Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad ACCORDIONS....

Dec 17 20:33 UTC 1997

Ok, in keeping with the title of this conference:
        What is the worst song ever to be played on the accordion?
        What is the worst song you can imagine played on the accordion?
        Who is the worst accordionist ever?  (don't answer that!  ;-)
        That, and other good/bad things....

response 2 of 10:

Dec 24 05:34 UTC 1997

<evil grin>

response 4 of 10:

Jan 4 05:05 UTC 1998

HOw about Hector Berloiz's "Romeo & Juliette Overture?"  (sorry to give ya
Heck, Hector!)

response 6 of 10:

Jan 5 09:48 UTC 1998

   the "ode to joy."

response 8 of 10:

Sep 2 22:56 UTC 2006

Madonna's "Like A Virgin" played polka-style.

response 10 of 10:

Oct 1 19:30 UTC 2007

Not much oom-pah but lots of oomph at Edmonton accordion extravaganza
Published: Sunday, September 30, 2007 

EDMONTON - Love 'em or loathe 'em, there's no arguing that 40 accordions
in one room is a sound unique to the eardrums.

But the 200 people in the audience at the annual Accordion Extravaganza
in Edmonton on Sunday certainly appeared pleased with what was eased out
of those squeezeboxes by players from across Western Canada and the U.S.
Northwest.

And for those who think the rather cumbersome instrument belongs only to
polka kings and organ grinders, you're striking the wrong chord with
David Jerke.

"It's easy to play, difficult to master," said the president of the
Edmonton Accordion Society, which has been host to the fall festival for
12 straight years.

"They really don't understand what the accordion is all about. It's not
just an oom-pah-pah thing. You look at Cajun music, blue grass, big
band. Rock 'n roll even has a few button accordion players."

The three-day festival and competition certainly offered a musical
melange. There were waltzes, tender ballads, tangos, show tunes and a
rollicking - yes rollicking - version of In the Mood, featuring dozens
of "massed accordions" played in time if not always quite in tune.
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Oh, and some polkas to keep the traditionalists happy.

Jerke admits one of the biggest goals of the 150-member society is to
get young people interested in strapping on an instrument that kind of
looks like it can't decide what it wants to be. Keys? Must be a piano.
Chords? Maybe a guitar. Bellows? How about bagpipes.

But Michael Bridge, a 14-year-old up-and-coming player from Calgary,
doesn't need convincing. He's played the accordion since he was five
years old, has already cut a CD or two and writes some of his own music.

"It's actually a very expressive instrument," he says.
  The Canadian Press, 2007