User:JerryFriedman/The Pennsylvania Polka

Pennsylvania Polka is a dance song by Lester Lee and Zeke Manners. The first recording was by the Milt Herth Trio, released in March, 1942, as the B side of "Jersey Bounce". The Andrews Sisters recorded the song for their film Give Out, Sisters and released it before the film, in July, 1942. That record entered the Billboard Hot 100 on August 8 and stayed on the chart for three weeks, reaching number 17. Though that chart performance was not especially good for the Andrews Sisters at the time, the recording became one of the sisters' enduring hits. According to the polka historians Don Sosnoski and Charles Debevec, it is one of the few polka records that have sold a million copies in the U.S.

In popular culture
A complex series of transactions between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in 1940 and 1941 later became known as the Pennsylvania Polka.

In the film Groundhog Day, people in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, dance to Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks' recording of "Pennsylvania Polka" (1988) as part of the Groundhog Day festivities.