Roll Out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film (2-DVD)

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The owner was stubborn. Dad came away barrelless and angry, at what he considered a mean injustice. It wasn’t just the money. There was a lot of pride, principle at stake now. The rather flexible moral code of that time and area demanded that barrels must now be pinched. Greene, Victor. A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992, p. 131.

Pro wrestler Crusher Lisowski used the song as his entrance music, and would often growl out a few bars of it during interviews. [ citation needed] The barrel store owner had probably got to hear about this over the grapevine. I’d suspect that both he and Dad enjoyed the chat they had. Both East enders: with a weakness for this sort of situation.Printed sources: - Breathnach ( Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. V), 1999; No. 111, p. 57. Harker ( 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 58, p. 18. O’Malley ( Luke O’Malley’s Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 41, p. 21. Soon afterwards, two elderly and muttering watchmen emerged. Using the shielded and pretty useless torches of the blitz era. They weren’t alone. Bob was with them. The authors of the English lyrics were Lew Brown and Wladimir Timm. Meanwhile, the song was recorded and played by many others such as The Andrews Sisters in 1939, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Bobby Vinton, Billie Holiday, and Joe Patek, who sold over a million copies of his album "Beer Barrel Polka". [5] In the 2022 Dreamworks animated film, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Papa Bear of the "Three Bears Crime Family" gives another character, Mama Luna, the "piano treatment" which involves him playing her piano which she was thrown into while he sings a jaunty rendition of this song. [ citation needed]

An instrumental version is featured in the 1985 Argentine film Esperando la carroza. [ citation needed] It was some time after this that my Dad decided to organize street A.R.P. patrols. The phrases ‘bolting horses’ and ‘stable door’ do spring to mind perhaps. But then, during those hectic days, the fact that you’d been bombed once was no guarantee that you couldn’t be again. The Wiggles sang this song on their 2005 album and video Sailing Around the World. [ citation needed]

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In an episode of The Critic, a trained bear plays the song for Jay Sherman, the critic, trying to stay a part of his show. [ citation needed] In the Frasier episode, "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name", Frasier Crane and his new friends sing "Roll Out the Barrel" in a British-style pub as a frustrated, and bewildered Daphne Moon looks on. [ citation needed] Elton John was known to play this particular song at the Northwood Hills Pub, along with " King of the Road." [ citation needed] PATEK, JOSEPH | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org . Retrieved 2016-10-10. Aged seventeen, fed-up with starving, he’d enlisted. His timing a shade unfortunate. Namely, June 1914. Found himself in a remote outpost called Exeter, Private Copley, James: 6068 Devon Rgt. For a few weeks, wore the flash red tunic and spiked helmet of that era.

As a landlord you spend many hours rolling those metal beer containers around your cellar but have you ever stopped to think about why they are that shape and size. The standard size for cask beer is a firkin, meaning forth of a barrel ( middle dutch) and contains 9 gallons. The next size is a kilderkin, meaning half a barrel ( middle dutch) and contains 18 gallons. Next up is a barrel which is 36 gallons and then you have a hogshead, (originally called an oxhead due to the fact that they were branded with the sign of an ox head) and these contain 54 gallons. Two sizes that you never see in pubs are a butt which is two hogsheads, 108 gallons and a tun which is two butts or 216 gallons. In fact some brewers have gone the other way into smaller containers and send their beer out in a pin which is half a firkin or 4.5 gallons. These can also be made of plastic and if they are they are called polypins. Dad and Bill descended the pile soon after the barrel did, appalled by the ear-splitting din it created. Reached the bottom and hastily parted company. Bill rapidly towards his own house, dad, who hadn’t been able to run for over twenty years forced to lie doggo amid bombed ruins. In 2005 the tune of "Beer Barrel Polka" became the main inspiration for the theme tune for Marvel Comics's The Fantastic Four movie and can be heard throughout. [ citation needed]As I said dad could be persuasive. In the end, he even managed to enlist this reluctant confederate. And so, the early hours of a freezing cold morning saw these two stealthily scaling the Everest of drums. Once they’d gone, Dad got one of the mad ideas he sometimes did. “Hey! Bet old Bill’s indoors now having kittens. Yeah! Yeah, I'll burst in on him. Gee him up a bit.” There are three main methods of dispensing beer, flat stillage via a cask tap, upright stillage via a metal spear or a plastic floating widget. Telling us later, Dad swore that poor Bill rose vertically in the air, whinnying in pure terror. Bashed his head on the ceiling, and came down, his face ashen. The polka became famous around the world. In June 1939, "Beer Barrel Polka", as recorded by Will Glahé, was number one on the Hit Parade. This version was distributed by Shapiro Bernstein. Glahé's earlier 1934 recording sold many copies in its German version Rosamunde. [ citation needed]

https://www.ipscuba.net/archivo-espacios/nuestra-america/memoria/voces-mexicanas-triunfan-en-la-habana-entre-1938-y-1958/John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the polka for accordion and ensemble for RCA Thesaurus (1954). [ citation needed] A parodic version in 1940 is used as despedida (closure) for Uruguayan murga performers Línea Maginot. [ citation needed] It is possible the reason for the rapid spread was due to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, and subsequent emigration of thousands of Czechs to other parts of the world, bringing this catchy tune with them. [ citation needed]