obereks. Today's helpings date from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. To the polkas!

Click here to polka: Polka Time, Part 2

POLKALIST

ESKIMO KISS POLKA--Gene Wisniewski/Harmony Bells Orch. (Dana 2058)
OLD SCHNICKLEFRITZ--Same.
NICKY POLKA--Ted Powers Orch. (Dana 3136)
STOP TIME POLKA--Same.
PLAYHOUSE POLKA/TEATRALNA POLKA--Larry Chesky O. (Musico 103)
CINDERELLA OBEREK/KOPCIUSZEK OBEREK--Same.
WEDDING AT WITAK'S POLKA--Phil Gliszczynski O. (Decca 45103)
HERE AND THERE--Rheinlaender--Same.
MA AND PA--Polka--Ray Henry O. (Dana 3019)
UNION POLKA--Same.
SMALL VILLAGE--Oberek--Harmony Bells O. (Dana 3040)
OUR WAY POLKA--Same.


Lee

From The Daily: Bin Laden assisted in his own capture

Inside the Raid

"The commandos were confident that it was bin Laden, 54, who took a shot to the head and another in the chest, completing a mission that was pulled off with the precision of a finely tuned Swiss watch."

Ohhhh-kay. Thanks, bin Laden, for completing the mission.

Kind of weird, to say the least. Maybe he thought he was on Reality TV? I guess he simply lost his head.

As far as I know, The Daily is the only source thus crediting bin Laden.

Lee

You've already seen this, but....

This photo will be remembered as the occasion on which the "adorable" bar was raised several miles.

I'm with her, by the way. The royal wedding had me almost as thrilled as wet toast. Probably even more than that, had I watched it.


Lee

Sunday morning gospel: The Hester Family--Country Gospel

With such a jacket, I could pass this up? No way. It's as if someone traced (and colored in) a Reader's Digest boxed-set cover. And what a track listing.

Maybe the artists on this LP are the Hester Family, but I'm guessing not. For one thing, while the cover gives credit to said family, the label seems to give different credits per track. It's impossible to be sure. And if the Tops label had no idea whose tracks it was releasing, I'm not even going to try to guess. All I know is this: lots of good, typical bluegrass gospel here, with acceptable mono sound quality. 1959 is the year of release, but the tracks (whoever made them) could well be older.

(Thanks for all the valuable background info? Why, sure.)

If you like the gospel music of Carl Story and Bill Monroe, this is a must-download. I just made up that phrase. And who can resist a playlist which boasts Will My Doggie Understand?

Good stuff from the Tops label can, and did, happen. Sometimes.

(See Josh's comment.)

Click here to hear: The Hester Family--Country Gospel

OLD COUNTRY BAPTIZING
THE CROSSROADS
CALVARY'S CROSS
INSURANCE
HE KNEW JUST WHAT TO DO
ANGEL BAND
YOU GO TO YOUR CHURCH
MY LORD REMEMBERED ME
WILL MY DOGGIE UNDERSTAND
SHOUT AND SHINE
A PLACE UPON A MOUNTAIN
WHEN YOU KNEEL
WERE YOU THERE
BORN OF THE SPIRIT

(The Hester Family--Country Gospel. Tops L1675; 1959)

Lee