Jah, it's a small world, aina?

In 1972, the Australian band New World recorded a certain (maudlin and over-produced) song which hit the top 40 Australia.  In 1976, the English band Smokie recorded their version of the song, which was a hit throughout Europe.  It sounded a bit like a Neil Diamond song.    It became the fashion in a club called Gompie in the Netherlands for the DJ to turn down the volume after the refrain so that the audience could shout a reply including an obscenity.  After visiting the club a record producer promptly signed up the DJ to record a new version including the shouted reply.  It was such a hit that Smokie recorded their own (unfunny) version featuring an (unfunny) comedian shouting out the replies.  A year later, Jimmy Sturr (a polka bandleader from New York) recorded a polka version of the song, which toned down the obscenity, and bounced up the beat.  This version was picked up by polka bands across Wisconsin and (presumably, the world (including the Jerry Schneider Band of Chilton Wisconsin - see below).  And that’s why visitors to the Wisconsin Micro-brewers Beer Fest in Chilton are frequently heard to shout “Alice? Who the hell is Alice?”