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Kurt Browning Program Information


Program: Brickhouse
Artist: The Commodores
Choreographer: Michael Seibert/Clarence Ford

Performances: 1995-96 Stars on Ice
1995 Canadian Professional Championships
1995 World Professional Championships
1996 Canadian Stars on Ice
1996 Fox Rock 'n Roll Figure Skating Championship
1996 U.S. Professional Championships
1996 Celebration of a Life: Tribute to Sergei Grinkov
1996 Battle of the Sexes on Ice I
1997 Equal World Professional Championships
2001 Scott Hamilton and Friends Gala
2005 Marshalls U.S. Figure Skating Showcase
2006 Canadian Stars on Ice
2009 Battle of the Blades
2014 Family Skating Tribute (with Dillon)
2018 Revolution on Ice
2019 Kingston Feb Fest Imagination on Ice

Photos: http://www.kurtfiles.com/pics/index.php?search=brick+house
http://www.kurtfiles.com/pics/mittan/mittan_3.php#brickhouse
http://www.scratchspin.com/1997/worldpros97/browning1.html
http://www.skatestars.net/KB/KBBrickhouse.shtml
http://kurtfiles.com/pics/index.php?search=brickhouse

CDs: Commodores - Commodores
Commodores - Ultimate Collection
Commodores - Three Times A Lady
Commodores - Best of Commodores - Millenium
Commodores - Live
Commodores - Real Thing Series
Commodores - Universal Masters Collection
Commodores - Very Best Of
Commodores - All the Great Hits
Commodores - Anthology Series
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (motion picture soundtrack)
Undercover Brother Soundtrack

Musical clip(s): Brick House (YouTube)

Lyrics: Brick House

Chorus:
She's a brick----house
Mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick----house
The lady's stacked and that's a fact,
ain't holding nothing back.

She's a brick----house
She's the one, the only one,
who's built like a amazon
We're together everybody knows,
and here's how the story goes.

Verse:
1. She knows she got everything
a woman needs to get a man, yeah.
How can she use, the things she use
36-24-36, what a winning hand!

(Chorus)

Verse:
2. The clothes she wears, the sexy ways,
make an old man wish for younger days
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough to knock a man to his knees

(Chorus)

Bridge:
Shake it down, shake it down now (repeat)

Artist website: http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/Commodores.htm
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B8sn20r6ac48x

Random facts: Brickhouse marks Kurt's first successful year as a professional
skater, and was single-handedly responsible for the conversion of a
legion of fans to Kurt's skating. Fast, funky, with great dancing and
a lot of personality, Brickhouse helped Kurt win his first World Pro
championship in 1995. Fans will never forget Kurt's costume - white
satiny shirt over tight shiny blue pants ("Smile Charleston, you can
see your reflection in his pants!" - announcer, Fox Rock 'n Roll
Championships). Brickhouse probably also wins the award for the
program most often attributed to the wrong choreographer. Many fans
think that Sandra Bezic created the choreography, when in reality it
was Michael Seibert and Clarence Ford. Kurt revived the program in
2005 for the Marshalls Figure Skating Showcase, where he acted as
on-ice interviewer and host for most of the audience-voted show, and
then came out to do an exhibition of his own. For this performance,
he dubbed his own "thoughts" over the music, providing for a funny
soundtrack to the classic program. In 2014, Kurt skated to Brickhouse
with his mini-me, his younger son Dillon, who wore a mini version of
Kurt's original Brickhouse costume and showed off his own footwork and
dancing. In the 2015 Canadian Stars on Ice tour, which Kurt
choreographed, there was a men's number featuring all the guys skating
to Brickhouse alongside Kurt in shiny blue pants and white shirts.