Track Listing

1. Just Because
2. My Favorite Polka
3. Trollie's Polka
4. Pretty Polly Polka
5. Three Yanks Polka
6. Blue Skirt Waltz
7. Yankovic's Polka
8. Charlie Was a Boxer
9. Ten Swedes
10. Jo Ann Waltz
11. Town Tap Polka
12. Pretty Music
13. Pete's Polka
14. Secretary Polka
15. Happy Hour Waltz
16. Bar Room Polka
17. Who'd Ya Like to Love You
18. Baskovic Polka
19. Mary Jo Waltz
20. Old Time Flavor
21. Flutophone Polka
22. Carol Ann Polka
23. Have Another Drink on Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40851 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

A decent re-release
From his 1940s heyday until the late 1960s, Frankie Yankovic was with Columbia records. Then, from 1968 to 1970, he recorded five albums with RCA. This CD contains 23 of the 44 tracks originally released on the first four of these five LPs. It's good stuff, and it's recent enough so that the sound is decent. The five tracks (3,7,13,16,22) from the first LP, Polka Variety, do not sound quite as good as the others, and two or three of the five seem to have been "enhanced" with a little extra reverb. RCA has chosen to include mostly the polkas, rather than the waltzes, from these vinyl classics. This is unfortunate, because in some ways the waltzes Frankie recorded during this "between-heydeys" period were actually superior to the polkas. I hope RCA will produce a Volume 2 of this CD, including all the remaining titles from these LPs, especially Beautiful Rose, St Bernard Waltz, LeeAnn Waltz, Those Were the Days, and Chip on Your Shoulder. Then, perhaps at a reduced price, there could be a Volume 3, an exact re-release of Frankie's fifth RCA vinyl, Polka Time, which for some reason is not represented on this CD at all. The current CD, which includes some very nice liner notes summarizing his life and 1998 funeral, makes me yearn for more, and yearn for the best.