Beer Barrel Polka - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• The song became a signature song of well-known entertainer Liberace.
• Since the 1970s, it (usually the Frankie Yankovic version) has been played during the seventh inning stretch at Milwaukee Brewers baseball games, as well as becoming one of the state of Wisconsin's unofficial state songs as it is also played at numerous University of Wisconsin sporting events, as well as Green Bay Packers home games, and Milwaukee Panthers basketball games, including after every home win.
• The Australian Rugby League Football Club, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks has a club song known as 'Sharks Forever' which is sung to the tune of Beer Barrel Polka.
• Brave Combo and Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra made their own compositions of "Beer Barrel Polka".
• Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman features a recording of a young girl whistling this song.
• Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers playes a variation of this song in the movie At the Circus and A Night in Casablanca.
• The Wiggles sang this song on their album and video Sailing Around the World.
• In the Disney movie The North Avenue Irregulars, a scene features a tape recorder playing The Andrews Sisters' version of the song while Patsy Kelly, Barbara Harris, and Virginia Capers sing along with it.
• Bobby Vinton recorded "Beer Barrel Polka" in 1975.
• In an episode of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, the Queen of England sings a portion of the song with a piano accompaniment.
• In an episode of The Critic, a trained bear plays the song for Jay Sherman, the critic, trying to stay a part of his show.