Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slide Rule Symphony played "As Time Goes By," "Beer Barrel Polka," and "Deep in the Heart of Texas." Slide Rule Chaffee signalled the claps for "Deep in the Heart...
...asked to give a skating exhibition at an Army air base. "They gave me six encores," she recalls. "And I didn't have a sixth encore planned so I went to the microphone and said 'What will it be, boys?' They all shouted 'The Strip Polka.' Well, I asked for it. The music started and I made it up as I went along. The boys kept shouting at the right places. When they yelled 'Take it off! Take it off!' I lifted my skirt the tiniest bit. I'm an amateur...
...keep up their morale and to keep in step, the men sing on any march long enough to permit the completion of a piece. A trip to the Union for dinner or a march to one of the labs can be the occasion for a rendition of "Beer Barrel Polka...
Their show was a fast, 58-minute routine: Miss Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...
...like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled Banner...