Brave Combo land theme song for upcoming animated series based on NPR’s Car Talk

by PegNews wire

Brave Combo landed the title song for PBS' upcoming animated series, As the Wrench Turns. The series is based on NPR's Car Talk and will feature the escapades of the show's real life hosts, Click and Clack.

The theme song for Wrench will be Brave Combo's "Chicago Push polka" version of "The William Tell Overture." The series will premier on July 9, 2008 on PBS.

Click and Clack in real life

What's Chicago Push polka, you ask?

Posted by Erin, Source: Brave Combo

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Lori Young, says:

This just in! A link to the official PBS page of "As The Wrench Turns" that includes a little promo video: www.pbs.org/wrenchturns

Also, as a clarification, the link that is listed as a description of "Chicago Push Polka" is actually to a band called "The Chicago Push". While they were pioneers of the push, a better description from the "Polka Dictionary" on the Polish American Journal's website is, "a style used by the rhythm section that adds drive to polkas utilizing a jazz ride effect on cymbals along with a mixture of syncopated rhythms on the drum set as well as bellow shaking the accordion and "button pushing" of the concertina." Whew... Basically it is a slower, plodding rhythm which matches well with the more of a walking-style polka that they do in the north and midwest.