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

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John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the polka for accordion and ensemble for RCA Thesaurus (1954). [ citation needed] 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]

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] A parodic version in 1940 is used as despedida (closure) for Uruguayan murga performers Línea Maginot. [ citation needed] German accordionist Will Glahe recorded a popular cover titled "Rosamunde" in 1936; three years later, it topped the US Hit Parade as "Beer Barrel Polka" and became a popular jukebox spin throughout World War II, especially after it was covered by the Andrews Sisters. The vocal trio sang English lyrics from Lew Brown (" Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)") and Wladimir Timm about a garden party that livens up when the beer starts flowing. Their version was a #4 hit and spawned a polka craze throughout the country. In the Hogan's Heroes season 1 episode "Papa Schultz - Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sights", Colonel Hogan convinces the Luftwaffe that he knows the details of the Norden Bombsight and has pro-Nazi leanings. To firm up the subterfuge, Colonel Hogan describes a vacuum cleaner named "The Norden" in front of a wiretap with the prisoner crew singing "Beer Barrel Polka" loudly, interrupting lines of dialog. Commandant Klink believes the performance because the various details not covered up by singing appear to describe a bombsight. [ citation needed]Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers plays a variation of this song in the 1939 movie At the Circus and later reprised it in 1946’s A Night in Casablanca. [ citation needed] The 2016 Premiership winning Australian National Rugby League club Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks use the tune of Beer Barrel Polka for their victory song Up Up Cronulla. [ 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] The films in Roll Out The Barrel are fascinating for the cultural change – and continuity - they show. But they're perhaps even more fascinating because of what they are striving to depict. Whatever its original purpose may have been – commercial, propagandist, ethnographic or artistic – each, in its own way, represents a kind of national self-portrait: clumsy/polished/cynical/naïve, ultimately hopeless, attempts to define who 'we', the British, are. At San Jose Giants home games, a batter from the opposing team is designated the "beer batter." If the San Jose pitcher strikes out that batter, beer is half price in the beer only lines for the 15 minutes immediately following the strike out. The beer batter promotion is in effect only for the first six innings of the game. The PA system plays Beer Barrel Polka whenever the beer batter comes to the plate and after every strike during the beer batter's at-bat (through the first six innings). After the sixth inning, the beer batter becomes the apple juice batter and if he strikes out, fans get half-priced Martinelli's apple juice. [ citation needed] Greene, Victor. A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. University of California Press, 1992, p. 131.

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. An instrumental version is featured in the 1985 Argentine film Esperando la carroza. [ citation needed]

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] Traditionally flat stillage is the preferred method as already mentioned, the design of the barrel facilitates the best removal of the yeast sediment. However, in cellars where space is a premium upright stillage may be adopted as an alternative method. The metal spear is designed to be inserted into the barrel via the keystone and lowered to the bottom then slightly raised to lie above the sediment level, however it is not always easy to determine this and coupled with the fact that you cannot sample the beer prior to connecting to the beer lines means you can run the risk of getting cloudy beer into the lines. The second method using the floating widget alleviates this problem as the widget is designed to float on the top of the beer with its outlet just under the surface. However, it brings its own issues as you are always taking beer from the top where it is starting to oxidise and you can pull air into your beer lines causing the hand pulls to become “spongy” when operated. As they say sometimes needs must and with careful use the two upright dispense methods can be used successfully in smaller cellars.Beer Barrel Polka", originally in Czech " Škoda lásky", also known as " The Barrel Polka", " Roll Out the Barrel", or " Rosamunde", is a 1927 polka composed by Czech musician Jaromír Vejvoda. [1] Lyrics were added in 1934, subsequently gaining worldwide popularity during World War II as a drinking song. [2] History [ edit ]

Koten, Marek (2022-07-19). "The Czech Folk Song Known All Around the World". 3 Seas Europe . Retrieved 2022-09-23. The Italian football club Padova use the tune of Beer Barrel Polka for their goliardia song Dolce fiasco ( Sweet flagon). [ citation needed] He’d turned out to be a good sport about it after all. Those drums remained in place for five more years. Never used. No more bombs ever fell directly upon the remaining half of the street. I don’t know what became of them afterwards. Most likely, they were simply junked, along with most other redundant wartime stuff. Gas masks; stirrup pumps; steel helmets. It all went. In the euphoria that followed the war being over at last, nobody wanted reminders of it hanging around.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. 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. 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.