(BMI) has awarded JIMMY STURR & HIS ORCHESTRA its most valued award, the Commendation of Excellence.

The fact that JIMMY STURR AND HIS ORCHESTRA is on the Top Ten list of the All-time Grammy Awards, has won eighteen Grammy Awards and has received more consecutive Grammy nominations that anyone in the history of musical awards has made the music industry sit up and take notice. ​And what an Orchestra it is! JIMMY STURR AND HIS ORCHESTA has over 106 recordings the excellence of these recordings has been recognized and rewarded throughout the very competitive music industry. Sturr is the fellow in front of the orchestra. ​The reigning king of the field is a good looking, smiling charmer with brown hair, blues eyes and charismatic rays emanating from his presence. In essence, this phenomenon was the rising popularity of JIMMY STURR as the hottest musical attraction in the polka music field. At the time that rock was reaching its crescendo, and in the era when Country was dazzling the nation, a strange phenomenon was taking place.