Polka Power!
| "Polkas on 45" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D | |
| Released | February 28, 1984 |
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| Recorded | 1965-1983 |
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| Length | 4:23 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
| "Hooked on Polkas" | ||||
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| Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic | ||||
| from the album Dare to Be Stupid | ||||
| Released | June 18, 1985 (Japan only) | |||
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| Recorded | 1983-1984 | |||
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| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Scotti Brothers | |||
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| "Polka Party!" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Polka Party! | |
| Released | October 21, 1986 |
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| Recorded | 1984-1986 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:15 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
| Songwriter(s) | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| "The Hot Rocks Polka" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album UHF | |
| Released | July 18, 1989 |
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| Recorded | 1965-1978 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 4:50 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
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| "Polka Your Eyes Out" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Off the Deep End | |
| Released | April 1992 |
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| Recorded | 1989-1991 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:50 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
| "Bohemian Polka" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Alapalooza | |
| Released | October 5, 1993 |
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| Recorded | 1975 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:39 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
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| "The Alternative Polka" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Bad Hair Day | |
| Released | March 12, 1996 |
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| Recorded | 1993-1995 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 4:50 |
| Label | Scotti Brothers |
| "Polka Power!" | ||||
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| Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic | ||||
| from the album Running with Scissors | ||||
| Released | September 26, 1999 (Germany only) | |||
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| Recorded | 1996-1998 | |||
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| Length | 4:21 | |||
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| "Angry White Boy Polka" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Poodle Hat | |
| Released | May 20, 2003 |
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| Recorded | 1999-2002 |
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| Length | 5:04 |
| Label | Volcano |
| "Polkarama!" | |
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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| from the album Straight Outta Lynwood | |
| Released | September 24, 2006 |
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| Recorded | 2004-2005 |
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| Length | 4:17 |
| Label | Volcano |
Polka-style medleys of cover songs are a distinguishing part of American musician, satirist, parodist, and songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic's catalog. Twelve of his fourteen albums contain them; his self-titled debut and Even Worse omit them.
The medleys are composed of various popular songs, each one reinterpreted as a polka (generally an instrumentation of accordion, banjo, tuba, clarinet, and muted brass interspersed with sound effects) with the choruses or memorable lines of various songs juxtaposed for humorous effect. Yankovic has been known to say that converting these songs to polka was "...the way God intended." Yankovic said that the medleys were something he did "even before I had a record deal" in live performances, and that many of the songs are included due to not receiving a full parody version - "if there’s a song that I think is really ripe for parody but I just can’t think of a clever enough idea, sometimes it’ll end up in the polka medley." Regarding their popularity, Yankovic has said, "At this point, it's sort of mandatory for me to do a polka medley. Fans would be rioting in the streets, I think, if I didn't do a polka medley." Yankovic has always asked permission from every artist whose songs compose a medley due to royalties issues. He acknowledged some influence of Spike Jones in the medleys, such as the sound effects.
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