RARE \"Beer Barrel Polka\" Jaromír Vejvoda Addressed Envelope For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Beer Barrel Polka" Jaromír Vejvoda Addressed Envelope. 

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Jaromír

Vejvoda (28 March 1902 –

13 November 1988) was a Czech composer and the author of the "Beer Barrel

Polka". Vejvoda was born and died in Zbraslav. He learned to play the fiddle and flugelhorn in a band led by his father. Later he played

these instruments in a military band. He started to compose in the 1920s while

he worked as a bartender in a pub owned by his father-in-law. In 1929 he wrote

the Modřanská polka named after Modřany, a suburb of Prague where

it was played the first time. This catchy tune became a hit and allowed Vejvoda

to pursue music as a full-time professional. It was published in 1934 with

lyrics Škoda lásky, kterou jsem tobě Bernstein acquired

the rights shortly before World War II and the polka, now the "Beer Barrel Polka" with the English lyrics "Roll out

the barrel...", became the most popular song of the Allies in the West,

although the original Czech lyrics have a very different meaning and do not

speak about beer. After the war this polka became popular around the world,

in German-speaking countries

as "Rosamunde". Vejvoda wrote many other hits, such as Kdyby

ty muziky nebyly ("If those bands did not exist") and Já

ráda tancuju ("I love to dance") but none of them became

popular outside of the Czech and German speaking countries. Vejvoda had three

sons: Jaromír, Jiří and Josef. Josef continues the family tradition of being musician,

composer and bandleader. His daughter Zuzana is a musical actress.