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Word: ska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown little man who actually wrote Polka turned up in the news last week. He is a village orchestra leader named Jaromir Vejvoda, from the tiny Prague suburb of Vrane. In 1930, when he was 28, Vejvoda scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peripatetic Polka | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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