CLEVELAND, Ohio - There have been bigger stars from Cleveland, and there have been more recent stars. But there haven't been any more truly "Cleveland" stars than Frankie Yankovic. Born July 28, 1915, ...

Frankie Yankovic had humble roots in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood before earning the title of “America’s Polka King.” The city, in turn, has not forgotten the national acclaim Yankovic brought ...

While looking through the 2,000-plus record collection in the home of Kermit Serfass, one sees a name quite a bit – that of Frank Yankovic, the popular polka bandleader from Cleveland, Ohio. The ...

EUCLID -- Former Euclid resident, the late "Polka King" Frankie Yankovic, will be honored Tuesday (Aug. 14) when the intersection at East 152nd Street and Waterloo Road in Cleveland is designated ...

CLEVELAND - Although the evening is cold and snowy, a crowd of music lovers has ignored the dire weather forecast and flocked to the city's west side. The disc jockey inside the Happy Dog bar in the ...

As Veterans Day approaches, Cleveland Grays Armory is honoring one of the city’s most recognizable TV personalities — and shining a light on a side of his life perhaps not many viewers knew. On ...

Although the popularity of polka has waned in the last couple of decades, the genre is far from dead in the Northland. In fact, Duluthian Ray Ahlgren was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at ...

In Slavic and German communities along the U.S. “polka circuit,” nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in ...