Will Glahé

b. 12 Feb 1902, Elberfeld, Germany, d. 21 November 1989. This Western accordionist-band leader, together with his Musette Orchestra, got a big strike in america in 1939 with ‘Ale Barrel Polka’. The music was predicated on a genuine Czechoslovakian melody, ‘Skoda Lasky’ (‘Shed Like’), by Jaromir Vejvoda and Wladimir Timm, with an British lyric by Lew Dark brown. It sold more than a million copies for Glahe, who adopted it in america with other strikes such as for example ‘Sizzling Pretzels’, ‘W.P.A. Polka’, ‘Woodpecker’, ‘Bartender Polka’ and ‘You Can’t Become True, Dear’. It had been almost a decade before Glahe, along with his orchestra and chorus, produced the US graphs once again, with ‘Liechtensteiner Polka’ in 1957. The quantity also got some success in the united kingdom, alongside ‘The Crazy Otto Rag’, that was acknowledged to Will Glahe And His Sunlight Quintet.