Over the Hump is the eighth regular studio album

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 by European-American pop group The Kelly Family

The Kelly Family

The Kelly Family is an Irish-American-European music group consisting of a multi-generational family, who play a repertoire of rock, pop and folk music. They have had chart and concert success in Europe and other parts of the world, especially in Germany, the Benelux countries, Scandinavia, Eastern...

. Co-produced by Hartmut Müller and Kathy Kelly, it was released in 1994 (see 1994 in music

1994 in music

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) throughout most of Europe

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.

The album reached number-one in Austria

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, Germany

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 and Switzerland

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, resulting into the group's breakthrough in German-speaking Europe

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 after years of minor successful studio and live releases

Live album

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. It also entered the top 30 in the Netherlands

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 and Norway

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 and sold more than 1.8 million copies within the first five month of its release. Over the Hump eventually sold more than 2.25 million copies in Germany alone, making it one of the biggest-selling albums of German origin to date.

Track listing

1. "Why Why Why" (lead vocals
   Lead vocalist
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   : Joey, Paddy) – 3:33
2. "Father's Nose" (lead vocals: Kathy) – 3:18
3. "First Time" (lead vocals: Patricia) – 4:14
4. "Baby Smile" (lead vocals: Barby) – 3:36
5. "Cover the Road" (lead vocals: Jimmy) – 3:59
6. "She's Crazy" (lead vocals: Barby) – 3:40
7. "Ares qui" (lead vocals: Paddy, Kathy, Jimmy) – 3:49
8. "Key to My Heart" (lead vocals: Paddy, Joey) – 2:57
9. "Roses of Red" (lead vocals: Maite) – 3:46
10. "Once in a While" (lead vocals: Angelo) – 3:47
11. "Break Free" (lead vocals: Barby) – 2:37
12. "An Angel
    An Angel
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    " (lead vocals: Paddy, Angelo) – 3:44
13. "The Wolf" (lead vocals: Joey) – 3:25
14. "Santa Maria" (lead vocals: Johnny, Angelo) – 3:07

Credits and personnel

• Hartmur Pfannmüller - drums
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• Johann Daansen - bass
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  , guitar
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  , keyboards
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Production

• Album producers: Dan Kelly, Kathy Kelly, Paddy Kelly
• Executive producer
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  s: Dan Kelly, Mike Ungefehr
• Writing: The Kelly Family
• Recording: Günther Kasper
• Mastering: Radu Marinescu, Pfannmüller

• Mixing
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  : Pfannmüller
  • Mixing assistance: Kathy Kelly, Ungefehr
• Photography
  Photography
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  : Thomas Stachelhaus
• Hairstyling: Uschi Ries
• Cover design: Dan Kelly & so.wie?.so!

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Austrian Albums Chart	1
Dutch Albums Chart Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	24
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	1
Hungarian Albums Chart Mahasz Mahasz is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992. Mahasz hands out the Hungarian Music Awards and maintains the music charts for Hungary....	3
Norwegian Albums Chart	26
Swiss Albums Chart	1

External links

• KellyFamily.de — official site