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It seems only fitting that the 2009 release by Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra is entitled Polka Cola, The Music That Refreshes, although the band hasn't been around as long as the caramel-colored soft drink in the red can. Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra is as American and as popular as that famous beverage. Since the ripe age of 13, Jimmy has been performing polkas; now five decades later he is "America's Foremost Polka Ambassador". Jimmy and his band of musicians continue to prove year after year why they are #1 polka entertainers, having just won their 18th Grammy Award.
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra criss-cross the country, performing in just about every state in the union approximately 44 weeks a year. You'll find them on a cruise ship one week, in Europe the next, at a country fair in the middle of America, or on national TV every week on the RFD Network, performing on the highly rated Jimmy Sturr Show. Polka Cola catapults Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra into the mainstream of American music with 13 tracks, featuring many favorites with fresh new arrangement, plus originals that are destined to become standards in the industry.
Together with Polka Hall of Famer Johnny Karas and the band's stick of dynamites, Fiddlin' Frankie Urbanovitch along with the newest member, Kevin Krauth, on this year's disc is Whispering Bill Anderson, a member of Nashville's prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame and a member of the Grand Ol' Opry since 1961. He sings about the good times he finds in "PolkaTown", and he returns later in a ballad that showcases his smooth vocal talents proving why he is is a million-selling recording artist many times over.
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra are the most dangerous of groups in the music business today: skilled musicians and a marketing tactician, who is the sheer delight of his fans, consistently delivers the goods. But a caveat: if you see and experience the group in person, you may not be prepared to handle all the fun, the excitement, or the sheer joy that Jimmy and his brand will bring you. Those of us who've worked with them know they are the epitome of professionalism, on and off the stage. What you see if what you get, there is nothing phony about Jimmy, the band, or his organization. Just like Polka Cola, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra are "the real thing".
Keith G. Stras - Most listened to polka radio personality in America
Selections:
1. Round and Round 3:06
2. Red Apple 2:42
3. Hot Rod Lincoln 3:58
4. Paper Doll 2:36
5. Snow Is On the Roses 2:59
6. Polka Cola 2:35
7. Why, Because I Love You 2:36
8. Mr Bartender 2:47
9. Aristocrat 3:41
10. Press One for English 3:12
11. Godfather 2:37
12. I Know Somebody Who Would 3:04
13. Polkatown 2:48
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Features
- Compact Disc
- 13 Selections
- Total Time 38:22
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