Top of the World (Jimmy Sturr album)
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Top of the World is an album by Jimmy Sturr
, released through Rounder Records
in 2002. In 2003, the album won Sturr the Grammy Award
for Best Polka Album
.
Jimmy Sturr
James W. "Jimmy" Sturr, Jr. is a polka musician, trumpeter/clarinetist/saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. Sturr's orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards, and has acquired...
, released through Rounder Records
Rounder Records
Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...
in 2002. In 2003, the album won Sturr the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Polka Album
Grammy Award for Best Polka Album
The Grammy Award for Best Polka Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality polka albums...
.
Track listing
- "Top of the World" [Polka] (Bettis, Carpenter) – 3:27
- "City of New Orleans" [Polka] (Goodman) – 3:24
- "Streamline" [Polka] (Mayall, Mocarski) – 3:53
- "The Little Shoemaker" [Polka] – 2:11
- "Guacamole" [Polka] (Fender, Levy, Meyers) – 2:55
- "Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair" [Waltz] (Carvell) – 3:26
- "This Land Is Your Land" [Polka] (Guthrie) – 2:35
- "Metropole" [Polka] – 2:11
- "No Fun Being Old" [Polka] (Karnish) – 3:37
- "Patriotic Polka" [Polka] – 3:12
- "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" [Polka] (Crain, Daniels, DeGregorio, Edwards) – 3:36
- "Polka Paradise" [Polka] (Forsythe, Pick) – 1:48
- "God Bless America Again" [Ballad] (Bare, Hawkins) – 2:49
Personnel
- Mark Bernstein – Bass
- Mark Capps – Engineer
- Dennis Coyman – Drums
- Tom Crain – Composer
- Wally Czerniawski – Accordion
- Charlie Daniels – Composer
- Ray DeBrown – Arranger
- Taz DeGregorio – Composer
- Nick Devito – Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
- Joe Donofrio – Mixing
- Fred Edwards – Composer
- Nancy Given – Design
- Ken Harbus – Arranger, Trumpet
- Charlie Hayward – Composer
- Ken Irwin – Mixing, Producer
- Johnny Karas – Sax (Tenor), Vocals
- James Marshall – Composer
- John Mayall – Composer
- Dr. Toby Mountain – Mastering
- Al Noble – Trumpet
- Louis Dean Nunley – Vocals (Background)
- Eric Parks – Trumpet
- Al Piatkowski – Accordion
- Tom Pick – Engineer, Mixing, Producer
- David Royko – Liner Notes
- Keith Slattery – Arranger, Piano
- Gerry Stavisky – Clarinet
- Gordon Stoker – Vocals (Background)
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