Polka dot arrangements by Gil Evans and others and notable recordings by Lester Young, Sarah Vaughn and many others. The 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical film The Gang's All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, featured a large production number "The Polka-Dot Polka". The song was written by Harry Warren and Leo Robin, referencing the 19th Century Polka Dot craze in the lyric, and sang by Alice Faye with the Busby Berkeley dancers. Polka dot Polka dot is a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size. Polka dots are most commonly seen on children's clothing, toys,
Polka in America, having won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. "Polka Varieties" was an hour-long television program of polka music originating from Cleveland, Ohio. The show aired in several U.S. cities, and ran from 1956 until 1983. At that time, it was the only television program for this type of music in the US. (There were a number of polka shows originating from the Buffalo Niagara Region in the 1960s, including WKBW-TV's "Polka Time", which was hosted for its first half-year on air by Frankie Yankovic, and cross-border station CHCH-TV's "Polka