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Showing posts with label polkas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polkas. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2009
New TDA Demos on MySpace
We are contemplating taking a shot at a Polka Grammy next year. (Yes, there is a Polka Grammy). I put up 4 new tunes on our MySpace page for you to check out and weigh in on. Please let us know what you think!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Last Chicken Dance
Anyone who has been around an accordion knows that sooner or later you are going to get up and do "The Chicken Dance". We recorded it as the "Duck Dance" on our 1st cassette release and performed it in Lithuania. People all the world seem to know the song and the dance that goes with it. We'd like to take a moment and honor the man who wrote the tune. Here's to you Bob. We know they are all doing the "Chicken Dance" behind the pearly gates tonight.
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2008, 5:36 p.m.
Bob Kames, of chicken dance fame, dies
Bob Kames, Milwaukee's own music man, died of prostate cancer today, according to his family.
Kames popularized an old-world tune called "Dance Little Bird" - better known as "The Chicken Dance." He long operated the Bob Kames Wonderful World of Music stores here in Milwaukee. He recorded more than 70 albums in his long career. Other professional work included a stint with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
His legal name remained Robert Kujawa, but he was known as Bob Kames, his professional name.
Another one of Kames' songs also made the big-time, said his son, Bob Kames, Jr. In 1949, Kames composed a pop tune in honor of his future wife, calling it, "You Are My One True Love." The tune was based on a Polish folk song. After being turned down by major labels, he recorded it himself, paying for the first 5,000 records himself.
It was picked up by London Records in England, becoming a huge hit.
"He wrote that for her," Bob Jr. said of his late mother, Edith Kames. "It was a million-seller. Lawrence Welk recorded it and Frankie Yankovic, and John and Sandra Steel, and others."
Funeral services are pending.
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2008, 5:36 p.m.
Bob Kames, of chicken dance fame, dies
Bob Kames, Milwaukee's own music man, died of prostate cancer today, according to his family.
Kames popularized an old-world tune called "Dance Little Bird" - better known as "The Chicken Dance." He long operated the Bob Kames Wonderful World of Music stores here in Milwaukee. He recorded more than 70 albums in his long career. Other professional work included a stint with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
His legal name remained Robert Kujawa, but he was known as Bob Kames, his professional name.
Another one of Kames' songs also made the big-time, said his son, Bob Kames, Jr. In 1949, Kames composed a pop tune in honor of his future wife, calling it, "You Are My One True Love." The tune was based on a Polish folk song. After being turned down by major labels, he recorded it himself, paying for the first 5,000 records himself.
It was picked up by London Records in England, becoming a huge hit.
"He wrote that for her," Bob Jr. said of his late mother, Edith Kames. "It was a million-seller. Lawrence Welk recorded it and Frankie Yankovic, and John and Sandra Steel, and others."
Funeral services are pending.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
It's TDA Polka Time!
Lots of folks have been asking how they can get all of TDA's polkas in one place. Yielding to popular demand, we've made an iMix on iTunes of all our polka recordings. Just click on this link and you can buy all our polkas at once. Of course, you'll need to open iTunes to view and purchase the list. What time is it? It's polka time!
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