| Author | Dolgan, Bob.
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| Title | America's polka king : the real story of Frankie Yankovic and his music / Bob Dolgan.
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| Published | Cleveland [Ohio] : Gray & Co., c2006.
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| Description | xi, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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| ISBN | 1-59851-026-6 |
| ISBN | 978-1-59851-026-3 |
| Bib. Note | Includes discography (p. [199]-232) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: "I hate Yankovic" -- Farewell to a king -- Princes of the neighborhood -- Bootlegger's son -- "I found the girl" -- Yankovic goes to war -- "Just because" -- The million-sellers -- "Nobody will ever match that sound" -- Going Hollywood -- "He fired me three times" -- "Hitler's home" -- June disappears -- Cupid strikes again -- Holzheimer's disease -- "The best persuader I ever saw" -- Sudden tragedy -- The first polka Grammy -- "Is there a chance for me?" -- Jimmy Sturr, Grammy champ -- Ray Budzilek, Cleveland hero -- Eddie Blazonczyk : from rock to polka -- Lynn Marie Rink, sexy accordionist -- Walter Ostanek, Canada's polka king -- "Yankovic liked hoods" -- Traveling the back roads -- Bobby goes to jail -- The final act -- Yankovic's legacy.
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| Subjects | Accordionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
Cleveland imprints -- 2006.
Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
Yankovic, Frank.
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| LC Card Number | 2006-31197 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 34 ZHA Y23D66
mq235637: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 142033] |
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