That was the early 1950s, just in the wake of Frankie Yankovic's having made the Slovenian style of polka one of the most popular forms of music in Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the Verne Meisner Band ...

and his friend would play polka tunes ... Frankie Yankovic. “I was contacted by Frankie to come to Nashville and record with him,” said Tady, who also was a longtime music teacher in the ...