I Love To Polka

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Personnel: Jimmy Sturr (clarinet, alto saxophone); Basia Ciborowski, Ella Kuzdzal, The Jordanaires (vocals); Frank Urbanovitch (vocals, fiddle); Lynn Marie Rink (vocals, button box accordion); Johnny Karas (vocals, tenor saxophone); Joe Magnuszewski, Dennis Polisky (clarinet, alto saxophone); Gene Bartkiewicz, Wally Czerniawski (accordion); Eric Parks, Al Noble, Ken Harbus, Dave Czohara (trumpet); Jeff Miller (piano); Mike Ralff (bass); Dennis Coyman (drums). Recorded at Clinton Studios, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Bill Shibilski. I LOVE TO POLKA won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. Despite Sturr's five Grammies, your actual U.S. polka -- native-born son of the naturalized recordings above -- doesn't get much "mainstream" attention. Pity! After all, it's the only White regional urban idiom in the U.S. Sturr does the real stuff, mostly in English, with some Polish lyrics, and with a very strongly Bohemian/Slovenian vocal sound -- check out Slavko Avsenik for its roots. Yes, it's disgracefully short, but that's a ripoff whose time has apparently come. ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music