That was the early 1950s, just in the wake of Frankie Yankovic's having made the Slovenian style of polka one of the most popular forms of music in Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the Verne Meisner Band ...

The Polish American polka blended Polish, Czech, German, Slovenian and Mexican influences ... Eastern and Chicago. The Eastern style was rooted in the big-band tradition and practiced by large groups, ...

and his friend would play polka tunes, and, in 1967, his son and two cousins joined him and formed a polka band, starting with gigs at the former Slovenian ... Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of ...