DESCRIPTION:
Written by Don Freeburg & Arlin Snesrud. Featuring "Skeets" Langley, Accordion; Arlin Snesrud, Bass & Arrangements; Bob Mendenhall, Clarinet; Reuben Ristrom, Guitar. The other side is "How Vikings Football Came To Minnesota".

For more than twenty years, this dynamic radio team has been entertaining the largest radio audience in the upper Midwest. Roger Erickson’s mastery of the Scandahoovian dialect, coupled with Charlie Boone’s theater background, make them the perfect pair to do the first commercial recording of Don Freeburg’s “The Lutefisk Lament”.

Since it was first aired over WCCO Radio in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the switchboards lit up with requests to hear it again. Whether or not you have tried the lye-soaked delicacy called “lutefisk”, you will enjoy this superb work of Scandinavian dialect humor.

Did Viking explorers visit Minnesota? Boone & Erickson’s comic scenario may not solve the riddle of the runestone, but does suggest how football came to the New World.

-Mike Sevig & Don Freeburg