It’s a double celebration for Cornwall’s largest independent brewer as they mark Cask Ale Week, celebrating the best of British Beer. In a sense, though, all of the shorts on Roll Out The Barrel are looking to the past: a quest for the 'real' Britain, preserved by the pub, a perpetual attempt to recover something lost (a task that preoccupies people now, seemingly as much as ever, in this bunting-choked year of 2012.). It's the hazy, half-forgotten memory of a thing which may or may not have ever been. This is Britain, as seen through a pint glass, blearily. Brave Combo and Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra made their own compositions of "Beer Barrel Polka". [ citation needed] https://www.ipscuba.net/archivo-espacios/nuestra-america/memoria/voces-mexicanas-triunfan-en-la-habana-entre-1938-y-1958/ The barrel store owner had probably got to hear about this over the grapevine. I’d suspect that both he and Dad enjoyed the chat they had. Both East enders: with a weakness for this sort of situation.

The authors of the English lyrics were Lew Brown and Wladimir Timm. Meanwhile, the song was recorded and played by many others such as The Andrews Sisters in 1939, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Bobby Vinton, Billie Holiday, and Joe Patek, who sold over a million copies of his album "Beer Barrel Polka". [5] I only heard about their conversation at secondhand. It seems to have gone rather upon these lines: Aged seventeen, fed-up with starving, he’d enlisted. His timing a shade unfortunate. Namely, June 1914. Found himself in a remote outpost called Exeter, Private Copley, James: 6068 Devon Rgt. For a few weeks, wore the flash red tunic and spiked helmet of that era. It was some time after this that my Dad decided to organize street A.R.P. patrols. The phrases ‘bolting horses’ and ‘stable door’ do spring to mind perhaps. But then, during those hectic days, the fact that you’d been bombed once was no guarantee that you couldn’t be again. A parodic version in 1940 is used as despedida (closure) for Uruguayan murga performers Línea Maginot. [ citation needed]

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Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers plays a variation of this song in the 1939 movie At the Circus and later reprised it in 1946’s A Night in Casablanca. [ citation needed]

The owner was stubborn. Dad came away barrelless and angry, at what he considered a mean injustice. It wasn’t just the money. There was a lot of pride, principle at stake now. The rather flexible moral code of that time and area demanded that barrels must now be pinched.Carl Davis / The Luxemburg Radio Symphony Orchestra – Intolerance (Original Film Score) (1990, CD) , retrieved 2021-10-06 We’ll never know. Perhaps some Luftwaffe gent did mistake those thousands of empty fifty-gallon drums for a tempting oil refinery. In 2005 the tune of "Beer Barrel Polka" became the main inspiration for the theme tune for Marvel Comics's The Fantastic Four movie and can be heard throughout. [ citation needed]