Bruno’s singing career began early. He learned to sing the “Two Bucks Polka” at the age of five as he heard the song played on the Oskierko Polka Show over WJOB Radio in Hammond, Indiana. During his grammar schools days he tried to play the accordion. He did not care for this instrument and his interest switched to the trumpet. He attended the Roseland Conservatory of Music and got instruction from a private…
Walt Groller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on February 12, 1931. His parents were Austrian immigrants. At four years of age, they bought him a small accordion. He was a self taught musician who picked up the Austrian folk songs his mother sang to him. After chores on the small family farm were done, he would practice many hours everyday. He was hired for his first engagement at age twelve,…
Born in Jaslo, Poland in 1911, Bruno Z. Zielinski came to this country with his mother, Anna, as a one- year-old boy. They joined his father Zygmunt, who had earlier settled in Chicago’s neighborhood of Bridgeport. After elementary education at St. Barbara Parish Catholic School, he attended Harrison High School graduating in 1926. Tremendously fascinated by the radio as a new media of communication and entertainment, in 1930 Bruno started spinning polka records…
The life of Pat Watters spanned a time period that included driving mules across Texas to jet trips to Europe. Music provided a living and a career for him and a brighter life for those he touched. Born in Dallas County, Texas in 1902, his childhood was spent in frequent moves between ranching and operating small businesses. After ninth grade, he went to Wyoming to dig silos. He then attended business school in…
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