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.
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) Jimmy Sturr – Mixing, Narrator, Photography, Producer Frank Urbanovitch – Arranger, Fiddle, Vocals Jeremy Welch – Engineer Henry Will – Arranger Curtis Young – Vocals (Background) Arlo Guthrie Rhonda Vincent
See also Polka in the United States
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