Touched by a Polka
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Touched by a Polka is an album by Jimmy Sturr
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...

 on August 15, 2000. In 2001, 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

  1. "Tic Toc" – 3:13
  2. "If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
    If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
    "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" is a 1950 song by Lefty Frizzell, who co-wrote the song with Jim Beck, and it was his debut single. The single stayed at No. 1 for three weeks on the Most Played C&W Jukebox Records and peaked at number two on the C&W Best Seller list. The Frizell...

    " (Jim Beck, Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell , born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty...

    ) – 2:10
  3. "Melody" (Sturr) – 2:53
  4. "St. Patty's Polka Melody" – 4:00
  5. "If I Could Catch a Rainbow" (Sturr, Will) – 2:08
  6. "San Antonio Rose
    New San Antonio Rose
    "San Antonio Rose"/"New San Antonio Rose" was the signature song of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. "San Antonio Rose" was an instrumental song written by Bob Wills, who first recorded it with the Playboys in 1938. Band members added lyrics and it was retitled "New San Antonio Rose"...

    " (Bob Wills
    Bob Wills
    James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...

    ) – 3:14
  7. "Don't Cry Daddy" (Wojnarowski) – 3:08
  8. "Little Girl of Mine" (Corcoran) – 3:30
  9. "Thibodeaux and His Cajun Band" (Newman) – 2:07
  10. "Time Changes Everything
    Time Changes Everything (song)
    "Time Changes Everything" is a Western swing standard written by Tommy Duncan, the long-time vocalist with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys. Written as a ballad, the lyrics tell of a failed romance and of the hurt that has healed. Each verse ends with:...

    " (Tommy Duncan
    Tommy Duncan
    Thomas Elmer Duncan , better known as Tommy Duncan, was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys...

    ) – 2:24

Personnel

  • Doyle Brown – visual coordinator
  • Dennis Coyman – drums
  • Wally Czerniawski – accordion
  • Ray DeBrown – arranger
  • Nick Devito – clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Mel Ellis – performer
  • Geoffrey Himes – liner notes
  • Doug Howard – engineer
  • Ken Irwin – mixing engineer
  • The Jordanaires – backing vocals
  • Johnny Karas – tenor saxophone, vocals

  • Dr. Toby Mountain – mastering
  • Al Noble – trumpet
  • Dermot O'Brien – vocals
  • Eric Parks – trumpet
  • Tom Pick – producer, engineer, mixing engineer
  • Keith Slattery – piano
  • Jimmy Sturr
    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...

    – arranger, producer, mixing engineer
  • Mel Tillis – vocals
  • Frank Urbanovitch – fiddle, vocals
  • Henry Will – arranger
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