He was a talented musician and a talented businessman. It has been the “cool” thing to make fun of anything middle class/white for decades, now. Folks need to quit “pizzing on the graves” of their forebears, whether it be polka/country/Welk music/whatever. Have some respect for some folks that were trying to entertain with at least a modicum of dignity and “class”, and actually had some talent to back it up. Back when the “adults” ran things....