If It Weren't For Polka Music, I'd Go Crazy

Fred Ziwich and His International Sound Machine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00000IJ1H
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #616,223 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We've Come To Play Our Songs For You

2. If It Weren't For Polka Music, I'd Go Crazy

3. Dreaning Of My Homeland

4. Festive Fred's Favorite Polka

5. With A Hey And A Hi And A Ho Ho Ho

6. The Dreaming Accordian

7. Take Me Baby - North,South,East,West

8. Spiel Uns Eins!

9. A Waltz For Aunt Lil

10. Hallo, Everybody!

11. Was Willst du Haben - What Will You Have, Dear

12. Los Dos

13. When I Hear Music Play

14. Balash's Polka

15. My Way

16. Katjusha

17. Slovenian Old Favorites Medley

18. Honky Tonk

19. Good Morning Polka

20. Hi-Fi Polka

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fred Ziwich's personal preferences, energetically performed, September 28, 1999

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Bill Smythe (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If It Weren't For Polka Music, I'd Go Crazy (Audio CD)

This is the only Ziwich CD I have seen that is not "thematic" -- a tribute to X or Y, or the world's best-known polkas or waltzes, etc. It is simply a collection of numbers the artist felt like recording. Because it consists of his own choices, he really gets into it and pulls out all the stops. Would he play Cleveland style (string bass) or German (tuba)? The answer: whichever he feels like! The style varies all over the map. There are polkas, waltzes, even a jazz number. Not the kind of jazz that makes us "real" music lovers ask "Where's one?" (the first beat of the measure) and "where's DO?" (the base tone of the scale), but something that sounds good and that we can understand. It's all great. Fred Ziwich has outdone himself here.