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Blazonczyk, Eddie

LC control no.n 90692147
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Personal name headingBlazonczyk, Eddie
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Variant(s)Bell, Eddy, 1941-2012
Bell, Eddie, 1941-2012
See alsoCorporate body: Bel-Aires (Musical group)
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Corporate body: Rockafellas (Musical group)
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Corporate body: Belvederes (Musical group : Eddie Blazonczyk)
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Founded corporate body of person: Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1941-07-12
Death date2012-05-21
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathPalos Heights (Ill.)
Field of activityPolkas
Profession or occupationRock musicians
Found inEddie Blazonczyk's Versatones. It's our 25th anniversary [SR] 1988: container (Eddie Blazonczyk, vocalist and band leader)
Bell, Eddie. Twinkletoes, 196-?: label (Eddy Bell)
Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones website, Aug. 15, 2000 (Eddie Blazonczyk; b. 1941, Chicago)
Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones website, viewed 2006-02-02: (went under the name of Eddie Bell)
New York times WWW site, May 25, 2012 (in obituary published May 24: Eddie Blazonczyk; b. July 12, 1941, Chicago; d. Monday [May 21, 2012], Palos Heights, Ill., aged 70; polka singer and bandleader who led bouncing, swaying, beer-hoisting dances for generations of Americans as one of that small genre's biggest fish)
Legacy.com, Mar. 10, 2021 (Eddie Blazonczyk; born July 12, 1941, in Chicago, died at age 70; polka musician; performed with his band Eddie Blazonczyk and the Versatones, formed in 1962; for a time he performed pop music with Mercury Records as "Eddie Bell and the Bel-Aires")
   <http://m.legacy.com/ns/eddie-blazonczyk-obituary/157757153>
Hillbilly blues, between 1990 and 2010?: insert (Eddy Bell & the Rockafellas; the Belvederes)
Ponderosa stomp website, Mar. 10, 2021 (Eddy Clearwater played guitar with polka drummer Eddie Blazonczyk (nee Eddie Bell) who moonlighted as a rock 'n' roller fronting Eddie Bell and the Bel-Aires, the Rockafellas and the Belvederes)
   <http://www.ponderosastomp.com/music_more/127/Eddy+%22The+Chief%22+Clearwater>