Top 100 ACCORDION tracks

28. Those Darn Accordions - The Story of Lawrence Welk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPtjPfgXRMA

27. The Wallets - (I Wanna Go To) Hollywood (not the best example of why I loved these guys, but there's not much on youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTQr1Fi7tXU&feature=related

26. Brave Combo - Hosa Dyna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-NaSJ15uU

25. Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds (a gorgeous song -- accordion right at the beginning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnWAkOGxK0

That's nice, thanks.

24. Machinery Hill - Saint Marie of the Trailers

This Twin Cities band has been playing their off-kilter Americana at sporadic, under-the-radar gigs for years. (Next show 7/17!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1qxtt1R1z0&feature=related

Surely Scan Tester owns this thread, but I wouldn't want to pick a single track - the cumulative effect is magnificent tho. Just listen to I Never Played So Many Posh Dances.

concertina, fuck it.

23. Teddy Randazzo and the Three Chuckles - Sinnamon Sinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyO-nJe-cdQ&feature=related

From The Girl Can't Help It, one of my favorite movies ever.

Cinnamon, dammit.

22. Bruce Springsteen - 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

Aki Peltonen - Radio Banana - specifically track #3

Geoff Berner, y'all...

21. Geoff Berner - Whiskey Rabbi

20. Angeles Azules - Como te voy a olvidar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeiZif1uXU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruuFpmOkfys

oops ethat was the wrong link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJePDKmNcrw

19 . Celso Piña - Cumbia Campanera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWES25xP_Bg

18. Los Tigrillos - Mira Oye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTblmzqR-Ok

17. Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z3YrHJ1sU

16. Luis Enrique Martinez - Jardin de Fundacion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU4c45d3ZZo

15. Diomedes Diaz - Las Notas de Juancho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqogtGedn8Q

14. Viljo Vesterinen & Dallapé-orkesteri: Säkkijärven Polkka (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZx1zl_sVTI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4kkij%C3%A4rven_polkka

"During the Continuation War, the Finnish Army discovered that the retreating Soviets had scattered radio-controlled mines throughout the re-captured city of Viipuri. These mines were set off when a three-note chord was played on the frequency the radio was tuned to, causing three tuning forks (of which each mine had a unique combination) to vibrate at once. Once the Army and Yleisradio experts discovered how the mines worked, a Yleisradio mobile transmitter was brought to Viipuri, and Vesterinen's polka was played on the same frequencies the mines used. They played the song continuously from August 1941 until 2.February 1942, 1 500 times. It had been calculated that it would take at least three months for the batteries of the mines to be empty."