Leaving for the Service Polka
Cuca J-1201 · Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Artist
- Alvin Styczynski
- Title
- Leaving for the Service Polka
- Release
- Leaving for the Service Polka / Wishing Well Waltz
- Label
- Cuca # J-1201
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Genre
- Polka · Polka
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Another Wisconsin-based polka artist, he released the Vietnam War-era song "Leaving for the Service Polka" (Cuca # J-1201), sung in Polish. Also featured in:
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Polka songs
Another Wisconsin-based polka artist, he released the Vietnam War-era song "Leaving for the Service Polka" (Cuca # J-1201), sung in Polish.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Alvin Styczynski (1935-2023) was a Pulaski, Wisconsin concertina player and polka bandleader who led his polka band for some seventy years, hosted a WBAY-TV polka show and long-running radio slots, received the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award, and was known for 'Pulaski Is a Polka Town'. He died in March 2023 at age 87. [Source: WBAY; Green Bay Press-Gazette]