Episode 400: Polka & Beer at Oktoberfest

The connection between drinking beer and dancing the polka crosses many cultures. In Czechoslovakia in 1927, a piece was written whose lyrics gave it the title "Skoda Lasky" which translates to “wasted love.” The Germans wrote their own lyrics to the same tune and named it “Rosamunde”. Finally in England, the tune became the "Beer Barrel Polka" cementing the notion that beer and polka are universally linked, and loved.

Ein Prosit
  Karl Barthel and his Bavarian Brass Band
Rosamunde
  Jaromir Vejvoda
  Mnozil Brass
Durch Die Schöner Heimat
  Die Original Siegerländer Musikanten
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
  Johann Strauss, arr. Alfred Reed
  The Washington Winds, Edward Petersen
Thunder and Lightning Polka
  Johann Strauss, arr. Alfred Reed
  The Washington Winds, Edward Petersen
Polka excentrique from “Third Suite for Band”
  Alfred Reed
  TAD Wind Symphony, Takayoshi "Tad" Suzuki
Souvenir Polka
  Puffhold
  Empire Brass Quintet & Friends
Liebling's Polka
  Faust
  Empire Brass Quintet & Friends
Bergvagabunden
  German Hofmann Und Seine Original
  Ochsendfurter Blasmusik
Polka from "Schwanda the Bagpiper”
  Jaromir Weinberger
  Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble,
  Rodney Holmes
Warm Beer and Cricket from
​“Heritage Suite (What Hope Saw)”
  Nigel Clarke
  Middle Tennessee State Wind Ensemble, Reed Thomas
Beim Starkbier
  Karl Edelmann
  Königlich Bayrische Blasmusik
Polka from Solitaire
  Malcolm Arnold
  US Army Field Band, Colonel Finley R. Hamilton
Emperor Waltz Op. 437
  Johann Strauss
  US Army Band, Colonel Gary F. Lamb
Zillertaler Hochzeitsmarsch
  German Hofmann und seine Ochsenfurter Blasmusik
In München Steht Ein Hofbräuhaus
  Martl Felbinger's Oberländer Bayernkapelle