Eddie Habat Polka Fun For Everyone LP 1962 Decca Stereo

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Hello vinyl junkies, I’m knee deep (elbow deep?) in grease and rusty or missing parts while restoring a classic car (and have another waiting in the wings if I EVER finish the current one) so I'll be slowly selling off the bulk of my record collection to finance these projects… therefore I'll be continuing to list hundreds of LPs over the next few months, so please keep checking back

Anyway, let's continue with this one by Eddie Habat and His Polka Band Polka Fun For Everyone released by Decca Records in 1962. (DL 74284 Stereo) Original black label with silver print, colorbar in center. M'F'R'D' by Decca Records Inc in fine print. LP comes with its original paper inner sleeve showing other Decca releases. 

Eddie Habat was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 16, 1926. Eddie led one of the outstanding Cleveland-based orchestras which achieved national prominence recording and performing Cleveland-style Slovenian Polkas and waltzes. In 1948, along with Kenny Bass and Pete Sokatch, he formed the Tunemixers who were given on WSRS a weekly half-hour radio show. A Decca recording contract followed and eight major hits were recorded, three of them original Eddie Habat compositions.

After the Tunemixers went their separate ways, Eddie formed a new group which also recorded for Decca Records for a period of thirteen years.

Many honors have been awarded to Eddie throughout the years including Ohio’s Polka King in 1949 and again in 1981, Penn-Ohio Polka Pals Man of the Year in 1985, Man of the Year of the Akron-Barberton-Canton Polka Club in 1990 and in 1991 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame. Go, Man, Go and Jack on St. Clair  both Eddie Habat hits, were winners in the Cleveland Polka Hall of Fame’s Greatest All-Time Cleveland-Style Polka Hits. Eddie was inducted into the International Polka Association's Hall Of Fame in 2009.

From the liner notes:

You'll rarely - if ever - see anyone doing the polka without smiling. Fun is as much a part of the polka as the captivating, toe-tapping beat of the music. Eddie Habat and his band are one of the most famous and popular polka groups in the country, and they're the top attraction at just about every Slovenian "home" (an auditorium where polka enthusiasts gather for the best music and dancing) in the Midwest.

Eddie himself is one of the best known accordionists and arrangers in polka music, and in this wonderful album you'll find a sampling of his skill and imagination as a composer. Eddie wrote the lively Hambone Polka, and the ever-popular Riverboat Polka. So if you like to have fun, if you like your music with a snappy dancing beat...here's Polka Fun For Everyone, with Eddie Habat and His Polka Band.

This LP contains the following tracks:

1. Riverboat Polka
2. Wayside Polka
3. Old Timers Polka
4. Keystone Polka
5. Lake Shore Polka
6. The Iron Range Polka
7. Hambone Polka
8. Incline Polka
9. Dancing Doll Polka
10. Strabane Polka
11. Five Points Polka
12. Little Theme-Polka

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Sorry if the cover looks washed out in the photo below…this is caused by a reflection from the camera flash… the colors are brighter and bolder in person.

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