Six Polka Soundies (1940s)

Heat [music] [music] [music] up here. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> It was a hill and a nor a hill and a frump [music] and a hill and a smorggas. Y was a hing and a thing and a hing and a gas for a hick and a gas and a hust. Anyway, [music] [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Who the heck wrote this thing? [music] Listen, Gate. It was great back in 1880 when your old aunt Katie did the pa. People say in that day it was too too shocking when she showed her stocking in the pa by and by every guy wore a tie with polka dots when he'd sigh. Darling, what's your answer? In her polka doted gown, she would hate to turn him down. So she'd say, "Mr. Brown, you're quite a dancer. But before the dance was blue, she would whisper I love you while a band played the polka dot pa. Yes, you're old and Katie was a sassy looking lassie. Back in 1880 when a blow was a ball and her hop went wacky for [music] a dapper whip snapper when he said by cracky you're the sweetest girl of all in the old Masonic hall. When a blowout was a ball. When a joint was just a bone and a chisel worked [music] in stone and a ham was served with eggs and a wolf tum. Listen gate. It was great back in 1880 when your old Katie dear. People say in that day it was too shocking when she showed her stocking in the pa. By and by, every guy wore a tie with polka dots. When he'd tie, "Darling, what's your answer?" [music] In her polka- doted gown, she would hate to turn him down. So she'd say, "Mr. Brown, you're quite a dancer." But before the dance was through, she would whisper, "I love you." While a band played the pola pula [music] [music] in her polkadotted gown, she would hate to turn him down. So she'd say, "Mr. Brown, you're quite a dancer." But before the dance was through, [music] she would whisper, "I love you." While a band played the pola pa [music] [music] There's a baker. What a baker. Baking all day long. While [music] he's baking, he is making with a little song. And the people love to gather just to hear him sing a thing called the pumper nickel. It's a quaint little [music] ditty that he sings to the crowd. And it sounds kind of crazy, I suppose. Oh, we don't sing it pretty, but he does sing it loud. [music] And this is how the darling goes. Oh, by a pumper nickel for a nickel. By a pumpern nickel, by a pumpern nickel for a nickel today. Get it while I got it. [music] If you get it, then you won't regret it. Buy a pumpern nickel for a nickel today. With a smile that's sunny. He wants the world to know. He's never in the money, but always in the dough. By a pump for nickel for a nickel. Buy a pump for nickel. Buy a pump for nickel for a nickel today. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Buy a pumper nickel for a nickel. Buy a pumper nickel. Buy a pumper nickel for a nickel today. Get it while I got it. If you get it, then you won't regret it. Buy a pumper nickel for a nickel today. With a smile at Sunny, he wants the world to know. He's never in the money, but always in the door. Buy a pumper nickel for a nickel. Buy a pumper [music] nickel. Buy a pumper nickel for a nickel today. P U M P [music] E R N I C K E L. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Free. Na. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Time to begin the fiddle pork. poker. It's a special sort of music that they play when they begin the fiddle pa. You can put your walses and you swing away. [music] The boys in the back room stop to listen. They won't [music] deal a card until the dance is true. When they play [music and singing] the fiddle poker, it's the dance I always have with you. While [music and singing] glasses ring, you can hear the other dancers as they sing. Voices on high. Take the sound of merry dancers to the sky. Even the band gets excited and they have to leave the stand. The bull fiddle follows and the piccolo tags along in the middle. See the fiddle in the middle of the throng. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> You like to dance a fiddle pa. All the old folks gather around to watch the fun. And when they hear the fiddle pa, they remember how they danced when they were young. Bride eyes and ruby lips invite us while a spell of romance seems to fill the room. When they play the fiddle pa, even wall flowers bloom. [music]