"[2] He released 30 singles and 20 LPs/CDs,[3] wrote over 60 songs, and sold approximately one million records in his career.
[2][3] Meisner began playing polka music in a band as an 11-year-old after receiving his first accordion as an 8-year-old.
[2] Meisner and his band began to be noticed around Milwaukee after they appeared on the Fritz the Plumber Radio Show.
[6] Meisner was married to Judith Ann Kutz and the couple had three children (Steve, Daniel, and Michele Bush) before divorcing.
[4] He suffered from alcoholism after spending so much time performing in bars, but he became sober in his 40s and alcohol-free for the final 20 years of his life.