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“Whoopee” John Wilfahrt Saturday Waltz

Hello Joe Polka

 

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A: “Whoopee” John Wilfahrt & Band

Saturday Waltz

Decca “Star” Record (91790) 45003 A

 

B: Hello Joe Polka

(91787) 45003 B

 

John Anthony Wilfahrt, (May 11, 1893 – June 15, 1961was a professional polka musician who recorded with Vocalion and from 1934, Decca. He went by the moniker "Whoopee John." Wilfahrt was born in New Ulm, Minnesota and got his start playing the concertina at local gatherings and concerts in and around his community. In the 1920s Whoopee John and his band relocated to Saint Paul, Minnesota where they became regulars at live shows and on the radio. Wilfahrt first began recording commercially in the 1920s and would sign with the newly formed U.S. division of Decca Records in 1934 as the label's second act. (The first act signed to the label being Bing Crosby.) "Whoopee John Wilfahrt and his band enjoyed popularity through the 1940s and 50s on the polka circuit. Over the course of his professional career Wilfahrt would record nearly 1,000 songs, some of the most popular being “Mariechen Waltz” and “Clarinet Polka.”