Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album

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Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album
Brave Combo, Let's Kiss album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Brave Combo
ReleasedOctober 28, 2004
Genre Polka
Length32:04
Label Dentone Records
Producer Carl Finch
Bubba Hernandez
Brave Combo chronology
Box of Ghosts
(2003)		Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album
(2004)		 Holidays
(2005)

Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album is an album by the American polka band Brave Combo, released through Dentone Records on October 28, 2004. [1] In 2005, the album won Brave Combo the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. [2]

The polka is originally a Bohemian dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. The polka remains a popular folk music genre in many European countries, and is performed by folk artists in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Finland, and to a lesser extent in Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Local varieties of this dance are also found in the other Nordic countries, Spain's Basque Country, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, Canada and the United States.

Brave Combo polka/rock/worldbeat band based in Denton, Texas

Brave Combo is a polka/rock/worldbeat band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist/keyboardist/accordionist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than thirty-five years. Their music, both originals and covers, incorporates a number of dance styles, mostly polka, but also some Latin American and Caribbean styles like norteño, salsa, rumba, cha-cha-cha, choro, samba, two-step, cumbia, charanga, merengue, ska, etc.

Grammy Award Accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States

A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. The Grammys are the second of the Big Three major music awards held annually.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dutch Hornpipe" (Full Band) (Schottische) – 2:55
  2. "Red River Valley" (Polka) – 3:01
  3. "Bumble Bee" (Polka) (Eddie Fullylove) – 2:31
  4. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (Polka) – 2:09
  5. "Civilized" (Waltz) (Carl Finch) – 3:16
  6. "Starlight" (Polka) (Joe Oberaitis) – 2:15
  7. "El Golpe Traidor" (Polka) (Remberto López Garza) – 3:06
  8. "Let's Kiss" (Csárdás) – 2:55
  9. "Willkommen Oktoberfest" (Polka) (Finch) – 2:53
  10. "Acariciame" (Polka) (Bubba Hernandez) – 2:59
  11. "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (Polka) (Mack David) – 2:43
  12. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (Oberek) – 2:53
  13. "Aja Sam" (Polka) – 3:04
  14. "The Simpsons" (Polka) (Danny Elfman) – 1:08
  15. "Dutch Hornpipe" (Dub Version) (Schottische) – 2:52

Personnel

Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning the period between the early 1940s and the early 1970s. David was credited with writing lyrics or music or both for over one thousand songs. He was particularly well known for his work on the Disney films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, and for the mostly-English lyrics through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en rose" gained much of its familiarity among native speakers of English.

Carl Finch American musician

Carl Finch is a guitarist, keyboardist, accordionist, vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Grammy-winning polka/dance band Brave Combo in 1979 in Denton, Texas.

Matt Pence American record producer and drummer

Matthew Louis Pence is an American recording engineer, producer, drummer. He owns and manages The Echo Lab studio in Denton, Texas.

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References

  1. ↑ "Let's Kiss". Allmusic . Retrieved October 17, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Pre-telecast Grammy Award winners". USA Today . February 13, 2005. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
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