''Almost Heaven'' is the tenth regular

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. Based on a concept by Dan Kelly, it was co-produced by Kathy and Paddy Kelly and released in 1996 throughout most of Europe. Following the major success of previous albums ''

Over the Hump ''Over the Hump'' is the eighth regular studio album by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. Co-produced by Hartmut Müller and Kathy Kelly and recorded at the Sound Studio N in Cologne, it was released on 26 August 1994 throughout most ...

'' and '' Christmas for All'' and the number-one single "I Can't Help Myself," the album debuted number-one in Austria, Germany and

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. It also entered the top 5 in the Netherlands and Norway and made it to the top 20 in Belgium. ''Almost Heaven'' eventually sold more than three million copies worldwide, making it the band's second biggest-selling release to date.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are taken from the album's liner notes. Instruments and performances * Johan Daansen – mouth harp * Angelo Kelly –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, percussion, washboard, timbales, vocals * Barby Kelly – vocals * Jimmy Kelly –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

, electric- zither, spoons, vocals * Joey Kelly – acoustic guitars, electric guitars, vocals * John Kelly – acoustic guitars, electric guitar, percussions, vocals * Kathy Kelly –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, keyboards,

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, piano, violin, vocals *

Maite Kelly Maite Star Kelly (born 4 December 1979) is a German-born Irish singer and actress. The second youngest child of The Kelly Family, she is the only one born in Germany. When she was younger, Kelly worked singing with her family. Later she started ...

– percussions, bass, vocals * Patricia Kelly –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

, vocals * Paddy Kelly –

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

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, guitars, keyboards,

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, tabla, percussions Technical and production * Album concept: Dan Kelly * Writing: The Kelly Family * Recording: Jan Shurman * Mastering: Georgi Nedelschev, Dieter Wegner * Mixing: Günther Kasper, G. Nedelschev, Kathy Kelly, Paddy Kelly, Max Volume * Engineers: Günther "Mr. Cool" Kasper, Max Carola, Max Volume, Jürgen Lusky * Engineering assistance: Alessandro Benedetti * Photography: Thomas Stachelhaus * Styling: Uschi Ries * Litho: RGI Dortmund Germany

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

KellyFamily.de
— official site {{Authority control 1996 albums The Kelly Family albums