[a fool in paradise]

When you call polka, "tejano", it get accolades.

[isthisnickcool]

[rahbert]

My favorite band was “Bob Blecha and the Bouncing Czechs”

[the invisib1e hand]

just don't mess with the polka-dots.

***

Wonder if Weird Al will protest?

[a fool in paradise]

“When it gets down to around 20 entries, just by entering, you have a one in five chance of being nominated,” said Bill Freimuth, the academy’s vice president for awards. “That’s not as competitive as we’d like these awards to be.”

Really? And what kind of competition is there for "best spoken word" (which encompasses everything from poets, historical recordings, comedy, drama, oh yeah and liberals' books on tape):

Grammy Awards of 2009
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood for An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore

Grammy Awards of 2008
Barack Obama for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Grammy Awards of 2007
Jimmy Carter for Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis; and
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee for With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (Tie)

Grammy Awards of 2006
Barack Obama for Dreams from My Father

Grammy Awards of 2005
Bill Clinton for My Life

Grammy Awards of 2004
Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Grammy Awards of 2003
Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven

Grammy Awards of 2002
Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

Grammy Awards of 2001
Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Grammy Awards of 2000
LeVar Burton for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Grammy Awards of 1999
Christopher Reeve for Still Me

Grammy Awards of 1998
Charles Kuralt for Charles Kuralt's Spring

Grammy Awards of 1997
Hillary Rodham Clinton for It Takes a Village

Grammy Awards of 1996
Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman

Grammy Awards of 1995
Henry Rollins for Get in the Van

Grammy Awards of 1994
Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning

Grammy Awards of 1993
Earvin "Magic" Johnson & Robert O'Keefe for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS

Grammy Awards of 1992
Ken Burns for The Civil War

Grammy Awards of 1991
George Burns for Gracie - A Love Story

Grammy Awards of 1990
Gilda Radner for It's Always Something

Grammy Awards of 1989
Jesse Jackson for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson

Grammy Awards of 1988
Garrison Keillor for Lake Wobegon Days

[AceMineral]

Nobody polka!

[SERKIT]

Obama will insist that the morning call to prayer, the most beautiful sound he has ever heard, will be a new category for the Emmies, in addition to the voice recordings of his own ramblings about a fictitious dream about a father.

[Army Air Corps]

I guess the Grammy folks have never heard Atomik Harmonik.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There’s a cable channel called RFD that airs “The Big Joe Polka Show.” I’ve never been a big fan but I enjoy Big Joe, the bands and the hundreds of couples dancing.

[tumblindice]

If ManBearPig gets Best Spoken Word Album for droning the audio book of An Inconvenient Truth, some band just needs to do, gee I dunno: `It Sure Is Gettin’ Warm In Here’ or sumpin.

[dfwgator]

When you call polka, "tejano", it get accolades.

THANK YOU!!!!

[Fresh Wind]

More proof that the Grammys are more about cash flow than quality.

[mylife]

So true.

And I would rather listen to Tejano or Brave Combo over 95% of the crap they play at the grammys.

[mylife]

Brave Combo~Elonia's Marbles

[mylife]

Brave Combo & Copper Box~Schtumpfer's Cumbia

[Yaelle]

I think this is because rivalries between east coast and west coast polka groups were causing too much violence.

[Daffynition]

[x]

Jan Lewan in prison, and now this.

When Rod Blagojevic makes his hip-hop polka debut, we'll know the genre is dead.

Blame it on those devastating East Coast vs. West Coast Polka Wars.

[GSWarrior]

Those Darn Accordians perform Baba O'Riley

[girlscout]

Polka Music Is Eliminated as Grammy Award Category

And well it should be.

[ADemocratNoMore]

May I suggest that you go to http://www.wjcu.org/ on Sundays from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT and listen to the “Polish Freight and Music Company”. They play mostly Cleveland-style polkas, & let me tell you, speaking as a lifelong music fan, I think that you will not regret the time spent.