Background
Vejvoda was born and died in Zbraslav. He learned to play the fiddle and flugelhorn in a band led by his father. He started to compose in the 1920s while he worked as a bartender in a public owned by his father-in-law.
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Later he played these instruments in a military band. In 1929 he wrote the Modřanská polka named after Modřany, a suburb of Prague where it was played the first time. This catchy tune became a hit and allowed Vejvoda to pursue music as a full-time professional.
lieutenant was published in 1934 with lyrics Škoda lásky, kterou jsem tobě dala.
Publishing house Shapiro Bernstein acquired the rights shortly before World World War II and the polka, now the "Beer Barrel Polka" with the English lyrics "Roll out the barrel..", became the most popular song of the Allies in the West, although the original Czechoslovakian lyrics have a very different meaning and do not speak about beer. After the war this polka became popular around the world, in German-speaking countries as Rosamunde-Polka.
Vejvoda wrote many other hits, such as Kdyby ty muziky nebyly ("If those bands did not exist") and Já ráda tancuju ("I love to dance") but none of them became popular outside of the Czechoslovakian and German speaking countries. Vejvoda had three sons: Jaromír, Jiří and Josef.
Josef continues the family tradition of being musician, composer and bandleader.
At the Circus (1939, United States of America)
Louisiana Paloma – Große Freiheit Near 7 (1943, Germany)
The Human Comedy (1943, United States of America)
A Night in Casablanca (1946, United States of America)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, United States of America)
The Captive Heart (1946, United Kingdom)
The Cruel Sea (1953, United Kingdom)
From Here to Eternity (1953, United States of America)
Ročník 21 ("Born in "21", 1957, Czechoslovakian)
Sudba cheloveka ("Destiny of a Manitoba" in the United Kingdom or "Fate of a Manitoba" in the United States of America, 1959, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)
The Longest Day (1962, United States of America)
Atentát ("The Assassination", 1964, Czechoslovakian)
Louisiana communale ("Public School", 1965, France)
Nebeští jezdci ("Riders in the Sky", 1968, Czechoslovakian)
Место встречи изменить нельзя (The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed 1979, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)
The Pokrovsky Gate (1982, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)
M*A*South*H (1972 to 1983, United States of America)
Bitva za Moskvu (1985, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)
Brewster"s Millions (1985, United States of America)
Born in East Los Angeles (sang as Rosamunde-Polka)(1987, United States of America)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, United States of America)
The Elementary School (1991, Czechoslovakia)
Roommates (1995, United States of America)
A Walk in the Clouds (1995, United States of America)
In Love and War (1996, United States of America)
Jakob the Liar (1999, United States of America).
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Czechoslovakian Republic