MINNESOTA POLKA: Elmer Scheid / Elsie’s Hoolerie / Decca 25657 / 1965

Описание: Elmer Scheid (1921-2012) of New Ulm, MN, was a concertina player whose first professional job came in the 1930s at age 13 with the John Fritsche Band (Fezz’s father). He also played with the Six Fat Dutchmen and the Babe Wagner Band, managing the latter for two years after Babe’s death in 1949. Scheid founded his own Hoolerie Band in 1951 and became one of the most popular groups in New Ulm (the “Polka Capital of the Nation”), performing for the next 50 years. The band recorded fifteen albums on the Epic, Decca, Polka City, Pleasant Peasant, Czech Records, Oxboro, and Soma labels. As the demand for “old-time” music declined in the 50s and 60s, Sheid worked as a custodian at 3M in New Ulm and later tended bar at Turner Hall, but traveled with the band on weekends. Fellow musician and concertina player Donnie Klossner said, “The Elmer Scheid band was so popular around here, we usually didn’t have to travel far. When we were younger, many polka band leaders like Johnny Gag and Jerry Schuft wanted to play the concertina like Elmer Scheid because he had such a nice, clean style.” Elmer Scheid was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in 1995.

[Elsie's Hoolerie, Elmer Scheid, Decca 25657, recorded 1965, matrix 114474-3]
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