Roll Out The Barrel

[BrandyD]

Lets try this fun little ditty! A couple of bad notes and timing - ignore those please!!!! Co-workers wanted to hear this song, figured Id share with you all also.



Brandy

 

[george garside]

Brandy, that was only the chorus of Roll out the barrel. For a first class example of the full tune try youtube Jimmy Shand missisipi dip. This is of Sir Jimmy and Jimmy junior playing roll out the barrel for the dance missisipi dip. Sir Jimmy is of course on the famous Shand Morino 3 row box and Jimmy jnr on a 5 row c system continental. 3rd accordion is piano box playing chords on both ends.

george

 

[BrandyD]

I don't have a copy of the rest of the song I only have the chorus.

I'll check out Sir Jimmy!!!!

 

[JIM D.]

Yes Brandy: there is an A B & C part to the tune. We play it as a polka and comical piece - as when we are asked for a classical tune we do just the same as this --


Although most think this tune is German Ive been told to this day that the tune originated in England as a Tavern Tune. Anyone ????

In the US in the 40s these girls did it the best --
And on the box --

 

[BrandyD]

JimD - thank you for that Marx video! I enjoyed that, what fun! Now I need to find the rest of the song, not just the chorus!

I remember Myron Floren and his accordion!

Brandy

 

[JIM D.]

Brandy; you can find it here -- http://spuscizna.org/music/index.html
:tup:

 

[BrandyD]

Brandy; you can find it here -- http://spuscizna.org/music/index.html
:tup:

Only the audio found there, no sheet music for this one.

Brandy

 

[JIM D.]

http://donquattrocchi.com/pdf/Beer Barrel Polka.pdf {} :b {}

 

[george garside]

interesting history of the tune on wikipedia. Apparently the melody was written in 1927 and the words in the 1930's.

george

 

[BrandyD]

JimD - thank you! I'll try this version! I have "borrowed" music from Mr Quattrocchi's page before. Don't know why I didn't look there before.

thank you,

Brandy

 

[AccordionUprising]

The Beer Barrel Polka is one of those stereotypical tunes that I used to cringe about but now make me want to know, Where did that come from? It has a remarkable story.

Victor Greenes great book has great details about its history, A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992,

I like that the original recording with slide guitar and saxophone was so popular that it arguably saved the US recording industry from total collapse during the Depression. Thats an influential song.

I wrote something about it: https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/all-hail-the-beer-barrel-polka/

Wikipedia has a list of covers. Id like to hear the Billie Holiday version! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Barrel_Polka

 

[Yffisch]

Cute sound!

 

[george garside]

to me its a cracking sing along dance tune that works well for quite a few dances in addition to the Beer Barrel Polka.


george

 

[Meerkatdawg]

I love this so much. The squelchy sounding brass bass is the best!

 

[jarvo]

Yes Brandy: there is an A B & C part to the tune. We play it as a polka and comical piece - as when we are asked for a classical tune we do just the same as this --


Although most think this tune is German Ive been told to this day that the tune originated in England as a Tavern Tune. Anyone ????

In the US in the 40s these girls did it the best --
And on the box --

Czech composer, Jaromír Vejvoda wrote themusic in 1927. In Germany they play the same tune and it is called Rosamunde.

The Old Time Music Hall tradition lyrics Roll out the Barrel were composed in England and added later.

 

[JerryPH]

http://donquattrocchi.com/pdf/Beer Barrel Polka.pdf {} :b {}

Is my sight reading that bad or is there still a part missing there? Isnthere a bit of a bass line that leads right back to the start of the song?

 

[JerryPH]

Yes Brandy: there is an A B & C part to the tune. We play it as a polka and comical piece - as when we are asked for a classical tune we do just the same as this --


Although most think this tune is German Ive been told to this day that the tune originated in England as a Tavern Tune. Anyone ????

In the US in the 40s these girls did it the best --
And on the box --

Czech composer, Jaromír Vejvoda wrote themusic in 1927. In Germany they play the same tune and it is called Rosamunde.

The Old Time Music Hall tradition lyrics Roll out the Barrel were composed in England and added later.[/quote]

My grand father told me that his father sang this song in the early 1930s. He was born and raised in Prague in the then Czechoslovakia. The original name was called Skoda Lasky or a rough tranlation is wasted love. Ive been listening to this song my entire life, maybe this is going to be the first song I record... It certainly is a fun piece with lots of memories for me.

 

[JerryPH]

LOL... I've heard of many kinds of beer, but never coconut beer! Sounds yummy!!

 

[EMan]

Brandy, if you(or anyone else) would like the Magnante arrangement from the 50's. PM me. I have the original sheet music. I'll scan it and send it to you.

Ed