Western New York Accordion Club

Jimmy Stewart

Jimmy Stuart in Night Passage (1957)

(Search Youtube under: “James_Stewart Acordeonista”

for a Spanish version of his accordion skills)

John Lennon

 Elvis Presley

Cheryl Crow

 Ginger Rogers

Barry Manilow

Billy Joel

Weird Al Yankovic [no relation to Frankie Yankovic]

Myron Floren and Lawrence Welk

Steve Urekel [actor Jaleel White]

Phoebe Legere

Julieta Venages (Mexican Singer/Accordionist)

Fred Astaire in Flying Home to Rio (1933). Fred plays an accordion player in a local band. (And he really plays.)

Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Clilnt takes up the accordion so he can use the case to hide the tunnel he is digging for his escape.

  Mary Steenburgen in The Grass Harp (1996)

Connie Francis (Age 12)

Connie Francis after she stopped playing the accordion

Idi Amin

Desi Arnaz serenading Lucy in Forever Darling (1956)

Stan Laurel on the concertina in The Big Noise (1944)

 Dan Akroyd plays a Scandelli in Christmas with the Kranks(2004)

Before he was a Country Western Star and Sausage King, Jimmy Dean played the accordion.

Tina Fay

Rachel Weisz plays a Hohner Gola in The Brothers Bloom (2008)

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev plays the concertina while Vladimir Putin sides with the tambourine (2010)

Sophia Loren

[Gary Lewis and the Playboys -- 1964]

[Bill Haley and the Comets. John Grande plays the accordion.]

Bruce Springstein with Danny Federici

Bing Crosby plays a button accordion in Top O' The Morning (1949). He plays a private investigator accused of stealing the Blarney Stone. 

Drew Carey

 Leave it to Beaver (Beaver orders a mail-order accordion but can't afford the postage to return it.)

 Christina Hendricks in Mad Men

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